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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgment under imagination] is kept up; while, in your more...Elizabeth Hamilton Hector Macneil[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased w...Elizabeth Hamilton Hector MacneilHarp, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased w...Miss H. Hector MacneilHarp, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H'.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased ...Miss H. Hector MacneilThe Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Wi...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.'Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Heinrich HeineDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Robert] Bridges had spent eight months in Germany in the 1860s, after going down from Oxford; and Heine's lyrics, among his favourite reading, had influenced his own po...Robert Bridges Heinrich Heinelyric poetryPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Meister till 10'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine"Donna Clara"Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeinepoemsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDie Gotter im ExilPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine[poems]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDe l'AllemagnePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare....George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDer SalonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy'George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine[on German philosophy]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesHeinrich HeineReisebilderPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, C...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Heinrich Heine[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I [...] was singing after my own fashion "Du hast diamentem und Perlen"[...]'Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich HeineDu hast Diamenten und PerlenPrint: song
1850-1899'Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly.Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich Heine[poems]Unknown
1850-1899[Transcription] 'Das Herz ist mir bedruckt und sehnlich Gedenke ich der alten Zeit; Die Welt war damals noch so wohnlich Und ruhig lebten hin die Leut. Doch jetz...Robert Louis Stevenson Heinrich HeineDie Heimkehr. XXXIX Buch der LiederPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted b...George Gissing Heinrich Heine[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'As a boy [Wilde] "cared little for German literature, excepting only [Heinrich] Heine and Goethe."'Oscar Wilde Heinrich Heine Print: Book


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