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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insinceri...Edward Morgan Forster James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945 I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is, in my opinion, a very fine book, highly distinguish...Arnold Bennett James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1800-1849'full of good & useful matter'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth James Kay-ShuttleworthProof of a report on Battersea Teacher-Training Sc...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'He has infinite wit and a great turn for antiquarian lore as the publications of Kirkton etc. bear witness.'Walter Scott James KirktonSecret and True History of the Church of Scotland ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and instructive work I still possess and read occasionall...James Glass Bertram James Lackington[autobiography]Print: Book
1700-1799'I went to Mr Gales to order two book which I saw at Birmingham [...] I brought the "Life of Lackington" from the Library who begun trade with #5 & now sells 100,000 volu...Joseph Hunter James LackingtonMemoirs of the First Forty Five Years of the LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I inclose you a very curious letter from a cousin german of my own to his son who still remains in this country. It has given me so much amusement that I thought it migh...James Hogg James Laidlaw[Letter from America to his son]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook James LawrenceThe Empire of the NairsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook James MacKenzieDiseases of the HeartPrint: Book
1700-1799[note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well understood. The author is master on his subject & ha...Anna Larpent James MackintoshVindiciae GalliciaePrint: Book
1800-1849'The review [by Maria Edgeworth] of "Les Peines et les Recompenses" [French edition by Dumont of Bentham's treatise] cannot please Sir Js Mackintosh because it expresses ...Richard Lovell Edgeworth James MackintoshEdinburgh Review [review of Madame de Stael's 'De ...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have just received my dear Mackintosh's 'History of the Revolution' ... I cannot read it with quiet nerves.'Jessie Sismondi James MackintoshHistory of the Revolution in England in 1688Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James MacPhersonThe Poems of Ossian, the Son of FingalPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley James MacPhersonThe Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated...Print: Book
1800-1849'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os...Samuel Bamford James MacphersonOssianPrint: 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
1850-1899'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossian [end italics], was at its height. Johnson had all...Samuel Johnson James MacphersonFragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highl...Print: Book
1850-1899'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossian [end italics], was at its height. Johson had all ...Hugh Blair James MacphersonFragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highl...Print: Book
1700-1799'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain shall we look for the [italics] lucidus ordo [end ital...Samuel Johnson James MacPherson'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossi...Print: Book
1700-1799'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of his journey by a very strict examination of the eviden...James Boswell James Macpherson[Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient ...Print: Book


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