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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are ent...Samuel Johnson [Spanish Plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are ent...Samuel Johnson [Greek tragedies]Print: Book
1700-1799'He disapproved much of mingling real facts with fiction. On this account he censured a book entitled "Love and Madness"'. Samuel Johnson Love and MadnessPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866: 'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for Park House, Maidstone [...] In the evening, at the Lu...Alfred Tennyson The Victim, or The Norse Queen
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866: 'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for Park House, Maidstone [...] In the evening, at the Lu...Alfred Tennyson The VoyageUnknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of...Alfred Tennyson 'Take My Love'Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 18 May 1867: 'He [Tennyson] read the new version of one of the "Window Songs," "Take my Love"; Heine's "Songs"; and some of the Reign of...Alfred Tennyson and sons (Hallam and Lionel) Flodden FieldPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867: 'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'.Alfred Tennyson Book of JobPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867: 'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'.Alfred Tennyson Song of SolomonPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 1 December 1867: 'A. is reading Hebrew (Job and the Song of Solomon and Genesis)'.Alfred Tennyson Book of GenesisPrint: Book
1700-1799''He spoke often in praise of French literature. "The French are excellent in this, (he would say,) they have a book on every subject".'Samuel Johnson [French literature]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the 'Book of Common Prayer'". DR. ADAMS, (in a very earn...Samuel Johnson Book of Common PrayerPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the 'Book of Common Prayer'". DR. ADAMS, (in a very earn...Samuel Johnson [various books of prayer]Print: Book
1800-1849'Let me remember, that though I now see, in all the prophets, the most valuable testimony to the truth of the Christian faith, a few years only have elapsed since I consi...Elizabeth Hamilton [books on the prophecies]Print: Book
1800-1849'The parable of the talents was one of the first passages in the New Testament that attracted my serious attention'.Elizabeth Hamilton [New testament]Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to H.M. esq] my poor brains have been of late so completely fused in the furnace of metaphysic, that they have become a complete [italics] calx [end italics]. I ...Elizabeth Hamilton [books on metaphysics]Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] My reading [on classical subjects relevant to a projected book] has not been, by any means, extensive; for the last ten years the weakness in my eyes h...Elizabeth Hamilton  Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] If you have not yet seen the Edinburgh Quarterly Review, I beg leave to recommend it your perusal, as a striking specimen of the abilities of a party o...Elizabeth Hamilton [Edinburgh] Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will read them through? A man had better work his way be...Samuel Johnson [books of Voyages to the South Seas]Print: Book
1700-1799'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will read them through? A man had better work his way be...James Boswell [books of Voyages to the South Seas]Print: Book


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