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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood Edward Young Print: Book
1700-1799''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon t...James Boswell Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon t...Samuel Johnson Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon t...Samuel Johnson Edward YoungLove of Fame, The Universal PassionPrint: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Samuel Johnson Edward Young Print: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward Young Print: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward YoungConjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter t...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She ...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She ...Miss Cooper Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: 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 Edward YoungLove of Fame, The Universal PassionPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 12 June 1796: 'Have you read Fawcetts Art of War? with all the faults of Young it possesses more beauties — & is in many...Robert Southey Edward YoungThe Complaint, or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, ...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, beginning 'Celestial Happiness, when’er she stoops. To visi...Catherine Austen Edward YoungThe Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & ...Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Yesterday evening we were entertained by one of the noblest storms I ever enjoyed, and truly this was not en...Catherine Talbot Edward Young Print: Book
1700-1799Mary Delany to Samuel Richardson, 16 August 1751: 'I am now reading Dr Young's Night Thoughts, and can hardly forbear sending him a rapture of thanks for the entertain...Mary Delany Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 13 May 1818:] 'Read Young's Night Thoughts.'Elizabeth Firth Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The past few months have been a new world [...] the age that has gone by since I read Young’s “Night Thoughts” in the dugout at Cuinchy. And, now I think of it, I forgot...Edmund Blunden Edward YoungThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,...Print: Book
1900-1945‘I never visited this dungeon without repeating from Young’s “Night Thoughts”, often in my pocket, the just words, ”Dreadful post of observation! Darker every hour.”' ...Edmund Blunden Edward YoungThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,...Print: Book
1900-1945'During this period my indebtedness to an eighteenth-century poet became enormous. At every spare moment I read Young’s “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, ...Edmund Blunden Edward YoungThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,...Print: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Edward Arthur BurroughsValley of Decision, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's "Odyssey" xi...Ronald Storrs Edward Augustus FreemanRace and LanguagePrint: Book


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