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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] nonsense is insupportable. Whitehead is but a little m...Samuel Johnson William Whitehead[poem on Garrick]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] nonsense is insupportable. Whitehead is but a little m...James Boswell William Whitehead[poem on Garrick]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'"Crossing the Bar" was written in my father's eighty-first year, on a day in October when we came from Aldworth to Farringford. Before reaching Farringford he had the Mo...Hallam Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Crossing the Bar'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'"Currer Bell" [Charlotte Bronte] told me [Harriet Martineau] that she had read with astonishment those parts of "Household Education" which relate my own experience. It...Charlotte Bronte Harriet MartineauHousehold EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Deck not with Gems"' 'Deck not with gems that lovely form forme/...'Julia Thomas Haynes BaylyDeck Not With GemsPrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's "Natalie" (1850).'Mary Gladstone Julia KavanaghNataliePrint: Book
1800-1849'"Discipline" people tell me to read, but I have no stomach to it, I believe because of the [underlined] name [end underlining], fool that I am! - But one thing is, I did...Sarah Harriet Burney Mary BruntonSelf ControlPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Do you know Dr. Burney, Ma'am?" said Mr Thrale. "No Sir, but I know his Book. I think it's vastly pretty;"'Victoria Kynaston Charles Burney'Present State of Music in France and Italy' or 'G...Print: Book
1800-1849'"drudge like Selden days & nights And in the Endless labour die"'.Lady Caroline Lamb Richard BentleyA Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of O...Print: Book
1850-1899'"Esmond" appears to me [Harriet Martineau] [italics]the [end italics] book of the century, in its department. I have read it three times; and each time with new wonder ...Harriet Martineau William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of Henry Esmond EsqPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to finish it. Sir Joshua Reynolds did as much on a day when he had no time to ...Edmund Burke Frances BurneyEvelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to finish it. Sir Joshua Reynolds did as much on a day when he had no time to ...Sir Joshua Reynolds Frances BurneyEvelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Face" is one of his favourite books; so there. He simply loves it. Also your book on your father.'Harry Grant Harold NicolsonPublic FacesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'"Flimsy novel language disgusts" her; and she "perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common novels one now meets with, like that between roast b...Louisa, Lady Stuart Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Forget Thee?" By the Rev John Moultrie [transcript of poem].Mary Groom Rev. John MoultrieForget Thee?Unknown
1900-1945'"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.'Joseph Conrad unknown  Print: Book
1850-1899'"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'"Friedrich".'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1800-1849'"Gazette" with details of victory over Dupont, +c'William Windham [n/a]GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of th...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBride of AbydosPrint: Book


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