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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple[books of history]Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754: 'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of moral philosophy, to find that the moral frame was not p...Catherine Talbot David FordyceElements of Moral PhilosophyPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge David FriedlanderSendschreiben an seine Hochwurden Herrn Oberconsis...Print: Book
1900-1945While her terminally ill sister Anne was staying at a nursing home in Priory Road, West Hampstead, Charlotte Mew 'came every day with novels to read aloud and amuse them ...Charlotte Mew David GarnettGo She MustPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because the...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettA Man in the ZooPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because the...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettLady into FoxPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because the...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettThe Sailor's ReturnUnknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for D. [David]'s little tale ["Lady into Fox"]. Its the most successful thing of the kind I have ever seen.'
[Hence follow ten lines of praise.] 		Joseph Conrad David GarnettLady into FoxPrint: Book
1900-1945'For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the "[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]". D[avid] may be congratulated in pulling off this piece with great t...Joseph Conrad David GarnettA Man in the ZooPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in the vol of plays lent me by my father, the farce of "Catherine and Petruchio"; abridged from Shakespeare's play of "Taming of the Shrew".'Joseph Hunter David GarrickCatharine and Petruchio. A Comedy Altered from Sha...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man who had never felt it: his love verses were college ve...Hester Thrale David Garrick[light verse]Print: Book
1900-1945'In the afternoon I finished "Dialectical Materialism", by David Guest - a promising young philosopher killed in the Spanish War. I find that my own conception of the rel...William Soutar David GuestDialectical MaterialismPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr Young once told me, that Dr Hartley's Two Volumes on Man were the Most Original of any thing he had seen published of many years. He praised them; but owned, that one...Dr (Edward?) Young David HartleyObservations on ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser ...Samuel Richardson David Hartley[passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, hi...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser ...Lady Bradshaigh David HartleyObservations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his ...Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'The edition of Hartley that I used was Dr. Priestley's [...] That book I studied with a fervour and persev...Harriet Martineau David HartleyunknownPrint: Book
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge David HartleyObservations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His...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
1700-1799'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book used by Wordsworth after 1800 contains "four verses f...William Wordsworth David HerdAncient and Modern Scottish PoemsPrint: BookUnknown
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place David Hume[Hume's Essays]Print: Book


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