| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Last night sleep departed, I read almost all night Nelsons life of Bp Bull James Clre | James Clegg | Robert Nelson | Life of Dr. George Bull | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affect... | James Clegg | Richard Baxter | The Saints Everlasting Rest. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | At night I read some of the lives and characters of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected ... | James Clegg | Richard Baxter | An abridgement of Mr Baxter's life and times. With | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | at home all day [...] at Oaks I met with Mr Laws practical discourse on christian perfection [...] I am now reading it | James Clegg | William Law | A Practical Traetise Upon Christain Perfection | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or... | James Keir Hardie | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in the trial of James Stewart for theft:
James James (Witness): "afterwards I saw the advertiseme... | James James | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
James Gideon: "On the 29th of October, between eight and nine o'clock in t... | James Gideon | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
James Palace: "A night or two after I read in the Advertiser a watc... | James Palace | | Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
James Collins: "I was sitting near the bar reading the newspaper, when I turn... | James Collins | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
James Harrison: "I know both prisoners. On the 7th of September, I was in ... | James Harrison | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Defence of prisoner in his trial for theft
James Lewis: "...we went to the Gun, and he asked me to go in; the gentl... | James Lewis | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
James Streeter: "...says I, Mich, how did you come by this, I am afraid you ... | James Streeter | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Robinson: "I was reading the newspaper..." | James Robinson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | ' ... James Losh reported in his diary for 4 Sept 1800 that Madoc "is ready for publication ... Southey showed me abou... | James Losh | Robert Southey | Madoc | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for libel; witness reads to the court the offending paragraphs published in newspaper.
J... | James Chetham | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for coining/forgery:
John Limbrick: "I am an officer of Hatton Garden. I was with Read ... | James Clark | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Canes: "I was reading in the newspaper at the public house that a man ... | James Canes | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness reads letter aloud to court as evidence in trial for assault:
James Locke: "I have the letter. (reads) 'To ... | James Locke | | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | Robert Michael Ballantyne | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | '"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot... | James Murray | William Henry Giles Kingston | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | About the same time also he read over St. Augustines Meditations, which so affected him, that he wept often in the rea... | James Usher | St Augustine | St. Augustines Meditations | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of... | James Usher | Sleidans | Book of the Four Empires | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of... | James Usher | | [various unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he assert... | James Usher | Stapleton | Fortress of the Faith | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | | Everyman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... [J. M.] Barrie's secretary wrote, "One of his great solaces was Anthony Trollope, whom, like many others, he redi... | James Matthew Barrie | Anthony Trollope | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss... | James Elroy Flecker | anon | Land and Water | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Charles Darwin | The Descent of Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | n/a | Mercure de France | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Moliere | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Gerhart Hauptmann | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Hermann Sudermann | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Henrik Ibsen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Jonas Lie | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | August Strindberg | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Honore de Balzac | Eugenie Grandet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev | Fathers and Sons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei... | James Buchanan | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei... | James Buchanan | | The Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei... | James Buchanan | Emanuel Swedenborg | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | | The Gem | Print: Serial / periodical, comic |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | | Magnet, The | Print: Serial / periodical, comic |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | | [Sexton Blake Stories] | Print: Serial / periodical, comics |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | George Alfred Henty | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Robert Michael Ballantyne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Frederick Marryat | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | James Fenimore Cooper | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Anne/Charlotte/Emily Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | William Prescott | Conquest of Peru, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | William Prescott | Conquest of Mexico, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre... | James Williams | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstam... | James Watson | | notice of political meeting | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? E... | James Walker Harper | Fidelis, pseud. | Thirty short addresses for family prayers or cottage meetings by Fidelis author of 'Simple preparation for the Holy Communion' containng addresses by the late Canon Kingsley, Rev. G.H. Wilkinson and Dr. Vaughan | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | "According to [James] Johnstoun, his supplement [to Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia] grew out of his affection... | James Johnstoun | Sir Philip Sidney | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | " ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in go... | James Henry Leigh Hunt | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Meditations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ... | General James Wolfe | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Copious marginal updates throughout the text. Many relate to entries and are linked to the item by an * ... | James Ker | John Burke | A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire ? | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: copious annotations throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by an... | James Ker | Edmund Lodge | The peerage of the British Empire, as at present existing, arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility ? to which is added a view of the baronetage of the three kingdoms | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as wel... | James Leigh Hunt | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally bel... | James Leigh Hunt | William Wycherley | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays ... | John James Raven | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by the... | James Watson | | [A history of Europe] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by th... | James Watson | | [A history of England] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passingalong Briggate one even... | James Watson | n/a | [a 'bill' advertising a meeting]. | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro... | James Watson | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roma... | James Watson | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro... | James Watson | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, wher... | James Watson | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, wher... | James Watson | Thomas Jonathan Wooler | Black Dwarf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where sh... | James Watson | Richard Carlile | Republican | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Eldest Brother - a warm admirer of it in general. - Delighted with the Portsmouth scene.' | James Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward - Much like his Father. - Objected to Mrs Rushworth's Elopement as unnatural'. | James Edward Austen-Leigh | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it [Mansfield Park] better than P. & P.' | [Mrs James] Tilson | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike ... | Sir James Langham | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easil... | James Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easil... | [Mrs James] Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Edward - preferred it to M.P. - only. - Mr. K liked by every body.' | James Edward Austen-Leigh | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is no book which that word ["vulgaire"] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel ... | Sir James Mackintosh | Jane Austen | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P. & P.' | [Mrs James] Tilson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Maga... | James Glass Bertram | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag... | James Glass Bertram | [unknown] | [various English periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | William Cobbett | Advice to young men | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | George L. Craik | Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | William Tait | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | St Ronan's Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor... | James Glass Bertram | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Lives of the players | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Sir Andrew Wyllie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin... | James Glass Bertram | John Galt | Annals of the Parish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tas... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Smiles | [biographies of men] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and i... | James Glass Bertram | James Lackington | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ... | James Glass Bertram | James Hogg | Shepherd's Calendar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Bentley's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavo... | James Glass Bertram | Robert Chambers | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi... | James Glass Bertram | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened... | James Glass Bertram | Mrs Johnstone | The Schoolmaster | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of ... | James Dawson Burn | Chevalier Ramsay | Life of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Warren | Diary of a late physician | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Warren | Ten thousand a year | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Er kehrt zum Vater wenn er die Erbs?nde verneint
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Der Raum enth?lt in Nebeneinader was nur in zeitlicher Nachei... | James Joyce | Otto Weinginer | ?ber die letzten Dinge | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ... | James Lackington | Plato | On the immortality of the soul | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ... | James Lackington | Plutarch | Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ... | James Lackington | Confucius | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My master said to me one day, he was surprized that I did not learn to write my own letters, and added, that he was s... | James Lackington | anon | various scraps of writing | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my fri... | James Lackington | Thomas Amory | The life of John Buncle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As to the little knowledge of literature I possess, I acquired that by dint of application. In the beginning I attach... | James Lackington | anon | various on divinity and moral philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Hesbert | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Tindall | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Chubb | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Morgan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Collins | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Woolston | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Annet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Mandeville | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Sheftesbury | [?] Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Bolingbroke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; ... | James Lackington | unknown | [English poets] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; ... | James Lackington | unknown | Various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I have also read most of our best plays.? | James Lackington | unknown | various English plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Tobias Smollet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Samuel Richardson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Frances Burney | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Lawrence Sterne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Le Sage | Gil Blas (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'But these extraordinary accounts and discourses, together with the controversies between the mother and sons, made me... | James Lackington | unknown | various | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answe... | James Lackington | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answe... | James Lackington | Wesley | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?? for a long time I read ten chapters in the Bible every day, I also read and learned many hymns, and as soon as I co... | James Lackington | Wesley | Tracts and Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I had such good eyes, that I often read by the light of the moon, as my master would never permit me to take a candle... | James Lackington | unknown | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer w... | James Lackington | Epictetus | Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer w... | James Lackington | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We all worked very hard, particularly Mr John Jones and me, in order to get money to purchase books; But what we want... | James