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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'It is very difficult to assess the poetry of De la Mare. Compared with Davies and Housman (for example), he is the most comprehensive poet of the three, and has definite...William Soutar Walter De La Mare[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'it is very eloquent & I wish the Tories would promote him'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth James Shergold BooneOn the Need of Christianity to CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Campden Hill.'Ford Madox Ford [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'It is very likely that I may send you some Mathematical thing or other, seeing I have got Bossut's history of mathematics, at this time, where perhaps there may be somet...Thomas Carlyle Charles BossutEssai sur l'histoire generale des mathematiquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the particular quality of this translation.'
[Henc...		Joseph Conrad François-Marie Arouet VoltaireCandidePrint: Book
1800-1849'It luckily happened that “Kehama” was on board, and that many of the party, at my recommendation, had become familiar with it during the voyage. By the way, what a vast ...Unknown passengers aboard East Indiaman Thomas Grenville, Ramsgate-Calcutta, total duration of voyage June-October 1823Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'It made me think of a poem that our german professor used to read us in class. Ja, das war zum letzenmal/ Das, wir beide, arm in arme/ unter einem Schirm gebogen. --/ A...Katherine Mansfield Edward MorikeErinerung - an C.N.Unknown
1900-1945'It makes me feel lonely at times when I read the letters in the Cam. News from some of the Aber. boys, as they all seem to have some Aber. boys with them but I'm on my o...Fred Hollin Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first li...Arnold Bennett W.D. HowellsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage wilderness of the Five Towns, and that the first li...Arnold Bennett Russell LowellunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It may interest you to know that I have at last succeeded in meeting an Aber boy and one too whose name I note in the last issue of the Cambrian News acknowledging a gif...E. C. Benson Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'It must be labour that makes things valuable Princes & Lords may flourish and may fade But a bold Peasantry, the Country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplie...Robert Sharp Oliver GoldsmithThe Deserted VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849'It must have been during this year [1823] that I began to read a work which gave me much and unalloyed pleasure: this was "The Modern Traveller", edited by Mr. Conder. I...Thomas Carter Josiah ConderThe Modern Traveller, a Description of the Various...Print: Book
1900-1945'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But] you will admit that Bourne's writing in its slight...Joseph Conrad George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt]The Ascending EffortPrint: Book
1700-1799'It now only remains for me to walk worthy of that vocation to which I am called. Let me do so in the very manner in which the Apostle, whose words I have now been readin...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]Bible [ Paul to the Ephesians, Ch 4]Print: Book
1850-1899'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went through the whole. It suggested to me innumerable sp...Leslie Stephen Dante AlighieriunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes of knowledge, Rumfords Essays, Newton ['s] Institut...Thomas Carlyle Sir Isaac NewtonInstitutesPrint: Book
1900-1945'It only remains for me to add that I am on page 24 of "Ivan the Terrible"; that is to say that I have been comforted 24 times by complete forgetfulness of my difficultie...Joseph Conrad Kazimierz WaliszewskiIvan le Terrible Print: Book
1800-1849'It poured the whole afternoon, and, after writing, I read to Albert the three first cantos of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, which delighted us both.'Queen Victoria Sir Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in safety.'Jane Austen Acts 27:44Print: Book


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