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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are some good descriptions - the Mother and Child, Mr Fox a...Sydney Smith Samuel RogersHuman LifePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a very affecting letter from the Botany Bay Chaplain'...Sydney Smith Henry Grey BennetLetter to Viscount Sidmouth, Secretary of State fo...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Tell my Lord, if he wants to read a good savory ecclesiastical pamphlet, to read Jonas Dennis' "Concio Cleri", a book of about 150 pages. He is the first parson who has ...Sydney Smith Jonas DennisConvocatio CleriPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford...Sydney Smith James McIntosh[Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of P...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford...Sydney Smith Edward Copleston[Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it a good style. He is a bold man and great names do no...Sydney Smith Arthur HallamHistory Of Europe During The Middle AgesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'.Sydney Smith William HeudeA Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overlan...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham ...Sydney Smith unknown[article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to B...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham ...Sydney Smith unknown[article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoir...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a style and feel ashamed of my Simplicity and innocen...Sydney Smith Ferdinando Galiani[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Galiani's letters, but they are so utterly insignificant, that there is nothing more to be said of them than that they are not worth speaking about. I scarce...Sydney Smith Ferdinando Galiani[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him Mr Walter Scott. I should as soon say Mr Shakespeare...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetitions of himself. Caleb is overdone. Sir W. and Lady ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is nothing very powerful and striking in it; but it is ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are many more powerful. The subject, in novels, poems, ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: 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
1800-1849'I strongly recommend to you Captain Golownin's narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertaining books I have read for a long time.'Sydney Smith [Captain] GollowninRecollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marry such a woman as Lady Rachel; it would have been to...Sydney Smith Mary BerrySome Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, L...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less than any of the others - much less. Such I think yo...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe MonasteryPrint: Book


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