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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899"Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but which told some things of interest to me."Leslie Stephen E. E. HaleJames Russell Lowell and his friendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the "exercises" of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers...Leslie Stephen Proceedings of the PBKPrint: Proceedings
1850-1899'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the 'exercises' of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers...Leslie Stephen Richard Watson Gilder[poem]Unknown
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant White[on Copyright]Print: Book
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen VariousSaturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant WhiteWashington AdamsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say that I am in perfect charity with my critic. I should...Leslie Stephen Henry SidgwickReview of Leslie Stephen's The Science of EthicsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I wo...Leslie Stephen Edmund GosseLife of GrayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I wo...Leslie Stephen William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doing everything I hate doing, I sat down in a very depr...Kate Perugini  Print: Unknown
1850-1899'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ? found it a tolerably thorough morsel. It is like wa...Leslie Stephen Chauncey WrightPhilosophical DiscussionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my friend, whom I expect to see again. The general eff...Leslie Stephen VariousSaturday Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ...Leslie Stephen G. B. SmithThe BrontesManuscript: article
1850-1899'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ...Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ...Leslie Stephen Emily BronteWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what it comes to, it is an elaborate apology for the mora...Leslie Stephen John Henry NewmanAn essay in aid of a grammar of assentPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Leslie Stephen's brother] wrote articles for the Pall Mall Gazette all the way out to India; enough, he says, to pay his passage; and some of them were amongst the b...Leslie Stephen J.F. StephenPall Mall Gazette, articlesPrint: Serial / periodical


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