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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's...Charlotte Bury Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[possibly] Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relati...Print: Book
1800-1849'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's...Charlotte Bury John TweddellRemains of the late John Tweddell, fellow of Trini...Print: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfi...Mr Sharpe Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfi...Mr Sharpe Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfi...Mr Sharpe Jonathan SwiftLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfi...Mr Sharpe Voltaire [pseud.]LettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfi...Mr Sharpe Horace WalpoleLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfi...Mr Sharpe Heloise[Letters to Abelard]Print: Book
1800-1849'After reading many private as well as public documents of his age, I am persuaded that he and lord Melville were the two only honest political characters in Scotland' [h...Mr Sharpe unknownPrint: Book, probably manuscripts as well
1800-1849'[Lady Caroline Lamb's] novel of Glenarvon showed much genius, but of an erratic kind; and false statements are so mingled with true in its pages, that the next generatio...Charlotte Bury Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Amongst various verses, which she insisted on my accepting, she gave me the following lines, which she said she had written as supposing them to be spoken by the Duchess...Charlotte Bury Caroline Lamb'Winter Amusements'Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I happened to open Madame de Stael's "Allemagne", and passed the whole night in reading that delightful work over again. The great charm in all her writings is, that the...Charlotte Bury Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'As to curious MSS, there is no such thing here; no varieties, but dull charters of religious houses, and canting lives of Presbyterian ministers. whatever the Bannatyne ...Mr Sharpe [various MS letters, religious charters and poems]Manuscript: various
1800-1849'As to curious MSS, there is no such thing here; no varieties, but dull charters of religious houses, and canting lives of Presbyterian ministers. whatever the Bannatyne ...Mr Sharpe [volumes published by the Bannatyne club]Print: Book
1800-1849'Letters bring Lady M. W. M[ontagu] into my head, which I now do not confess in public ever to have read, for they are deemed so naughty by all the world, that one must k...Mr Sharpe Mary Wortley MontaguLetters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at the same time. The subject is taken from the reign of...Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de GenlisMademoiselle de La Fayette : ou le siecle de Louis...Print: Book
1800-1849'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at the same time. The subject is taken from the reign of...Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de GenlisLes voeux temeraires : ou L' enthousiasmePrint: Book
1800-1849'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bodies of Charles the First and Henry the Eighth: you m...Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron[possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daugh...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] Giovanni Battista GuariniIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] HomerOdyssey and IliadPrint: Book


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