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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Living Authors".'Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1700-1799'Brought Vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library. It is a book on very great call.'Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1800-1849'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings" - concerning which I ...Thomas Carter David SimpsonA Plea for Religion and the Sacred WritingsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since my books have come I have read every day ... 100 or thereby pp of Stewart's Highland Regiments.'Robert Louis Stevenson David Stewart of GarthSketches of the Character, Manners, and Present St...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading Thompson's "History of the Late War in Britain"; Decrees Blockades.'William Richard Grahame David ThompsonHistory of the Late War Between Great Britain andPrint: Book
1850-1899'On reading the subjoined chapters on the Turkish Bath, in Mr Urquhart's "Pillars of Hercules", I was electrified; and resolved, if possible, to add that institution to...Dr Richard Barter David UrquhartThe Pillars of Hercules, or, a narrative of travelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you know) which has the honour of appearing in "Maga" [...Margaret Oliphant David WingateMy Little WifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Goethe, to Irving, to Buller, to Brewster &c &c. Thes...Thomas Carlyle David (dr) BrewsterRecommendationManuscript: Letter of recommendation
1700-1799' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excellent. I agreed with you on every one of them. He him...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excellent. I agreed with you on every one of them. He him...James Boswell David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excellent. I agreed with you on every one of them. He him...David Dalrymple David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have at last sent back Lord Hailes's sheets, I never think about returning them, because I alter nothing. You will see that I might a...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Lord Hailes writes to me [...] "I am singularly obliged to Dr. Johnson for accurate and useful criticisms. Had he given some strictures ...David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observati...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into Henault; but Lord Hailes, in my opinion, leaves him...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Johnson said] Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" have not that painted form which is the taste of this age; but it is a book which will always sell, it has such a stab...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday March 13th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography [makes detailed notes from vol. I part i in this]'.Claire Clairmont David Erskine BakerBiographica dramatica; or, a Companion to the Play...Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday March 14th. [...] Read Dramatic Biography'.Claire Clairmont David Erskine BakerBiographia dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playh...Print: Book
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1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau David Friedrich StraussDas Leben JesuPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud.] David Friedrich StraussLife of Jesus [second version]Print: Book


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