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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very clever; for, although she had received little or n...Jane Edwards BayleyDictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Joshua ReynoldsLecturesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Robert OrmeHistory of HindustanPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Rene Aubert VertotRevolutions of Portugal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Rene Aubert VertotHistory of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned b...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Jacques Benigne BossuetOraisons FunebresPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Jean Baptiste Massillon'Petite Careme'Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Isaac Barrow[Select Sermons]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Edmund [??] Barrow[??] Speech on conciliation with the American colo...Print: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Archibald AlisonEssays on the Nature and Principles of TastePrint: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile t...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Edward YoungNight thoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Letter XIII to Miss Reid, Fort William May 24 1773 '?He...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William ShakespearevariousPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasgow, Fort William, May 17 1773 V.1 p.90 'If Fort Aug...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John Milton[Works]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation, ?Tha solas an thireadh le sith, Ach claoidhidh fad...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James MacphersonThe poems of OssianPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy is the most finished, and excels in simple elegance...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Robert Burns[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, and most original in this respect, that I know not th...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Peter Pindar[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who enjoys, in a higher degree that "Eternal sunshine of...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEloisa to AbelardPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar April 11 1803 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am describing ?. 'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Laurence Sterne[Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charmed and elevated beyond measure ?'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Thomas CampbellPleasures of hopePrint: Book


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