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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson Edmund Spenser Print: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room re...Alfred Tennyson Campbell Print: Book
1800-1849'The first entire work that I read in defence of revealed religion, was Archdeacon Paley's View of the Evidences of Christianity. This very excellent work I perhaps neve...James Lackington William PaleyView of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to lose his sight [...] He took to a milk diet for some ...Alfred Tennyson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'Arthur Hallam Susan FerrierDestinyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'Arthur Hallam Susan FerrierInheritancePrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Arthur Hallam Sir William Blackstone Print: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Arthur Hallam Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Alfred Tennyson Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Alfred Tennyson Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Merivale [...] wrote to [W. H.] Thompson [...]: '"Though the least eminent of the Tennysonian Rhapsodists, I have converted by my readings both my brother and...Charles Merivale Alfred Tennyson'The Lotos-Eaters'Print: Book
1800-1849Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson: 'I have been reading Mrs Jameson's Characteristics, and I am so bewildered with similes about groves and violets, and streams of musi...Arthur Hallam Mrs JamesonCharacteristicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Edward] Fitzgerald writes on "The Lady of Shalott": '"Well I remember this poem, read to me, before I knew the author, at Cambridge one night in 1832 or 3, and its i...Edward Fitzgerald Alfred Tennyson'The Lady of Shalott'Print: Book
1800-1849'[W. H.] Brookfield writes [to Tennyson] from Sheffield: '"You and Rob Montgomery are our only brewers now! A propos to the latter, Jingling James, his namesake, dined...James Montgomery Alfred TennysonsonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833: 'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time, with which I find as many faults and beauties as ev...The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm MeisterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of those religious tracts which are published by the Rel...James Lackington anon [Religious Tract Society]tractsPrint: Pamphlet, tracts
1800-1849'Not long ater this he brought from Bristol Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, 2 vols. 8vo. I having expressed a wish to see in what state of mind Mr Wesley died. After ha...James Lackington John WhiteheadThe Life of the Rev John WesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I again took up Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, and as I saw by the title-page that it contained an account of Mr Wesley's ancestors and relations, the life of Mr Char...James and Mary Lackington John WhiteheadThe Life of the Rev John WesleyPrint: Book
1800-1849James Spedding to W. H. Thompson, 1834: 'Wordsworth's eyes are better, but not so well [...] Reading inflames them, and so does composing. I believe it was a series of...William Wordsworth William Wordsworth'Highland sonnets'Manuscript: Unknown


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