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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945I remember one morning, early, I found him in his study laughing uproariously: he was reading, in Proust's "Pastiches et Mélanges", the pastiche of Flaubert (and he had a...Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustPastiches et MélangesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley Jane PorterPastor's Fireside, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Michael Angelo's "Pastoral".'John Ruskin Michael AngeloPastoralPrint: Book
1850-1899'I never saw the book of Mr Laings ('Pastoral Visits') which you speak of; and I should much like to see it, if you have a copy to spare.'Lady Kay Shuttleworth Mr LaingPastoral VisitsPrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson Alexander PopePastoralsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked in the Margin: that he should Attain to Perfection by...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopePastoralsManuscript: book
1900-1945'Friday, 19th February, Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immense amount of talking, and were theatrical than they ...Gerald Moore Hilaire BellocPath to RomePrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair


1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...

Janet Rawlings William Fryer HarveyPatiencePrint: Book
1600-1699'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'Samuel Pepys Emanuel TesauroPatriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, pe...Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief introduction & read an article from Nov 1914 Scribners. ...Alfred Rawlings John GalsworthyPatrician, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, sh...Joseph Towers Samuel JohnsonPatriot, ThePrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'He [Joseph Simpson] wrote a tragedy on the story of Leonidas, entitled "The Patriot". He read it to a company of lawyers, who found so many faults, that he wrote it over...Joseph Simpson Joseph SimpsonPatriot, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott George CrabbePatron, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lord Ellenborough!!! from which I infer near & dear re...George Gordon Lord Byron Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion that can distract the human heart or agitate human li...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo...Frances Burney Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'Mary Godwin Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'Mary Godwin Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'I agree that Caroline [in Edgeworth's Patronage] is perfection. I admit that sh...Elizabeth Barrett Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's with the carelessness and haste a common Novel may b...Sarah Harriet Burney Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book


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