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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l...Margaret Gissing Friedrich Schiller[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Threadneedle Street, 14th October, 1818. 'Rose soon after 6. Read Say's chapter on ...George Grote Friedrich SchillerDon CarlosPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on ...George Grote Friedrich SchillerDon CarlosPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on ...George Grote Friedrich SchillerDon CarlosPrint: Book
1850-1899'He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich SchillerOn the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of L...Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich SpeeTrutz Nachtigal ein geistlich poetisches LustwaldlPrint: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich von HumboldtEssai politique sur la royaume de nouvelle espagnePrint: Book
1850-1899'... I find I have nothing to say that has not been already perfectly said and perfectly sung in Adelaide.'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich von MatthisonAdelaidePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Also I have been hearing ?Adelaide? many times; O! That is all I can say..'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich von MatthissonAdelaideUnknown
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton Friedrich von Nietzsche Print: Book
1800-1849‘I have been reading Von Raumer’s England. He speaks highly of the Table talk and of my father, though some of the sentiments are at variance with his own.’Hartley Coleridge Friedrich von RaumerEngland in 1835: Being a Series of Letters Written...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 20 August 1800: 'Read Wallenstein and sent it off ...'Dorothy Wordsworth Friedrich von SchillerWallenstein (in translation by S. T. Coleridge)Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] We [himself and his brother William] ... commenced s...Henry James Friedrich von SchillerMaria StuartPrint: Book
1800-1849From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'Felicia Hemans Friedrich von SchillerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Anton MesmerMesmerismusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich August WolfProlegomena ad HomerumPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Carl Von SavignyOf the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jur...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Daniel Ernst SchleiermacherA Critical Essay on the Gospel of St LukePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Daniel Ernst SchleiermacherUeber den sogenannten ersten Brief des PaulosPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford Friedrich de la Motte FouquéUndine, eine ErzahlungPrint: Book


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