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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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[-] John MiltonParadise LostPrint: 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[-] VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1800-1849'You bid me tell you what I read; and, in obedience to your commands, I confess myself to be at present under a course of [italics] historical physic [end italics], which...Miss V[-] [books about Roman /ancient history]Print: 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
1800-1849'I am reading on Sundays "Morehead's Discourses on the Principle of Religious Belief", which are greatly admired, though I canot say I think there is either much strength...Miss V[-] Robert MoreheadA Series Of Discourses On The Principles of Religi...Print: Book
1800-1849'to return to "Pastor Fido", with whom I have not yet finished, - I must tell you, that though I (what a great authority!) do not take pleasure in this said translation o...Miss V[-] Giovanni Battista GuarinoIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book
1800-1849'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end italics], a heroine was merely a piece of beautiful ...Susan Ferrier Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end italics], a heroine was merely a piece of beautiful ...Susan Ferrier Frances JacsonRhodaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I took a great pleasure in the "Antiquary", till I learnt who was the author. It is universally believed that it was written by a man of the name of Greenfield, once a p...Mrs [-] Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Paul's Letters? Partial as I am to the author, I confess I was disappointed. I believe they are very just and well written, and profound; but they really a...Mrs [-] [Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I feel, dear [-], gratified by the partiality which you express for my writings. You would, more than many others, be much influenced by the subject so often alluded to,...Charlotte Bury Anne GrantLetters from the MountainsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[love letters represent the only subject women] 'should ever attempt to write about. Madame de Stael even I will not except from this general rule; she has done a plague...Matthew Lewis Anne Louise Germaine, marquise de Stael Holstein Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been perusing your minstrelsy very diligently for a while past, and it being the first book I ever perused which was written by a person I had seen and conversed ...James Hogg Walter ScottMinstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I received yours yesternight with the poem of [italics] the Sabbath [end italics], a good part of which I have already perused and have concluded that the Cameronian hat...James Hogg James GrahameSabbath, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I had a present of a very elegant copy of the "Lay" lately from a gentleman in Edin. to whom I was ashamed to confess that I had it not. This is g[TEAR] you a hint that ...James Hogg Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to William Blackwood, 24 August 1819: 'I have received your last number [...] As a series of essays, critical and humorous, it is excellent; but i...John Wilson Croker Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'.James Hogg Thomas McCrieLife of Andrew Melville, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'.James Hogg Thomas McCrieLife of John Knox, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian The one is a drawing from life the other a compositio...James Hogg Allan Cunningham'Recollections of Mark Macrabin the Cameronian'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I inclose you a very curious letter from a cousin german of my own to his son who still remains in this country. It has given me so much amusement that I thought it migh...James Hogg James Laidlaw[Letter from America to his son]Manuscript: Letter


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