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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Song of the wives of the King of Cariba... Landar's expedition'Bowly groupRichard LanderRecords of Captain Clapperton's Last ExpeditionUnknown
1800-1849'Sonnet on Chillon "Eternal spirit of the Chainless Mind!, ..."'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronSonnet on ChillonUnknown
1800-1849'Sonnet on Chillon' [transcript of text]Emma Bowly Lord George Gordon Byron'Sonnet on Chillon'Unknown
1850-1899'soon after I took a walk as far as the Yorick. Purves was there & we had a little chat. I looked through "The Leader" & then came away home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main. I would study, I thought, with great vehemence, every night - and the two hours at noon, ...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: 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
1700-1799'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as...Samuel Johnson George CrabbeVillage, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as well as his obliging service to authours, were ready as...James Boswell George CrabbeVillage, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Soon after, the old mamma hobbled to me,? and began a furious panegyric upon my Book,? saying at the same Time "I wonder, miss, how you could get at them low characters!...Mary Lawes Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William WordsworthPrelude, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Cowper Print: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it while convalescing, he entered a state of panic that h...Douglas Jerrold Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sorrows for a Friend' 'O ye brown old oaks that spread the silent wood...' 'Clare'E.E.R. John Clare'Sorrows for a Friend' from The Village Minstrel,Print: Book
1850-1899'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Southey had certainly read Dubartas by 2 March 1815 ... 'Robert Southey Guillaume de Saluste DubartasDubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Pa...Print: Book
1800-1849'Southey's long epic poem, called "Roderick the Last of the Goths", is the new work. Every one is busy reading it, or sleeping over it'.Robert SoutheyRoderick: The Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Maid of orleans. From the specimens I have seen I am ...William Wordsworth Robert SoutheyJoan of ArcManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Speaking of Arthur Murphy, whom he very much loved, "I don't know (said he) that Arthur can be classed with the very first dramatick writers; yet at present I doubt much...Samuel Johnson Arthur Murphy[unknown]Print: Book


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