Lackington | unknown | various | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 20 August 1814: 'Lord Rosslyn read to us "Lara," Lord Byron's new tale. It strongly marks his ma... | James Alexander, second Earl of Rosslyn | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and comment... | Sir James Mackintosh | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Hon. James Abercrombie to Mary Berry, 5 January 1820: 'I am reading Coxe's "Life of Marlborough;" the subject, in ... | The Hon. James Abercrombie | Coxe | Life of Marlborough | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ... | James Glass Bertram | James Hogg | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la... | James Glass Bertram | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Luc... | James Austen | Dr Edward Jenner | pamphlet on the cow pox | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement f... | James anon | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ought I to be very much pleased with Marmion? - As yet I am not. James reads it aloud in the Eveng - the short Eveng... | James Austen | Walter Scott | Marmion, or A Tale of Flodden Field | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the 9th mo. [1800] died Thos Rutter, of Bristol ... His amiable character is so ably pourtrayed [sic] in 142 & c o... | James Jenkins | John Tomkins | Piety Promoted in Brief Memorials ... Society of F | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me... | James Austen | Eaton Stannard Barrett | The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclinati... | James Stanier Clarke | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You were very good to send me Emma - which I have in no respect deserved. It is gone to the Prince Regent. I have re... | James Stanier Clarke | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Abraham Austin, carpenter and joiner, examined. I saw James... on Sunday morning again at my house, when he read the ... | James Hocker | [n/a] | Lloyd's Weekly London News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.' | James Montgomery | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Doge of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of Oc... | James Herriot | [n/a] | Kelso Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whenever I read in St Paul's Epistle on justification by faith alone, my good mistress would read in the Epistle of S... | James Lackington | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often privately took the Bible to bed with me, and in the long summer mornings read for hours together in bed'. | James Lackington | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Since the publication of the first edition of these memoirs, I have read "The Memoirs of Mr. Tate Wilkinson" patentee... | James Lackington | Tate Wilkinson | The memoirs of Mr Tate Wilkinson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I also received great benefits from reading Coventry's Philemon to Hydaspes; it consists of dialogues on false religi... | James Lackington | Henry Coventry | Philemon to Hydaspes: or the history of false religion in the earlier pagan world related in a series of coversations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was one day called aside, and a hand-bill was given me; and thinking it to be a quack doctor's bill for a certain d... | James Lackington | John Biggs | [conversion narrative] | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published... | James Lackington | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Thoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva, selected from his writings by an Anonymous Editor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A much greater man than Rousseau says, "The only remedy for the infectious disease of Fanaticism, is a philosophical ... | James Lackington | Voltaire | (possibly) The Philosophical Dictionary for the pocket, Written in French by a society of men of letters and translated into English | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "The following remarks made by the compilers of the Monthy Review for 1788, page 286, are so applicable to the present... | James Lackington | | Monthly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Should you, my dear friend, be desirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious w... | James Lackington | Antoine-Joseph Pernety | The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bouganville in order to form a Settlement there; and of Two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with An Account of the Patagonians. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther... | James, Duke of York | [unknown] | [paper on the faults of the Navy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | James Commeline to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 December 1827:
'Together with Mr Price's book, allow me to return you my be... | The Rev. James Commeline Jr | Uvedale Price | An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wolfe was a great admirer of Gray's "Elegy"; and as he was going down the river with his officers, previous to the st... | James Wolfe | Thomas Gray | 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mister Cairlil it appears has read Sandford and Merton: he may lend it to the rest if he sees good.' | James Carlyle | Thomas Day | The History of Sandford and Merton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 12 September 1921: '[James Strachey] is the easiest & gayest of companions. Here he leapt onto my bed, directly I left... | James Strachey | Jane Harrison | Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been perusing your minstrelsy very diligently for a while past, and it being the first book I ever perused whi... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received yours yesternight with the poem of [italics] the Sabbath [end italics], a good part of which I have alread... | James Hogg | James Grahame | Sabbath, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a present of a very elegant copy of the "Lay" lately from a gentleman in Edin. to whom I was ashamed to confess... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel, The | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | 'Glenfinlas; Or, Lord Ronald's Coronach' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | 'To Henry Erskine, Esq' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read several English reviews of my books at great length which are favourable in the extreme'. | James Hogg | | [reviews of The Mountain Bard and The Shepherd's Guide] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [a long anecdote about how Hogg found his correspondent Janet Stuart's book in an Edinburgh bookshop and had to pay 7/... | James Hogg | Janet Stuart | 'Ode to Dr Thomas Percy' | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Kehama has not got justice take a bards word who never flatters he will live for ever'. | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Curse of Kehama, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[italics] The Bridal [end italics] of Triermain is published. It is quite a romance of a lady that lay enchanted 500 ... