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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine pr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Mahoney[Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the pe...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine pr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Mahoney[Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart'...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'That autumn a friend sent me a booklet entitled "The Bases of Civilisation", by Dr. G. S. Spinks, one-time editor of the "Hibbert Journal". Reading it I found some sent...Vera Brittain G. S. SpinksThe Bases of CivilisationPrint: Booklet
1850-1899'that brings me to say how very much I enjoyed during Meta's invalid days reading again & with deliberation your Art & Study in Italy, - thank you [italics] so [end itali...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot NortonNotes of Travel and Study in ItalyPrint: Book
1850-1899'That Conrad book is magnificent.' Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Nigger of the NarcissusPrint: Book
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas HodgkinItaly and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I)Print: Book
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent...Edward Morgan Forster Virgil Aeneid (Book II)Print: Book
1500-1599'that don, I walked tell praiers, then hard Mr Rhodes read a chapter, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1850-1899'That evening [12 June 1878] the Schreibers read an announcement in the Times that Sir Charles Du Cane, whom they had expected to present himself as a candidate for Colch...Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber report of Sir Charles Du Cane's appointment to Gov...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobleman named Edward Bulwer-Lytton. She read and re-rea...Lucy Maud Montgomery Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1700-1799'that gentleman [Dr Shebbeare], whatever objections were made to him, had knowledge and abilities much above the class of ordinary writers, and deserves to be remembered ...James Boswell John ShebbeareLetters on the English NationPrint: Book
1900-1945'That I don't like refugees in fiction is perhaps easy to understand, but I don't even like the war and today's conditions ("Murder in the Home Guard" and similar titles)... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1700-1799'That ingenious and elegant gentleman's [Shenstone's] opinion of Johnson appears in one of his letters to Mr. Greaves, dated Feb. 9, 1760. "I have lately been reading one...William Shenstone Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very near to a case I read, long since, in the Trials of W...George Crabbe [unknown][book on witchcraft trials]Print: Book
1900-1945'That is rather a fine article on Hakluyt in this week's Literary Supplement and a good deal of it might stand as an apology - in the Newman sense of course — for my ho...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'That learned and ingenious Prelate [Dr Hurd] it is well known published at one period of his life "Moral and Political Dialogues", with a woefully whiggish cast. Afterwa...James Boswell Richard HurdMoral and Political Dialogues: being the substance...Print: Book
1800-1849'That Man, I trow, is doubly curs't, Who of the best doth make the worst, ...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam CoombeDr Syntax in Search of the PicturesqueUnknown
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1850-1899		'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible [...] ...Alfred Tennyson philosophical textsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible, and tra...Alfred Tennyson BiblePrint: Book
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1850-1899		'That my father was a student of the Bible, those who have read "In Memoriam" know. He also eagerly read all notable works within his reach relating to the Bible, and tra...Alfred Tennyson works on BiblePrint: Book


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