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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti...Leslie Stephen unknown[French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti...Leslie Stephen George SandunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti...Leslie Stephen Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but nonsense of a genius & not without a certain point. ...Leslie Stephen Thomas CarlyleShooting NiagaraPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899 "If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy to read some of the old dramatists, being prompted by...Leslie Stephen William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: Book
1850-1899?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to read a whole mass of contemporary stuff wh. would sw...Leslie Stephen Thomas Aquinas Print: Book
1850-1899?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some of Ruskin?s manifestoes to the world.?Leslie Stephen John RuskinFors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers...Print: Book
1850-1899?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say frankly that I think the sheepshearing rather long ...Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed."Leslie Stephen Dante Alighieri Print: Book
1850-1899'I find distraction in writing, with a growing sense that it is not worth the trouble; but at 64 it is too late to learn a new trade. I read a bit too; though books have ...Leslie Stephen George SantayanaunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went through the whole. It suggested to me innumerable sp...Leslie Stephen Dante AlighieriunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as were apparently on a level with my comprehension?I fo...Leslie Stephen F W MaitlandHistory of English LawPrint: Book
1850-1899?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. There is a charming sermon on brotherly love; wh. he ...Leslie Stephen SwiftsermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly because the book seemed to me to be feeble rhetoricall...Leslie Stephen John Robert SeeleyEcce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus ...Print: Book
1850-1899?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan. I shall be happy to accept Hugo & if I have been ...Leslie Stephen Robert Louis Stevensonarticle on Victor HugoPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Have you read Mat Arnold?s letters? Some, I see, are addressed to you? I can imagine old Carlyle taking himself to be a prophet, as indeed he was; but Mat Arnold, I shou...Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldLetters of Matthew Arnold: 1848-1888Print: Book
1850-1899 "I was thinking of Eliot [Norton] the other day. When he was here in the summer he came one day to see Miss Valey. She had a pleasant little talk with us & was pleased, ...Leslie Stephen Margaret VeleyMarriage of Shadows and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Often I sat with her on Sunday afternoons before the fire blazing in an old-fashioned range which shone with black-leaded iron and gleaming steel. There was a home-made ...Tom Stephenson Chorley GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899: 'Father and mother are sitting by the fire, the one reading the Evening News [Bolton?], the other mending stockings.' [Bolton?] Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with ...George Eliot [pseud] Euripides IphigeniaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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