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Bridal of Triermain, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A gentleman who deems himself libelled at in the Wake has sent a long poem to Edin. to be printed [italics] in quarto... | James Hogg | John Morrison | Hoggiad, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recieved yours accompanying the beautifull complimentary verses, which are judged by the small circle of my friends... | James Hogg | Bernard Barton | 'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of The Queen's Wake. By A Gentleman of Suffolk' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think the stanzas greatly improved and they are in the press as an introduction to the second edition of the [itali... | James Hogg | Bernard Barton | 'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of The Queen's Wake. By A Gentleman of Suffolk' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeb... | James Hogg | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeb... | James Hogg | | Scotish Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeb... | James Hogg | | Monthly Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the last No of the Scottish Review there is a very long and exquisite review of the [italics] Wake [end italics]. ... | James Hogg | | Scotish Review [sic] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn... | James Hogg | William Roscoe | [pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe' | Manuscript: presumably in MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | [pre-publication comments and marginal notes on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe' | Manuscript: presumably in MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn... | James Hogg | Walter Paterson | Legend of Iona, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many piec... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [juvenile poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the by have you read my friend Mr Crag's [sic] "Hunting of Badlewe" published by Colburne. If you have not I wish ... | James Hogg | J. H. Craig | Hunting of Badlewe, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray have you seen a poem that was published last year entitled "Anster Fair" I am vexed that it has never been notic... | James Hogg | William Tenant | Anster Fair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original producti... | James Hogg | William Tenant | Anster Fair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original producti... | James Hogg | J.H. Craig | Hunting of Badlewe, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original producti... | James Hogg | Anne Grant | Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The attact [sic] upon you in the last Edin. Review was too palpably malevolent to produce any bad effect on the publi... | James Hogg | | [review in the Edinburgh Review of Southey's 'Carmen Triumphale for the Commencement of the Year 1814'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Badliewe [sic] has not yet made great noise but has excited a deep interest in a limited sphere. It is reviewed in bo... | James Hogg | | [review in the Scottish Review of JH Craig's The Hunting of Badlewe] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Bridal of Triermain, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Corsair, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ... | James Hogg | Samuel Rogers | Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Roderick is safe depend upon it I venture my judgement on it very publickly that it is the first epic poem of the age... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the a... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Print: Book, Hogg had also read the poem in MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his... | James Hogg | Francis Jeffrey | [review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| | 'I have read "Ronald" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem S... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| | 'I confess I was pleased with ['The Lord of the Isles'] save the plot and augured good of it but I have heard very dif... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| | 'A friend brought me in the last "Quarterly" which I looked at tho' but slightly as yet not being able. There are by f... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | 'I was much pleased with your last Review upon the whole which was the only No. I ever read; it is a much more amusing... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | '"The Lord of the isles" is in [the Edinburgh Review] and seems meant as a favourable review, in my opinion however it... | James Hogg | | Edinburgh Review [review of Scott's 'Lord of the Isles'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | ' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first ra... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | ' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first ra... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hear nothing of the literary world very interesting except that people are commending some of Lord Byron's melodies... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Poems by William Wordsworth, including Lyrical Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must... | James Hogg | Thomas Moore | Irish Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Siege of Corinth, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Parisina' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touch... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Parisina' and 'The Siege of Corinth' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in li... | James Hogg | John Wilson | City of the Plague, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold ... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto III) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold ... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a proof of a review of my dramas by Gillies - the analysis is good but the whole of the part that refers t... | James Hogg | Gillies | [review of Hogg's 'Dramatic Tales'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excelle... | James Hogg | James Hogg | 'Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excelle... | James Hogg | | 'Letter to the Lord High Constable, from Mr Dinmont' | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot tell you how much I think of the Magazine it is so interesting and spirited throughout it is safe' | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh ... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anonymous poem and articles | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh ... | James Hogg | William Laidlaw | 'Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Some of my friends think that the introduction and moral of the "Frogs" are too highly wrought and polished for the s... | James Hogg | John Aitken | Frogs, The: A Fable | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have got the fourth canto to day - It is a glorious morsel!' | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto IV) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are some very able papers in the last Magazine as usual but I do not think the selection likely to add much to ... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, including the poetic 'Notices' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'This last is not near so interesting as the former, there is too much of pompous fine writing in it at least attempts... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite di... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite di... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I find your Mag. a great favourite in Dumfriesshire especially with the ladies. Macculloch had been trying to stir up... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear frie... | James Hogg | anon | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anon. political article entitled 'The Warder' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear frie... