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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the flute: it positively frightens me - to realise this...Katherine Mansfield Virginia WoolfNight and DayPrint: Book
1700-1799'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published by Debrett, Vol.i. page 11. Bayle (says he) has a...James Lackington Jean-Jacques RousseauThoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Gene...Print: Book
1900-1945'There is also a "Greek Literature" by Gilbert Murray, the bad verse-translator, which I have read with dire anger, as he degrades Homer from a poet into a "question" a...Clive Staples Lewis Gilbert MurrayA History of Ancient Greek Literature (Short Histo...Print: Book
1800-1849'There is also among the papers, one piece of absurdity by Mr. Grantley Berkely, called ?Chariot versus coach? which I had previously read and returned, and consequently ...Charles Dickens Grantley BerkelyChariot versus coachManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next letter.' Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein'Considerations on the French Revolution'Print: Book
1800-1849'There is an advertisement prefixed to this number of the "Copper Plate Magazine", in which is given a list of the plates that have already been published in it amongst w...Joseph Hunter John WalkerCopper-Plate MagazinePrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There is an appeal in "The Syonan Sinbun" to stop the black-marketeering in drugs. Quinine is available at five cents per tablet - "a price well within reach of the poor...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is an article in "The Syonan Times" by Charles Nell about Malayan Shylocks.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it worth it?'Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen [unknown][book on wild flowers]Print: Book
1700-1799'There is an old English and Latin book of poems by Barclay, called "The Ship of Fools"; at the end of which are a number of [italics] Eglogues [end italics]; so he write...Samuel Johnson Alexander BarclayShip of Fools, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the book is great.' Interspersed and following are sev...Joseph Conrad H. (Herbert) G. (George) Wells Mankind in the MakingPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is here a Mrs Hutton of Birmingham with whom I have struck up an acquaintance because she wrote a clever amusing little book called "The Miser Married"'.Sarah Harriet Burney Catherine HuttonMiser Married, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'There is more censorship of the newspaper. It is cut about all over the place.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'There is no book which that word ["vulgaire"] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel to Jane Austen. She did not need the common material...Sir James Mackintosh Jane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'there is no news of the New York ship in yesterday's National Gazette of Philadelphia'.William Richard Grahame n/aNational Gazette (Philadelphia)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is no particular talk in this house except the slump in theatres, & the general & increasing badness of the 'London Mercury'. I find the L.M. very dull & pompous....Arnold Bennett London MercuryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I ...Jane Baillie Welsh Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon)History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England...Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I ...Jane Baillie Welsh Charles RollinThe Ancient HistoryPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas BurnetTelluris Theoria SacraPrint: Book
1700-1799'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of ...Hester Lynch Thrale William WhistonAstronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great...Print: Book


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