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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Colley Cibber Colley CibberCharacter and Conduct of Cicero Considered Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I communicated this Letter [from Colley Cibber, reproduced in the text] to Lord Chief Baron [italics] Bowes [end italics], the Hon. [italics] Arthur Hill [end italics], ...Arthur Hill, Lord Bowes Colley Cibber[letter to LP]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'His [Colley Cibber's] friends gave out that he [italics] intended [end italics] his birth-day "Odes" should be bad: but that was not the case, Sir; for he kept them many...Samuel Johnson Colley Cibber[Odes]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber himself, taking from his conversation all that he ought ...Samuel Johnson Colley CibberApology for the Life of Mr. Colley CibberPrint: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber himself, taking from his conversation all that he ought ...Colley Cibber Colley Cibber[an ode]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson, as usual, spoke contemptuously of Colley Cibber. "It is wonderful that a man, who for forty years had lived with the great and the witty, should have acquir...Samuel Johnson Colley CibberCareless Husband, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Si...James Boswell Colley CibberApology for the Life of Mr. Colley CibberPrint: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Si...James Boswell Colley Cibber[Plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Si...Samuel Johnson Colley Cibber[Plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Si...Samuel Johnson Colley CibberAn Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley CibberPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] He [Colley Cibber] abused Pindar to me, and then shewed me an Ode of his own, with an absurd couplet, making a linnet soar on an eagle's wing. I told him ...Samuel Johnson Colley Cibber[an Ode]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Johnson said] 'Colley Cibber once consulted me as to one of his birth-day Odes, a long time before it was wanted. I objected very freely to several passages. Cibber los...Colley Cibber Colley Cibber[birthday Ode]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will have found in them much abuse, little eloquence, and...Mary Berry Colonel MathewletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to the library today...He is an arrant republican in poli...Anne Lister Colonel Francis HallTravels in France in 1818Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Saturday, 31 May 1828: 'I have finishd Napier's War in the Peninsula. It is written in the spirit of a Liberal but the narrative is distinct and clear and I should sup...Walter Scott Colonel W. F. P. NapierHistory of War in the Peninsula (vol. 1)Print: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Cic...Gabriel Harvey Columella unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[treet]"., but I have now taken "Carnival" in persisten...Henry James Compton MackenzieSinister Street (vol.1)Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[treet]"., but I have now taken "Carnival" in persisten...Henry James Compton MackenzieCarnivalPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in letter of 21 November 1914 to Hugh Walpole, writes of his bemusement at the second volume of Compton Mackenzie's "Sinister Street": 'I don't know what it ...Henry James Compton MackenzieSinister Street (vol 2)Print: Book
1900-1945'At a P.E.N. dinner I sat beside him, and questioned him about the "lighted door" in his novel "Guy and Pauline".'Vera Brittain Compton MackenzieGuy and PaulinePrint: Book


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