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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
1800-1849'[Tuesday] October -- 24th. [...] Read a little of Bolingbroke's Political Works.' Claire Clairmont Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke'Political Works'Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Strachey's "Narrative History of Persia" ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone Henry StracheyA narrative of the mutiny of the officers of the a...Print: Book
1800-1849'By a quaint coincidence I received your letter directed (I suppose) by Phillip van Artevelde with Philip himself (not the man but the book) and I wish to tell you that I...Alfred Tennyson Henry TaylorPhilip van ArteveldePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: 'I suppose by an opinion upon Taylor you mean nothing elaborate -- & indeed I am not ...Elizabeth Barrett Henry TaylorPhilip van ArteveldePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Friends in Council'.' Mary Holland Henry TaylorNotes From Books, in Four EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Henry Taylor Print: Book
1800-1849‘I have read [Henry] Taylor’s Philip Van Artevelde. It is admirable.’Hartley Coleridge Henry TaylorPhilip van ArteveldePrint: Book
1800-1849And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposite, wondering when it will be dinner time, and cursi...Charles Dickens Henry Torrens [Sir]Field exercises and evolutions of the armyPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: 'Somebody (a painter I believe — Tresham?) has [MS torn] a poem called the Sea Sick Minstrel lately. tis a v...Robert Southey Henry TreshamThe Sea-Sick Minstrel; or, Maritime Sorrows. A Poe...Print: Book
1900-1945'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise ...Henry Van DykeThe Other Wise ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanSilex ScintillansPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanThey are all gone into the world of lightPrint: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginnin...Edward Morgan Forster Henry Vaughan'Quickness'Print: Book
1800-1849'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease and power of the former, the labour and short fallin...John Ruskin Henry Vaughan[poems]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In literature it is only in Vaughan, Traherne, and other mystics, that I find any adequate expression of that perpetual rapturous delight in nature and my own ex...William Henry Hudson Henry Vaughan[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the...Jem Parsons Henry WatsonValentine and OrsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 10 March 1826: '[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer and a remarkable antiquary. He publishd a collecti...Walter Scott Henry WeberMetrical RomancesPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the morning read part of a book entitled "A Defence of Plurality of Church Benefices", but I cannot be persuaded by his reasons that it is always beneficial to promot...Thomas Turner Henry WhartonA defence of pluralities, or, holding two benefice...Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson said, I might see the subject [a controversy about the Church of Scotland] well treated in the "Defence of Pluralities".' Samuel Johnson Henry WhartonDefence of Pluralities, APrint: Book


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