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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but at bottom another of the same.-'Thomas Carlyle Johann Gottfried GruberChristop Martin WielandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still easily fail to be a great man. You shall see his Bron...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon ByronThe Age Of BronzePrint: BookManuscript: LetterUnknown
1800-1849'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingto]n whenever you get there, with multifarious advice...Thomas Carlyle Johann Karl August MusaeusVolksmahrchen der DeutschenPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selkirk, which as I learn from this day's newspaper (aft...Thomas Carlyle [newspaper]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time. There is...Thomas Carlyle Edward IrvingFor The Oracles Of God, Four OrationsPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets toge...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleProofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers - there was a kind o...Thomas Carlyle Examiner (Newspaper Chat section)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - shallow and narrow enough it is true, but favourable a...Thomas Carlyle The ScotmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Did you get the two Examiners I sent you? The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was mounting the Coach at 7am, and what should I see in i...Thomas Carlyle Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhel...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller. I have got a copy of his Works beside me, which I have been glancing over; and I feel anx...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, which is at present stealing into what no...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's WanderjahrePrint: Book
1800-1849'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execute. I also wished to read Goethe's book, before dete...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMeister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume)Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under any weight that I can tkae from it... This letter is, ...Thomas Carlyle Jane Baillie WelshLetter dated 29th JanuaryManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order! Thank Alick and my dear Father for the pleasure and contentment they have given me: h...Thomas Carlyle The CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'There is a Spaniard here (one of the refugees) who from Catholic has become Protestant, a very honest shrewd little fellow, between whom and Irving I have had occasion f...Thomas Carlyle Spanish GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear Alick, No piece of news that I have heard for a long time has given me more satisfaction than the intelligence contained in your letter of yesterday. For severa...Thomas Carlyle Alexander CarlyleLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom he is in constant treaty about some important smelti...Thomas Carlyle BadamsLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furniture; ride home on it thro' the Peak country in Derby...Thomas Carlyle BadamsLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterLeben FibelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterHerbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitsch...Print: Book


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