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Recollections No. I. - The Cameronians' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received your splendid work the other day; and have placed it in my little library, having only looked over the pla... | James Hogg | Robert Surtees | History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si... | James Hogg | Charles Howard | Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si... | James Hogg | | [unidentified sonnet] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si... | James Hogg | Charles Howard | Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'. | James Hogg | Thomas McCrie | Life of Andrew Melville, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'. | James Hogg | Thomas McCrie | Life of John Knox, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian T... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Recollections of Mark Macrabin the Cameronian' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I inclose you a very curious letter from a cousin german of my own to his son who still remains in this country. It h... | James Hogg | James Laidlaw | [Letter from America to his son] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'When ever I saw your Cameronians I knew the hand but I do not like your last ideal picture half so well as the one yo... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Recollections of Mark Macrabin, the Cameronian' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to ... | James Hogg | John Wilson | [ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to ... | James Hogg | | [ essay on H.H. Milman's painting 'The Fall of Jerusalem'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto... | James Hogg | John Gibson Lockhart | 'Testimonium, A Prize Poem by James Scott, Esq.' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto... | James Hogg | John Gibson Lockhart | 'Dietrich Knickernocker's History of New York' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Cameronian Song' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid... | James Hogg | Thomas Gillespie | [various pieces in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1820] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid... | James Hogg | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 'Letter to Peter Morris, M.D. On the Sorts and Uses of Literary Praise' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid... | James Hogg | John Galt | 'The Ayrshire Legatees; Or, The Correspondenceof the Pringle Family. No IV' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had within these few days a curious MS. sent to me by an English gentleman a Dr T. Brown who intreats me to ta... | James Hogg | T. Brown | Art of reading and conversing on the works of the living poets of Great Britain | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the "Parish Register" with great attention. It is rather lifeless and wants character and point but I lik... | James Hogg | John Galt | Annals of the Parish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I likewise received the Tales you sent me before from your friend in Edinburgh, and should have acknowledged them lon... | James Hogg | | [traditional tales] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have received the Mag. and like it exceedingly. The best for a good while' | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg... | James Hogg | David Laing | [review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Edinburgh Monthly Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read... | James Hogg | | [MS volume of Jacbite material] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well sir you have now put the crown on all the injurious abuse that I have suffered from you for these three years an... | James Hogg | | [attack on Hogg's 'Memoir' in the new edition of 'The Mountain Bard' -Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The article which I inclose "The History of Tom M. Fribble" is not mine. It is written by a Mr William Clerk a teache... | James Hogg | William Clerk | 'True, but Stupid History of Tom MacFribble, The' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a ... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a ... | James Hogg | John Galt | Provost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you... | James Hogg | David Laing | [review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'The Mountain Bard' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellan... | James Hogg | John Wilson | [various items in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am delighted more than I can tell you with Margt Lindsay. It is a charming work pure, elegant, and perfect; all sav... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Reginald with great care and with great interest. It is a masterly work upon the whole, particularly in s... | James Hogg | John Gibson Lockhart | Reginald Dalton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This last is indeed a [italics] redeeming Number [end italics] even if the fallings off had been greater Nothing like... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; 'Noctes Ambrosianae. no. IX' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength... | James Hogg | James Hook | Percy Mallory | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength... | James Hogg | William Maginn | 'Letters of Timothy Tickler Esq. to Eminent Literary Characters. No XII. To Christopher North, Esq.' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Wrestliana', in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you k... | James Hogg | Eliza Logan | St Johnstoun; or, John, Earl of Gowrie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you k... | James Hogg | | Northern Whig, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as ... | James Hogg | Susan Edmonstone Ferrier | Marriage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as ... | James Hogg | Susan Edmonstone Ferrier | Inheritance, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have looked over the articles Hogg v. Campbell and Noctes and am not only not angry but highly satisfied and please... | James Hogg | | [articles concerning Hogg's poem 'Queen Hynde' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not think very highly of last Maga This appears more spirited the former part of the NOCTES is very good my par... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Bl... | James Hogg | | [article on 'Agriculture' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Bl... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | [letters in ] Edinburgh Weekly Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articl... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Hints for the Holidays. No. III' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work... | James Hogg | R.P. Gillies | German Stories, selected from the works of Hoffmann, De la Motte-0Fouque, Pichler, Kruse, and others | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work... | James Hogg | Christian Isobel Johnstone | Elizabeth de Bruce | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have recieved your's with the £5 inclosed and also the two Magas the last article of each only I have read and dre... