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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Contents are mainly comments on, or corrections to, the te...John Drummond Erskine Francis GladwinDissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme o...Print: Book
1900-1945Now my sweet Francis I have read your book in this Alpine district. . . . There is not, really, much fault to be found with 'T.N.Y.C.' It is well-constructed; and the ...Arnold Bennett Francis HackettThat Nice Young CouplePrint: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith Francis HallJournal of Travels in the United States of North A...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have taken to no deeper study than Capt. Head's gallop which I have never read before. I am afraid it won't instruct me much.'Emma Wedgwood Francis HeadRapid Journeys across the PampasPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first...George Gordon, Lord Byron Francis Hodgson[translation of Juvenal]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first...George Gordon, Lord Byron Francis HodgsonLady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge of the Subject by a covert Attack or two on Some of ...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonThe Friends: a PoemUnknown
Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonChilde Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by th...Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonSaeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live inUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... dined, and turned over yr. notes.'George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonNotes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occ...Unknown
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonInquiry into the Originals of our Ideas of Beauty ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonInquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty a...Print: Book
1700-1799'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonEssay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions an...Print: Book
1700-1799'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of...Edward Synge Francis HutchesonEssay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions an...Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "There is much talk of the misery which we cause to the brute creation; but they are recompensed by existence. If they were not useful to man, and theref...James Boswell Francis HutchesonSystem of Moral PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (Oct 1802)] comes in a letter of Jan. 1804 to [John] T...William Wordsworth Francis Jeffreyreview of ThalabaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says -- "Scott and Campbell won't like" kind Soul!'George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Jeffreyreview of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abyd...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impartial Galignani.'George Gordon Lord Byron Francis JeffreyunknownPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so much of his time on Politics; and I rejoice in the pros...Thomas Carlyle Francis JeffreyEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a r...Charlotte Bury Francis Jeffrey[ review of 'Essays on the superstitions of the Hi...Print: Serial / periodical



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