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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a true British subject, is rebelling not a little aga...Thomas Carlyle unknown["black-letter poems"]Print: Book
1800-1849'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy compagnons de voyage (for I came in the Mail from Moff...Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell[a mathematical paper]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ...Thomas Carlyle [unknown][an Italian Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'A-propos of Authors - This evening at tea, Miss Ramsay (our governess) inquired at me if I had read that affecting representation of the Calamities of Literary men, in t...Thomas Carlyle Thomas Murray[article entitled 'An Affecting Occurrence']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl...Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey[article in Quarterly Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace[article on Fluxions in Encyclopaedia Britannica]Print: Book
1800-1849'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl...Thomas Carlyle Thomas Chalmers[article on paperism in Edinburgh Review]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 Moliere [pseud.][Comedies]Print: Book
1800-1849'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition...Thomas Carlyle Thomas Murray[critique of William Nicholson's works in 'The Cou...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysic...Thomas Carlyle Thomas or William Belsham[either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essa...Print: Book
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 Robert Southey[essay in the Quarterly Review on Lewis and Clarke...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition...Thomas Carlyle W. Scott Irving[essays on Burns and monuments]Print: Serial / periodical
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 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued epistle of my friend. Doubtless you are disposed to...Thomas Carlyle various[histories]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysic...Thomas Carlyle Dugald Stewart[Introductory essay to Encyclopaedia Britannica]Print: Book
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 noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition...Thomas Carlyle W. Scott Irving[poem celebrating peace at end of Napoleonic wars]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle Richard Savage[Poems]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord Byron[Poems]Print: Book


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