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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Some little time since, I had the good fortune to find that there was at least one [one in italics] of your delightful books which I had missed - I mean 'In Trust' - and ...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantIn TrustPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, ...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion ...William Ewart Gladstone Margaret OliphantJerusalem: Its History and HopePrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chalmers's great experiment in Glasgow, which I think a ...Margaret Oliphant [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria]Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1850-1899I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a little work in the mornings. Margaret Oliphant A.P. StanleyA Selection from the writings of Dean StanleyPrint: Book
1850-1899I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have taken during the last year. It has been more full ...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath - with much virtuous indignation about 'Maga's' perso...Margaret Oliphant Andrew LangLife of LockhartPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book
1850-1899I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one might say the same of Miss Marie Corelli, who, by the...Margaret Oliphant Marie Corelli Print: Book
1850-1899One afternoon, very near the end, she begged to have "Crossing the Bar" read; and while the reader, painfully keeping her voice steady, repeated the last lines, the liste...Annie Coghill Crossing the BarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed out up to Magnus Simpson, came in, took out Leaves o...Robert Louis Stevenson Walt WhitmanLeaves of GrassPrint: Book
1850-1899?Another book, by the way, worth a glance is a collection of old S. T. Coleridge?s letters. I have had to write the beggar?s life & have a rather morbid familiarity with ...Leslie Stephen Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLetters of Samuel Taylor ColeridgePrint: Book
1850-1899'I find I have no time for reading except times of fatigue when I wish merely to refresh myself. O − and I read over again for this purpose − Flaubert?s "Ten...Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave Flaubert La Tentation de Saint Antoine.Print: Book
1850-1899'The authorship of these beautiful verses has been most truculently fought about; but whoever wrote them (and it seems as if this Logan had) they are lovely. What time...Robert Louis Stevenson Michael BruceOde to the CuckooPrint: Book
1850-1899'... but I suppressed it at once and kept on at Wodrow's Analecta (a Covenanting book) and made my notes as best I could.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowAnalectaPrint: Book
1850-1899?Another book is Jowett?s life; wh. I have read with a good deal of interest. It is too long & too idolatrous; but seems to give one on the whole a good account of the ma...Leslie Stephen Benjamin JowettLife and Letters of Benjamin JowettPrint: Book
1850-1899?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the p...anon Sir Alfred LyallVerses written in IndiaPrint: Book
1850-1899?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the p...Leslie Stephen Sir Alfred LyallVerses written in IndiaPrint: Book
1850-1899?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & so forth; but there is something curiously complicat...Leslie Stephen James A. FroudeThomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London 18...Print: Book
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899[Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Thomas HughesTom BrownPrint: Book


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