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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The paper which should have been here yesterday arrived today, so that there were two this morning... I see by the Rockingham that the last voyage of the Steam Packets f...Robert Sharp n/aRockingham and Hull Weekly AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can be - which considering how I dislike that school I w...George Gordon, Lord Byron Robert SoutheyRoderickPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Wiliam James, 28 February 1877: " ... [Henry Sidgwick] has read Roderick Hudson (!) and asked me to stop with him at Cambridge."Henry Sidgwick Henry JamesRoderick HudsonPrint: Unknown
1700-1799I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captains over the Men, Esspeatialy the Sick, in a Most Shoc...John Yeoman Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomUnknown
1700-1799Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick RandomJohn Yeoman Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomUnknown
1800-1849'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes,...William Heaton Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Catherine Talbot Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Tobias SmolletRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1850-1899November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 14th October ?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. Gerald Moore Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked out by the name of Captain Gawky.'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1800-1849'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be...Thomas Carlyle Lady Sidney MorganRoderick, the Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849Francis Horner to his sister, 26 October 1815: 'I told you I was reading Don Roderick the Goth; and notwithstanding the romance of the original story, it was with fa...Francis Horner Robert SoutheyRoderick, the Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and challenges you fairly to a trial but after a seriou...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Roderick is safe depend upon it I venture my judgement on it very publickly that it is the first epic poem of the age - its great merit consists in the extent and boldne...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affect...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the age I have had some correspondence and a good deal of...James Hogg Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsPrint: Book, Hogg had also read the poem in MS
1800-1849'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the age I have had some correspondence and a good deal of...Francis Jeffrey Robert SoutheyRoderick, The Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Southey's long epic poem, called "Roderick the Last of the Goths", is the new work. Every one is busy reading it, or sleeping over it'.Robert SoutheyRoderick: The Last of the GothsPrint: Book


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