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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ev...Margaret Oliphant Review of the Life of George EliotPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'.Margaret Oliphant AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly now.'Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article on Hayward is very good. Sir Edward Hamley, I think?...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799The Iris came this morning, in it there was the following article: at Paris there is proposals for publishing by subscription Parisgraphy, or a language that may be read ...Joseph Hunter The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, ...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chalmers's great experiment in Glasgow, which I think a ...Margaret Oliphant [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria]Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1850-1899I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have taken during the last year. It has been more full ...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899One afternoon, very near the end, she begged to have "Crossing the Bar" read; and while the reader, painfully keeping her voice steady, repeated the last lines, the liste...Annie Coghill Crossing the BarPrint: Book
1700-1799I wrote out of the Monthly Review, an anecdote of Dr Franklin's [surgeon?] who said that the [king?] was the only gentleman in the kingdom. I began to make an index to th...Joseph Hunter Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799I wrote out of the Gentleman's Magazine the various [games?] assigned for the 9 of diamonds... to which I added my opinion on the subject.Joseph Hunter Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799I will here give an account of the Hymns which I could say ... This I have copied from Mr E[vans] writing in an old hymn book of mine.Joseph Hunter 'An old Hymn Book'Print: Book
1700-1799Two volumes bound together by Dawson and including his 'The Pages Where the affairs in this Book begin for 1723' and 'continued for 1724'John Dawson The Historical RegisterPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Apocalypsis graece Vol II (of 2)Print: Book
1800-1849Read as I have done lately, not for the pleasure of thinking: but for the comfort of not thinking.Elizabeth Barrett  Unknown
1800-1849Read, as I do every day, seven chapters of Scripture. My heart & mind are not affected by this exercise as they should be ? witness what I have written today. I would e...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] received a copy [of the Annual Anthology] in Aug. [1799], and discussed it in his letter to [Joseph] Cottle of 2 Sept.'William Wordsworth Annual AnthologyPrint: Book
1700-1799"In Feb. 1834, W[ordsworth] remembered having first read Crabbe in the Annual Register during the 1780s; there he also read Beattie's 'Illustrations on Sublimity.'"William Wordsworth Annual RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Bro [Barrett's eldest brother, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett] read prayers. Afterwards he read Lord John Russell?s speech on Reform, in the midst of which, I who am int...Edward Moulton-Barrett [prayers]Print: Book


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