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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c must surely be pictures from the Life. Becker says Ok...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleLetter dated 6th Feb, MunichManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleReview of Sir Walter Scott's 'Letters on Demonolog...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I durst bet, the Blacks have not paid you yet: they ar...Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Animal Magnetism'Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St Jo...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Joseph AddisonThe Free-holder, I-LVPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - which is a small [/] sin it must be owned, the said P...Thomas Carlyle Joseph PlantaHistory of the Helvetic ConfederacyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be...Thomas Carlyle Lady Sidney MorganRoderick, the Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be...Thomas Carlyle Lady Sidney Owenson MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spite of all one's efforts to the contrary - and to ent...Thomas Carlyle Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sentimentalist.'Thomas Carlyle Leigh HuntThe ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Atheism and Radicalism and other noxious isms. I had a ...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The Liberal", which hardly one of the Bibliopolists will...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Leonhard EulerElements of AlgebraPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d...Thomas Carlyle Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoUnknown
1800-1849'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind little note which you sent me, and acknowledging these n...Thomas Carlyle Margaret A. CarlyleLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle Mark AkensideNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's "Monk". It is the most stupid & villainous novel that I have read for a great while. Considerable por...Thomas Carlyle Matthew LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Book; seems well-founded, accurate, authentic; and with...Thomas Carlyle Patrick Fraser TytlerHistory of ScotlandPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it too Bob - You will get thro' it in a week - and cannot...Thomas Carlyle Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book


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