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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Voltaire. This Mock-Heroic illustrates several things -Fi...Thomas Carlyle Voltaire [pseud.]La Pucelle d'OrleansPrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos...Thomas Carlyle Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl...Thomas Carlyle Le Producteur, journal philosophique de l'industri...Print: Serial / periodical
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'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 Hugh BlairLectures on RhetoricPrint: Book
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 Richard GloverLeonidas, A PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was reading Pascal's "lettres provinciales". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the character of [italics]naivet?[end italics]which he h...Thomas Carlyle Blaise PascalLes Provinciales, ou les lettresPrint: Book
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'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'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack's snoring is not unknown to me; but poor fellow! yo...Thomas Carlyle Alexander CarlyleLetter (date unknown)Manuscript: 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'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'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
1800-1849'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
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 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to His SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words...Thomas Carlyle William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 volsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is the prettiest [that] ever was written for the Encycl...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleLife of PascalManuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text
1800-1849'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a few pages of it.' Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Henrich von der HagenLiterarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutsch...Print: BookUnknown


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