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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and T...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterDie FlegeljahrePrint: Book
1800-1849'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richter and Jacobi, I ride, and hoe cabbages, and like Ba...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1700-1799Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate".Gertrude Savile Jean Regnauld de SegraisThree Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR FPrint: Book
1700-1799Tent all day light. Read Ugania [?] and Bajesett. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile Jean Regnauld de SegraisThree Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR FPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grieved me to see the august historian of astronomy, the...Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain BaillyMemoires D'un Temoin De La RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to write with great eloquence & perspicuity; but I have ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain BaillyHistoire de l'astronomie modernePrint: Book
1800-1849'Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's "histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]" His acquaintance with the science seems to have been more extensive than profound; his stil...Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain BaillyHistoire de l'astronomie modernePrint: Book
1800-1849'Judging from the Pamphlet, you gave me & which I have found very useful, the insects of the Rio Plata are tolerably well-known.'Charles Darwin Jean Theodore LacordaireM?moire sur les habitudes des Col?opt?res de l'Am?...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'Finished the 1st Volume and Part of "Du Bos sur la Poesie et Peinture"...'Thomas Green Jean-Baptiste DubosCritical reflections on poetry, painting and musicPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Samuel Johnson Jean-Baptiste Dubos[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Dumas's "Essai de Statique Chimique" - clear but too short.'John Ruskin Jean-Baptiste DumasEssai de statique chimique des étres organisésPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.Mary Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvraiM?moires de Louvet de CouvraiPrint: Book
1700-1799" ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'"Dorothy Wordsworth Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayNarrative of the Dangers to Which I have been Expo...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read Louvet's memoirs'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayNarrative of the dangers to which I have been expo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Louvet's memoirs all day'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayNarrative of the dangers to which I have been expo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Louvet's memoirs'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayNarrative of the dangers to which I have been expo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's Memoirs. I am much interested in Louvet -- but like all French men he is so in...Claire Clairmont Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvraymemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's Memoirs. I am much interested in Louvet -- but like all French men he is so in...Claire Clairmont Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvraymemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Nov. 1st. [...] Breakfast. Read Louvet's Memoirs.' Claire Clairmont Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvraymemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799'During the first half year I was at this school Mr Gibson got Moliere's plays for me in 10 vols., French and English, which I afterwards used to construe with Mr Suine. ...John Marsh Jean-Baptiste Poquelin[plays]Print: Book



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