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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 JanuaryAnne Lister Edward GibbonMiscellaneous WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gender, (as Gibbons wrote toDeyverdum, vol. 604/703...Anne Lister Edward GibbonMiscellaneous WorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked into Gibbon's "Miscellaneous Works"...'Thomas Green Edward GibbonMiscellaneous WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Rose at seven, purposely to proceed in Gibbon's Miscell. Works- which I began yesterday. - read the whole of his own memoirs- 185 pages.'William Upcott Edward GibbonMiscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'The finishing of the first volume of Gibbon is all I have been able to accomplish comfortably from my last memoranda. Every morning this week has been taken up in copyin...William Upcott Edward GibbonMiscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Mary Godwin John Holroyd, Lord SheffieldMiscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert RobinsonMiscellaneous Works of Robert RobinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own character, which is not increased by his noble commentat...Benjamin Newton Edward GibbonMiscellaneous works...with memoirs of his lifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by himself and confess myself greatly disappointed, not ind...Benjamin Newton Edward GibbonMiscellaneous works...with memoirs of his lifePrint: Book
1800-1849'An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from one of Gibbons letters to Lord Sheffield in 1792 [q...Benjamin Newton Edward GibbonMiscellaneous works...with memoirs of his lifePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget w...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas de QuinceyMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxurianc...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth HarrisonMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Hester Lynch Thrale John DrydenMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, wh...Elizabeth Carter Henry FieldingMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 5 April 1849:

'The Cornhill books are still our welcome and congenial resource while Anne [sister, in terminal decline] i...		Charlotte Brontė Thomas CarlyleMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752]: 'I never answered you about the authoress of certain Miscellanies. Is it possible you could really admire them? Is...Catherine Talbot Mary JonesMiscellanies in Prose and VersePrint: Book
1800-1849Employed myself reading Constables Miscellany- voyages, mutinies and shipwrecks in the Southern OceanAdam Mackie Archibald ConstableMiscellanyPrint: Book
1600-1699A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engagement with text in the form of various marginal annot...John Susan variousMiscellany of verseManuscript: Codex
1600-1699A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engagement with text in the form of various marginal annot...John Nutting variousMiscellany of verseManuscript: Codex
1800-1849'There is here a Mrs Hutton of Birmingham with whom I have struck up an acquaintance because she wrote a clever amusing little book called "The Miser Married"'.Sarah Harriet Burney Catherine HuttonMiser Married, ThePrint: Book


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