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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Queen, regarding which Forster comments: 'Interesting...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenPreface, The Maiden QueenPrint: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson John DrydenAbsalom and AchitophelPrint: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson John Dryden[preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3]Print: Book
1700-1799'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in 1762. Goldsmith asserted, that there was no poetry ...Robert Dodsley John Dryden'Ode on St Cecilia's Day'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but to the despair of my friends absolutely disliked it...Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Hester Lynch Thrale John DrydenMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Samuel Johnson John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping Stone or so; but you must always so dirty your Feet b...Hester Lynch Thrale John Dryden Print: Book
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these ve...Susanna Arabella Thrale John DrydenSong for St. Cecilia's DayPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale John Dryden'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting'Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'Drydens denunciation of Time & Space is by no means so ridiculous as Critics have pretended — I cry out agains...Robert Southey John DrydenOf Dramatick Poesie, an Essay Print: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde John DrydenPoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849'[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron [husband] a question. He sa...Anne Isabella Lady Byron John DrydenDon SebastianPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whi...Edward Pordage John DrydenThe Medall. A Satyre Against SeditionPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whi...Edward Pordage John DrydenEpistle to the WhigsPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Re...Edward Pordage John Dryden'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Me...Print: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a Poem (1682). Edward Pordage John DrydenThe Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 29 May 1754:] 'I very much wonder, how it came to pass that I did not hear a syllable of Mr Duncombe's performance, till Miss Sal...Thomas Edwards John DuncombeThe FeminiadPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that her father wrote the first two volumes: and in anothe...Samuel Johnson John DuntonLife and Errours of John Dunton Print: Book


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