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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great...Sarah Harriet Burney Giovanni GiraudCommediePrint: Book
1800-1849'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great...Sarah Harriet Burney Alberto NotaCommediePrint: Book
1800-1849'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I think it may do very well for reading out, which I be...Sydney Smith [Captain] GollowninRecollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I think it may do very well for reading out, which I be...Sydney Smith Daniel DefoeColonel Jack - The History and Remarkable Life Of ...Print: Book
1850-1899'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of human experience in them, - the troubles of this lif...Margaret Oliphant Edward CairdSermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should have little to complain of. It is wonderfully fine...Margaret Oliphant George ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Book
1600-1699'il resolut de lire encore l'Evangile' (he resolved to read the Gospel again): is converted to Christianity and baptised in London.'Le Juif baptise' (The Baptised Jew) BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Illustrative readings from various [Russian] authors were given by members which elicited a considerable amount of discussion'.Members of the XII Book Club [books about Russia or by Russians]Print: Book
1850-1899'Imagine my delight to find a footnote in Capefigs thus conceived ... Immediately after, Capefigues talks of la grande flotte de Dracke.'Robert Louis Stevenson Jean Baptise Honore Raymond CapefigueHistoire de la Reforme, de la Ligue, et du Regne d...Print: Book
1850-1899'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan H...Edward Morgan Forster Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan H...Edward Morgan Forster George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend' 'When from the heart where sorrow sits/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Impromptu, In ReplyUnknown
1800-1849'In "Briery Creek," I [Harriet Martineau] indulged my life-long sentiment of admiration and love fo Dr. Priestley, by making him, under a thin disguise, the hero of my ta...Lady Durham newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In "Guns and Butter" by Bruce-Lockhart (written October 1938), he says: "To anyone who knows the East, it was already clear that, whoever won the war between Japan and C...Thomas Kitching R.H. Bruce-LockhartGuns and ButterPrint: Book
1850-1899'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerique”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have ...Robert Louis Stevenson Illustrated London NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerisque”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have...Robert Louis Stevenson The GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'John Ruskin [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes on Political Science, she found for her quotation pag...Winifred Holtby Thomas HobbesThe LeviathanPrint: Book
1900-1945'In "The Syonan Times" there is a very anti-British speech by S.C. Goho - the Indians are not supporting the Indian Independence League.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper


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