√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 David Vincent relates how the nineteenth-century apprentice compositor William Adams rejected his usual work associates and walking-companions after discovering Young's "... William Adams Edward Young The Complaint, and the Consolation, or, Night Thou... Print : Book1800-1849 From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10. Anne Lister Edward Young The complaint, or night thoughts Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 12 June 1796: 'Have you read Fawcetts Art of War? with all the faults of Young it possesses more beauties — & is in many... Robert Southey Edward Young The Complaint, or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, ... Print : Book1800-1849 What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words would often have been mine, if heaven had endowed me ... Anne Lister Edward Young The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edition at home (got another directly), the very lines y... Anne Lister Edward Young The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Print : Book1700-1799 'Tho. Davy to our house in the evening to whom I read two nights of "The Complaint", one of which was the Christian triumph against the fear of death, which must be allow... Thomas Turner Edward Young The Complaint: or night thoughts Print : Book1700-1799 'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock on death. I now having read "The Complaint" through... Thomas Turner Edward Young The Complaint: or night thoughts Print : Book1800-1849 ?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their old companion was not going to join them. I heard fro... William Edwin Adams Edward Young The Complaint: or night thoughts Print : Book1800-1849 From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, beginning 'Celestial Happiness, when’er she stoops. To visi... Catherine Austen Edward Young The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & ... Unknown 1900-1945 'The past few months have been a new world [...] the age that has gone by since I read Young’s “Night Thoughts” in the dugout at Cuinchy. And, now I think of it, I forgot... Edmund Blunden Edward Young The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,... Print : Book1900-1945 ‘I never visited this dungeon without repeating from Young’s “Night Thoughts”, often in my pocket, the just words, ”Dreadful post of observation! Darker every hour.”'
... Edmund Blunden Edward Young The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,... Print : Book1900-1945 'During this period my indebtedness to an eighteenth-century poet became enormous. At every spare moment I read Young’s “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, ... Edmund Blunden Edward Young The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts, on Life, Death,... Print : Book1900-1945 'Wednesday, 3rd February,
Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint and so nice in these shallow times that it is one lo... Gerald Moore Isaac Walton The Compleat Angler Print : Book1800-1849 'The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him discourse of fish ponds & fishing. What a delightfu... John Clare Izaak Walton The Complete Angler Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Philip Skelton The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Philip Skelton Print : Book1700-1799 'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured to support the Dean of St. Patrick's, by various arg... Dr Douglas Jonathan Swift The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministr... Print : Pamphlet1700-1799 'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured to support the Dean of St. Patrick's, by various arg... Samuel Johnson Jonathan Swift The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministr... Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown] The Conduct of the British Government towards the ... Print : Book1850-1899 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is your connection with Burslem & the potteries, Bursl... Arnold Bennett H.G. Wells The Cone in 'The Plattner Story and Others' Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.' Emma Darwin Jean-Jaques Rousseau The Confessions of Jean-Jaques Rousseau Print : Book
