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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Article, -- except what I learnt from [italics]you[end it...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart Boyd'Essay on the Greek Article'Print: Book
1800-1849Monday, 5 February 1827: 'Dined at the Royal Society club -- above 30 present. Went to the Society in the evening and heard an essay by Peter Tytler on the first encou...Walter Scott Peter Tytler'essay [...] on the first encourager of Greek lear...Unknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 20 March 1752:] 'As to Mr Pope, though I had some acquaintance with him, and admired him as a poet, yet I must own I never had an...Thomas Edwards Alexander Pope'Essays'Print: Book
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith'Etaples & the Air raids'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some char...Helen Rawlings Robert Browning'Evelyn Hope'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a short review of his work and a few hints as to the top...George Burrow John Masefield'Everlasting Mercy, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading the singular article on myself, signed ?C.S.?, in your first issue.' Arnold Bennett Charles Sarolea'Everyman' magazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life": 'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and no Eyes." It was written, I think, by Mrs. Barbauld....Elizabeth Missing Sewell Anna Laetitia Barbauld'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Faithless Nelly Gray'Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner [during stay at Marlborough College] my father was again asked to read by Mrs Bradley: "Will it be too cruel to ask you to read "The Grandmother?" [...] A B...Alfred Tennyson Thomas Hood'Faithless Sally Brown'Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. Wi...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord Byron'Fare thee well' (lyric verses)Print: Book
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the Secretary remembered that that indefatigable polish...Howard R. Smith L.P. Jacks'Farmer Jeremy and his Ways'Print: Book
1800-1849'Do you take Chambers's Journal? The opening article I like very much, on that beautiful line from Keats, 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'; another of the leading ...Eliza Ellis [Anon] [Anon]'Female Education. The Positive-the Possible'Print: Serial / periodical
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'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 Ibbot'Fit of the Spleen, A'Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] You may find wit and humour in verse, and yet no poetry. "Hudibras" has a profusion of these; yet it is not to be reckoned a poem. 'The Spleen', in Dodsl...Samuel Johnson Ibbot'Fit of the Spleen, A'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann...Claire Clairmont anon'Flores et Blanche-fleur'Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.)'Floure and the Leaf, The', attributed to Chaucer ...Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Celia Cole Robert Browning'Flower's Name, The'Print: Book
1800-1849It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps ...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book


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