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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. He is grown a favouritt Author of mine. I am not cont...Gertrude Savile Edward YoungThe Universal PassionPrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words would often have been mine, if heaven had endowed me ...Anne Lister Edward YoungThe Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, andPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edition at home (got another directly), the very lines y...Anne Lister Edward YoungThe Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, andPrint: Book
1800-1849From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10.Anne Lister Edward YoungThe complaint, or night thoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaEdward Young Print: Book
1800-1849"It was about this period that Mike, the dwarf waiter, fell ill. His mistress and others of her family being worn out by watching, the landlady appealed to me to take a ...John Bedford Leno Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy to our house in the evening to whom I read two nights of "The Complaint", one of which was the Christian triumph against the fear of death, which must be allow...Thomas Turner Edward YoungThe Complaint: or night thoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock on death. I now having read "The Complaint" through...Thomas Turner Edward YoungThe Complaint: or night thoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Young's "Night Thoughts".'Thomas Turner Edward YoungThe complaint or night thoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of Young's "Estimate of Human Life".'Thomas Turner Edward YoungA vindication of providence; or, a true estimate o...Print: Book
1700-1799'With us, the "Centaur not fabulous" has met with a pretty good Reception; tho' some good People wish that it had less of the Enthusiasm of Poetry in it; less of Imaginat...Samuel Richardson Edward YoungThe Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Frie...Manuscript: Unknown, printed by Richardson so presumably read in MS
1800-1849?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their old companion was not going to join them. I heard fro...William Edwin Adams Edward YoungThe Complaint: or night thoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent relates how the nineteenth-century apprentice compositor William Adams rejected his usual work associates and walking-companions after discovering Young's "...William Adams Edward YoungThe Complaint, and the Consolation, or, Night Thou...Print: Book
1800-1849'We waste, not use, ourtime; we breathe, not live' [single line] 'Young'Carey/Maingay groupEdward YoungNight Thoughts OR 'Night Two'Print: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799'Looked into Young's "Night Thoughts": debased throughout with many poor and puerile conceits...'Thomas Green Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile t...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Edward YoungNight thoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849'When my day's task is at an end, I keep my nightly vigils with Young, whose Night Thoughts I do think, next to Milton's, the most sublime poem in the English language. I...Miss V[-] Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "What do you think of Dr. Young's 'Night Thoughts,' Sir?" Johnson. "Why, Sir, there are many fine things in them".' Samuel Johnson Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason to believe that, my Lord. Are we to think Pope was ...Samuel Johnson Edward Young Print: Book


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