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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...Thomas Jones Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849"After waiting a considerable period for the remittance, the box was forced, and found to contain a vast quantity of brickbats and an odd volume of Johnson's 'Lives of th...John Bedford Leno Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os...Samuel Bamford Samuel JohnsonLives of the poetsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical decisions are founded...'Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] 'I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few proof sheets which I have'.James Boswell Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: proof sheets
1700-1799'So easy is his style in these "Lives", that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when giving an account of the approach of Waller's mortal ...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson was fair to Milton's poetic genius, despite hating his politics] Indeed even Dr. Towers, who may be considered as one of the warmest zealots of [italics] The Re...Dr Towers Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for his Toryism, but what cares he? he calls himself a Tor...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: proof sheets
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Theophilus CibberLives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Print: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a...anon Lives of the Robbers and PiratesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Goldsmith's life, and (long ago) with the Lives of the S...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John ForsterLives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth Print: Book
1900-1945"By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Miss Broughton [had] read the lives of great women reformers like Florence Nightingale and Miss Weston ..." Lives of women reformersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Johnson's "Lives" (I had re...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Samuel] JohnsonLives [of the most eminent English poets]Print: Book
1900-1945After reading "Living Alone" in 1923, Winifred wrote Stella a letter of appreciation. When no answer arrived she concluded that Stella Benson, like so many authors, put ...Winifred Holtby Stella BensonLiving AloneUnknown
1900-1945Notes in pencil in the rear inside cover, and some light marginalia in pencil throughout the volume; this is extensive on the following pages: 90, 108-111, 116-7, 134-5, ...Vernon Lee Edwin S. GoodrichLiving Organisms: An Account of their Origin & Evo...Print: Book
1850-1899'I've just finished reading "Liza of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is another question. I at any rate have nothing to say e...Joseph Conrad W. Somerset MaughamLiza of LambethPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 October 1766:] 'Fye upon you and your popish saints [...] Your whole folio [of saints' lives] is not half so well worth readi...Elizabeth Carter Lloyd's ChroniclePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's Evening Post", and at this I sometimes got a hasty p...Thomas Carter [n/a]Lloyd's Evening PostPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey LloydLloyd's Penny TimesPrint: Newspaper


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