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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and lines "Breathe forth Elixir pure"; "when with one virtuo...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'.John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apollonian. Satan first "throws round his baleful eyes", the...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849Aubrey De Vere, on how he 'first made acquaintance with Alfred Tennyson's poetry': 'Lord Houghton, then Richard Monckton Milnes, a Cambridge friend of my eldest brothe...Aubrey De Vere Arthur HallamEssay on Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Aubrey De Vere on his first 'acquaintance' with Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical: 'I remember most of them by heart still. Day after day my sister and I used to read ...Aubrey de Vere and sisterAlfred TennysonPoems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Book
1800-1849From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'Oct. 4th [1863] I walked over alone to Farringford [...] Tennyson at luncheon [...]we went down and wa...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far t...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleThesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (...Manuscript: Degree thesis
1800-1849'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying myself with Tasso's Aminta- 'Jane Baillie Welsh Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Let me remember, that though I now see, in all the prophets, the most valuable testimony to the truth of the Christian faith, a few years only have elapsed since I consi...Elizabeth Hamilton [books on the prophecies]Print: Book
1800-1849'The parable of the talents was one of the first passages in the New Testament that attracted my serious attention'.Elizabeth Hamilton [New testament]Print: Book
1800-1849'The evidences of the infinite wisdom, power, and goodness of the great Creator, given by Paley in his Natural Theology, have attracted my attention to objects that might...Elizabeth Hamilton William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind receive...Elizabeth Hamilton James CurrieLife of Robert BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind receive...Elizabeth Hamilton Robert Burns Print: Book
1800-1849'[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been mo...Elizabeth Hamilton Robert Burns[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been mo...Elizabeth Hamilton James CurrieLife of BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to H.M. esq] my poor brains have been of late so completely fused in the furnace of metaphysic, that they have become a complete [italics] calx [end italics]. I ...Elizabeth Hamilton [books on metaphysics]Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgment under imagination] is kept up; while, in your more...Elizabeth Hamilton Hector Macneil[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased w...Elizabeth Hamilton Hector MacneilHarp, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased w...Miss H. Hector MacneilHarp, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H'.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased ...Miss H. Hector MacneilThe Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Wi...Print: Book


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