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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849"in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..."William Wordsworth Robert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ... 'William Wordsworth Robert HeronObservations Made in a Journey through the Western...Print: BookUnknown
1700-1799'Read Haslam on Insanity....'Thomas Green John HaslamObservations on InsanityPrint: Book
1700-1799'Some of the ancient philosophers held, that all deviations from right reason were madness; and whoever wishes to see the opinions both of ancients and moderns upon this ...James Boswell Thomas ArnoldObservations on InsanityPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr Young once told me, that Dr Hartley's Two Volumes on Man were the Most Original of any thing he had seen published of many years. He praised them; but owned, that one...Dr (Edward?) Young David HartleyObservations on ManPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge David HartleyObservations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser ...Lady Bradshaigh David HartleyObservations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his ...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"When John Brand had a copy of his Observations on Popular Antiquities (1777) interleaved to take materials for a revised edition, he drafted a paragraph of acknowledgeme...Francis Douce John BrandObservations on Popular AntiquitiesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Barrington's "Observations on the Ancient Statutes"; a well conceived and elaborate work...'Thomas Green Daines BarringtonObservations on the Ancient StatutesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson. "I have been reading Thicknesse's Travels, which I think are entertaining." Boswell. "What, Sir, a good book?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, to read once; I do not say yo...Samuel Johnson Philip ThicknesseObservations on the Customs and Manners of the Fre...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir John PringleObservations on the Diseases of the ArmyPrint: Book
1700-1799'[thanking Warton for a book he has sent ] You have shewn to all, who shall hereafter attempt the study of our ancient authors, the way to success; by directing them to t...Samuel Johnson Thomas WartonObservations on the Faerie Queene of SpenserPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: ms annotations in pencil on several pages eg: p. 47 at foot of page 'The English usually divide the Days into two parts only Morning and Evening - the Scotc...John Drummond Erskine John SinclairObservations on the Scottish dialect. By John Sinc...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Curwen's letters, I have recorded my opinion of the style, the commonplace of the abuse of tithes pervades the work tho' he fails more than most of the advocate...Benjamin Newton John CurwenObservations on the State of IrelandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent "Observations on the Statutes", Johnson waited on that worthy and learned gentleman; and, having ...Samuel Johnson Daines BarringtonObservations on the Statutes, chiefly the more anc...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry MoreObservations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica, and A...Print: Book
1700-1799'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery's might both be true, though one viewed Swift more, ...Samuel Johnson Patrick DelanyObservations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Lif...Print: Book
1900-1945'I see the "Obs[erv]er" every Sunday and I am waiting the next number with impatience.' [For a review by Sidney Colvin of "The Shadow-Line"]Joseph Conrad Observer Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have been reading his father's life. It explains the story ...Richard CumberlandObserver, The: Being a Collection of Moral, Litera...Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The Book Club members were evidently in no mood to aprec...Henry Marriage Wallis George GissingOdd Women, ThePrint: Book


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