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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'From time to time, Lang writes charming articles in the "Daily News": witness one, a week or so past, on Montaigne: it was a little gem.' Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew Lang[article on Montaigne]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.'Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew LangFrench Peasant Songs.Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Lang's Library is very pleasant reading.'Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew LangThe LibraryPrint: Book
1900-1945'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a gener...Charles Evans Andrew LangStory of Joan of Arc, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a gener...Charles Evans Andrew LangStory of Joan of Arc, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I inclose [sic] a review which Lang sent me, presumably his own and presumably from the Daily News.'Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew Lang[review of New Arabian Nights in Daily News]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Andrew LangLectures on LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'I... am going through an English literature of Kirk's by Andrew Lang. Lang is always charming whatever he does - or "did" as we must unfortunately say, and this book i...Clive Staples Lewis Andrew LangHistory of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Sw...Print: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge]'s letter to S[ara] H[utchinson] of May 1807 contained a transcription of Marvell's "On a Drop of Dew".'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Andrew MarvellOn a Drop of DewUnknown
1800-1849'Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.'William Wordsworth Andrew MarvellHoratian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, ...Unknown
1600-1699'And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discourse; to White-hall towards night, and there he did l...Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThird Advice to a paynterManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport; and endeed are very witty'Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThe second and third advice to a painter, for draw...Print: Book
1600-1699'Only, here I met with a fourth "Advice to the painter", upon the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the war, that made my heart ake to read, it being too sha...Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellDirections to a painter for describing our naval b...Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was there so divinely happy & pressed with ideas [...] So I ...Virginia Woolf Andrew MarvellunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the letters "because he feels they will probably annoy h...Basil Nicholson Andrew Marvell[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Andrew Marvell'The Emigrant's Song'Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Andrew Marvell'To His Coy MistressUnknown
1800-1849'Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal? Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a very unpalatable morsel: I know not whether you will...Thomas Carlyle Andrew UreReview of 'Description of Instruments, Designed fo...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Read "Famous Modern Battles" by [ ]. Ev. Bridge.'William Thomas Andrew Hilliard AtteridgeFamous Modern BattlesPrint: Book
1850-1899'There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, and I was early set to read Jukes aloud to them. I d...Edmund Gosse Andrew John JukesThe law of the offerings in LeviticusPrint: Book


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