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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on the one hand by labour and on the other by pain; for ...S.J. Pratt Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of poems which Messrs. Longman transmitted to me a few days since, and for which I am indebted to your politeness...J. Mitford Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dear Madam, Dr. Russell's verses are very highly welcomed. I like them very much. There is great simplicit, neatness and elegance in them.'R.A. Davenport Dr RussellVersesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make a good drama. The story is busy and pathetic. For t...J.P. Smith Mary Russell MitfordBlanch of Castile and other poemsManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledged the receipt of the pretty poem which you have don...Lord Holland Mary Russell MitfordPoems on the Female CharacterManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'A fortnight ago, having employed myself in reading White's "Selborne", and being extremely fond of natural history, and, of course, highly delighted with that book, I wa...Sir William Elford Gilbert WhiteSelbornePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished your poem of "The Sisters", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and delight which I cannot express. I like it better than ...Sir William Elford Mary Russell MitfordThe SistersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of "Tales of Fashionable Life". I don't enter into disquisitions about whether t...Sir William Elford Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'By the way, I am in the train of reading the "History of Clarissa", who affords a notable example that fear is not the effectual mode. Pray did you ever go through that ...Sir William Elford Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears to me that there is not one character in the whole wo...Sir William Elford Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am happy that you think with me about waltzing. Have you seen Sir H. Englefield's verses? They appear to me perfect as far as touching forcibly the proper points. They...Sir William Elford Sir H. EnglefieldVerses on WaltzingPrint: Book
1800-1849'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, alw...Eleanor Anne Porden VirgilEnvyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, alw...Eleanor Anne Porden Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, tenderness, and sublimity are mixed with description...Eleanor Anne Porden John WilsonThe City of the PlaguePrint: Book
1800-1849'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel disappointed in now. The fact is that the time is pa...Eleanor Anne Porden unknownStrathallanPrint: Book
1800-1849[He wishes to express] 'the high gratification I have received from the perusal of "Foscari". I must frankly tell you that the play has very much surprised me. I gave yo...P. Bayley Mary Russell MitfordFoscariManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somewhat highly raised. The interest begins at once, and...Eleanor Anne Porden Mary Russell MitfordFoscariManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] "Literature du Midi de l'Europe" would be of some use in collateral information, and at any rate that is amusing.'Eleanor Anne Porden SismondiLiterature du Midi de l'EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849'The short and simple annals of the poor, which have lately poured in such profusion from the Scottish press, I thought at first exquisitely beautiful and pathetic, and t...Eleanor Anne Porden John GaltAnnals of the ParishPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think the public taste is not in any danger of relapsing into Arcadian pastorals, but I suspect these Caledonian pastorals to be almost as ideal. Crabbe, with his occ...Eleanor Anne Porden George Crabbe[poems]Print: Book


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