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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and T...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterDie FlegeljahrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger...Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius LafontaineRaphaelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger...Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius LafontaineRudolph von WerdenbergPrint: Book
1800-1849'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger...Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius LafontaineTinchen oder die MannerprobePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; but at present I submit to it with equanimity, and e...Thomas Carlyle unknown[German novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richter and Jacobi, I ride, and hoe cabbages, and like Ba...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'How kind, how simple, true and good! Beautifully welcome, in my sombre vacancy here! (Dumfries, Septr, 1868) This Letter to my Mother (dear kind Letter!) I must have br...Thomas Carlyle Jane Baillie WelshLetter dated 9 October 1825Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842: 'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of them over again [goes on to praise Poems further, citi...Thomas Carlyle Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far t...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleThesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (...Manuscript: Degree thesis
1800-1849I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a quarter of a volume of Proofs, or I should have answer...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleProofsPrint: Proofs
1800-1849'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alteration of which, attended with other sorry enough drawb...Thomas Carlyle Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the Title-page and Preface; then Jonathan on Wednesday m...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleTitle page and preface of 'German Romance'Print: Title page and prefaceManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage. Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcen...Thomas Carlyle Immanuel KantThe Critique of Pure ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was very much obliged by your copy of Doering's Jean Paul and the manuscript sent along with it; whch tho' too late for assisting my printed critical labours I perused...Thomas Carlyle JMH DoringJean Paul Richters LebenPrint: Book
1800-1849'This day I was in the Advocates Library seeking German Books, and I found (directed by Dr Irving) the first Article in the Monthly Review devoted to our "German Romance"...Thomas Carlyle anonReview of 'German Romance'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guineas for the article on Richter. You may conceive wh...Thomas Carlyle Franz HornUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surprise and approbation by the Universe. Thus for insta...Thomas Carlyle Thomas de QuinceyReview of 'State of German Literature'Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in the Preface about this very book. Be so good as to lo...Thomas Carlyle George MoirPreface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schil...Print: Book
1800-1849'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Goethe, to Irving, to Buller, to Brewster &c &c. Thes...Thomas Carlyle David (dr) BrewsterRecommendationManuscript: Letter of recommendation
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


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