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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Whewell, who was [Tennyson's] tutor, he called "the lion-like man" and had for him a great respect. It is reported that Whewell, recognising his genius, tolerated in him...Alfred Tennyson Virgil  Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesThomas Hobbes Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesJohn Locke Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesGeorge Berkeley Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The Apostles Butler Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesDavid Hume Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesJeremy Bentham Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesRene Descartes Print: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesImanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849'My father said of his friend: "Arthur Hallam could take in the most abstruse ideas with the utmost rapidity and insight [...] On one occasion, I remember, he mastered a ...Arthur Hallam Rene Descartes Print: Book
1800-1849Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830: 'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of...Henry and Arthur HallamHerodotus  Print: Book
1800-1849Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830: 'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of...Arthur Hallam David Hartley Print: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson Edmund Spenser Print: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson Campbell Print: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Arthur Hallam Sir William Blackstone Print: Book
1850-1899'O when we woke in London docks, the first steamer I saw go past was the "Charles", and the next the "Cygnet": I was afraid to look any more, I felt so eerie; but of cour...Robert Louis Stevenson  Manuscript: Letter, Painted (or stencilled?) on ships' sides.
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson Jean Racine Print: Book


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