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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. As I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ...Robert Southey Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even Mr Tipper read to me part of a -I know not what to call it but "Tristram Shandy".'Thomas Tipper Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Who is this Yorick? you are pleased to ask me. You cannot, I imagine have looked into his books: execrable I cannot but call them; for I am told that the third and fourt...Samuel Richardson Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
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'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Tristram Shandy might say requires a Chapter in itself'.Lady Caroline Lamb Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.'Jane Austen Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilated, and infinitely preferable to his tiresome "Trist...Horace Walpole Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"; [borrowed from Mr Manley on visit to Stammington, July 7 1798] It has of late become the fashion to cry down Sterne as the greatest ...Joseph Hunter Lawrence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy [in 2 vol...Print: Book
1800-1849'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spite of all one's efforts to the contrary - and to ent...Thomas Carlyle Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold'Mary Shelley Laurence Sterne[probably] Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tristram Shandy.'Mary Shelley Laurence SterneLife and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey - Zadig and Clarke'Mary Shelley Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Feb. 27th. [...] Read Tristram Shandy.'Claire Clairmont Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1900-1945[following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii] 'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defence -- probably typical of Sterne, whom I have begun ...Edward Morgan Forster Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1700-1799'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolled by mere chance into a Bookseller's Shop, where how...Hester Lynch Thrale Laurence Sterneife and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-1899Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897.George Otto Trevelyan Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 10 October and 19 November 1880] 'The evening readings of Tristram Shandy created in Lady Charlotte a feeling of disgust, and she thought ...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberLaurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Shandy [end italics] said "our armies swore terribly in...Albert John Martin Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have read today ... some 10 pages of "Tristram Shandy" and am wondering whether I like it. It is certainly the maddest book ever written.... It gives you the imp...Clive Staples Lewis Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1700-1799"Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."Dorothy Wordsworth Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o...William Wordsworth Lawrence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book



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