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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly worth reading. He has exhausted the subject of Scot...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published in the shape of letters'.Sydney Smith Horace Walpole[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so that I follow your advice and abandon it to any one who...Sydney Smith Robert SoutheyThe Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Method...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but even that has its limits and is exhaustible. I am a...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe PiratePrint: Book
1800-1849'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosions, where the conspirators and conspired against must...Sydney Smith [unknown]The BeaconPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I read a pamphlet of Cockburn's; rather good'.Sydney Smith Cockburn[pamphlet]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is the first novel in which there is no Meg Merrilies. T...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you had been silent upon the subject, or even if you had d...Sydney Smith John Gibson LockhartSome Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Ministe...Print: Book
1800-1849'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be better or it will be the last. There is I see Flibbertig...Sydney Smith Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'You have read Peveril, a middling production between his best and worst - rather agreeable than not'.[Lady] Grey Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious piece of good luck, but it may damage the Catholic ques...Sydney Smith Joseph Blanco WhiteDoblado's Letters from SpainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and therefore, of course, better than all others. Every now a...Sydney Smith Walter ScottSt Ronan's WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it ws too witty and brilliant. He then wrote it over aga...Sydney Smith Basil HallExtracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of C...Print: Book
1800-1849'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'.Sydney Smith Jacques PeuchetMemoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie...Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I mentioned to Lord Normanby, that it was the book selecte...Sydney Smith Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord NormanbyMatildaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to state what are original propensities, and to trace o...Sydney Smith George Combe[probably] A System of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray read Agar Ellis's ' Iron Mask;' not so much for that question [that of old age], though it is not devoid of curiosity, as to remark the horrible atrocities perpetra...Sydney Smith George Agar-Ellis, Lord DoverThe true history of the state prisoner, Commonly c...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and though I was sorry you put yourself to any expense on my...Sydney Smith William Pitt Scargill [anon.]Elizabeth EvanshawPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and though I was sorry you put yourself to any expense on my...Sydney Smith [anon.]Three Months in Ireland. By an English ProtestantPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'.Sydney Smith Henry Gally KnightForeign and Domestic View of the Catholic QuestionPrint: Pamphlet


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