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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Lady Margaret Majendie Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Hall Caine Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Shorthouse Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Margaret Oliphant Print: Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'March 17th. [1890] He [Tennyson] had all but recovered from his influenza, and sat in the sun in front of the study window, ...Hallam Tennyson Homer  Print: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we tele...Hallam Tennyson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day: 'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again asked for his Shakespeare and lay with his hand res...Alfred Tennyson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last day: 'At 2 o'clock [p.m., on Wednesday 5 October 1892] he again asked for his Shakespeare and lay with his hand res...Alfred Tennyson William Shakespeare Print: Book
1700-1799'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & even now perhaps in popish Countries, mistaken for De...Hester Lynch Thrale  Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Hester Lynch Thrale Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Samuel Johnson Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Samuel Johnson Euripides Print: Book
1700-1799'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as t...Hester Lynch Thrale  Print: Book
1700-1799'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as t...Alexander Pope  Print: Book
1700-1799'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think of reading at any other Time: but they remind me of [...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson Print: Book
1700-1799'Apropos to riding in a coach, Perkins told me that he had [italics] found out the Secret how to read in a Carriage [end italics] and would tell it to me, to whom it migh...Mr Perkins  Print: Book
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Abraham Cowley Print: Book
1700-1799'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satires & in Rubens's Painting, Cowley captivates my Heart...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean de La Bruyere Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [....Alfred Tennyson Homer  Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [....Alfred Tennyson Pindar  Print: Book


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