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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's letters, and since then read Anquetils' "Louis XIV, Sa Cour, et le Regent". - a most admirably entertaining work, in four moderate...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Pierre AnquetilLouis XIV, sa cour et le RegentPrint: Book
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuv...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Callevill...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am also reading with great veneration, but some degree of despondency, Practical Piety. The Chapter on "Comparatively small Faults and Virtues" merits to be written in...Sarah Harriet Burney Hannah MorePractical PietyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Anch'io have been reading La Rochefaucould [sic] - and he has furnished me with an excellet Motto for my third Volume - And what is more to the purpose, with some entert...Sarah Harriet Burney Francois de la RochefoucauldReflexions ou sentences et maximes moralesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have, for Sunday reading, great delight in old South'Sarah Harriet Burney Robert South[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Bartelemi's Anacharsis. which forms a sort of Appendix or rather comentary to the Grecian History I was so much taken up with last summer. Without such a pr...Sarah Harriet Burney Jean-Jacques BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en GrecePrint: Book
1800-1849"I too am reading Mme de Staal [sic], and am such a Goth, that I catch myself yawning over it! Probably I am not formed to love "les plaisirs [underlined] dissertant [end...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave about it! How well you define one of its characterestic...Sarah Harriet Burney Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention i...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention i...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinZulma, et trois nouvellesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave about it! How well you define one of its characterestic...Sarah Harriet Burney Catherine Anne DorsetPeacock "at home", ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's with the carelessness and haste a common Novel may b...Sarah Harriet Burney Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen Guy Mannering? I perfectly doat upon it. There is such skill in the management of the fable, & it is so eminently original in its characters and descriptio...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Discipline" people tell me to read, but I have no stomach to it, I believe because of the [underlined] name [end underlining], fool that I am! - But one thing is, I did...Sarah Harriet Burney Mary BruntonSelf ControlPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many thanks for the loan of "Emma", which, even amidst languor and depression, forced from me a smile, & afforded me much amusement'. Sarah Harriet Burney Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - ...Sarah Harriet Burney Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - ...Charlotte Barrett Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - ...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & ...Sarah Harriet Burney John ScottVisit to Paris in 1814, APrint: Book


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