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect... | James Hogg | Thomas Hamilton | Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have recieved Maga with the inclosures safe to night but have only as yet got her looked over. For one thing I perc... | James Hogg | More | 'Hymn to Hesperus' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hate these things of de Q-s in Maga' | James Hogg | Thomas De Quincy | [articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marv... | James Hogg | James Hogg | Shepherd's Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am exceedingly disgusted with the last beastly Noctes and as it is manifest that the old business of mockery and re... | James Hogg | | 'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. XLII' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a new work lately come to my hand "The Jacobite Minstrelsy of Scotland" which is the most bare-faced plagiar... | James Hogg | | Jacobite Minstrelsy, with notes Illustrative of the Text, and Containing Historical Details in Relation to the House of Stuart from 1640-1784 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I enclose you two poems one by Mr Riddell which I have copied and corrected a sublime and beautiful thing, its only f... | James Hogg | Henry Scott Ridell | 'Ode to the Harp of Zion' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing n... | James Hogg | Thomas Pringle [ed.] | Friendship's Offering | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is ini... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not yet had time to read through the Twin Sisters but there is a certain stile apparent in the Fall of Nineveh... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received the foregoing little poem from a townsman of your's which I think so good I transmit it to you for in... | James Hogg | Mr Brooks | [poem] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous ... | James Hogg | | ['Literary Gossip' articles in Newcastle Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous ... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous ... | James Hogg | | [possibly] the 'Edinburgh Advertiser' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight y... | James Hogg | Caroline Bowles Southey | 'La petite Madelaine' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight y... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Unimore. A Dream of the Highlands' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my kno... | James Hogg | Robert Southey | [possibly] 'A true Ballad of St Antidius, the Pope, and the Devil' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have recieved Maga to night and looked it over but think very poorly of it You need not send any more of them as I ... | James Hogg | | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Who the devil was it who wrote the last article of the Quarterly? He is a lad of some spirit and I must have a half m... | James Hogg | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading Mansfield Park, which more than ever convinces me that Jane Austen is trivial, facetious and commonp... | James Lees-Milne | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Dar... | James Worsdale | Laetititia Pilkington | [verses on 'Stella'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Carlyle, I received your letter with the inclosed addressed to Mr Burns, which I had the pleasure of deliveri... | James Johnston | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 4 August | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale c... | James Worsdale | Laetitia Pilkington | To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ' have not yet seen him [Sir James Mackintosh], but I hear that he has read or has heard some chapters of "L'Angleterr... | James Mackintosh | Germaine de Stael | [writings about England, never published as 'De L'Angleterre', as originally planned] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | James Mackintosh | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | James Mackintosh | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | James Mackintosh | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the su... | James Mansfield | Jane Haldimand Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [papers left at his death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p... | James Boswell | John Hawkins | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is, in the B. Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I ... | James Boswell | Dr Warburton | [Letter to Thomas Birch] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have a... | James Boswell | William Mason | Memoirs of Gray | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his ch... | James Boswell | William Mason | [Memoir of William Whitehead] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda of his reading] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [original notes for "Irene"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The S... | James Boswell | [n/a] | Scot's Magazine, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Dodsley this year brought out his "Preceptor", oned of the most valuable books for the improvement of young minds ... | James Boswell | Robert Dodsley | Preceptor, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he was not altogether unprepared as a periodical writer; for I have in my possession a small duodecimo volume, in whi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [notes collected for periodical articles] | Print: UnknownManuscript: duodecimo book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I profess myself to have ever had a profound veneration for the astonishing force and vivacity of mind which "The Ram... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '["Rambler"] No 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicis... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought par... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly... | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | [essays] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to disting... | James Boswell | John Hawkesworth | Adventurer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [account given to him by Mrs Williams] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the 6th of March came out Lord Bolingbroke's works, published by Mr David Mallet. The wild and pernicious ravings,... | James Boswell | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | Philosophical works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In one of his little memorandum-books I find the following hints for his intended "Review or Literary Journal":
"[it... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [memoranda for a projected literary journal] | Manuscript: Codex, memorandum book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Let the Preface [to Johnson's Dictionary] be attentively perused, in which is given, in a clear, strong, and glowing ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [essays] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi... | James Boswell | [n/a] | The Universal Visitor | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Yet there are in the "Idler" several papers which shew as much profundity of thought, and labour of language, as any ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Idler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la... | James Boswell | Voltaire [pseud.] | Candide: Or, All for the Best | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan, in "The Life of Swift", which he af... | James Boswell | Thomas Sheridan | Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculc... | James Boswell | Frances Sheridan | Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] no... | James Boswell | William Whitehead | [poem on Garrick] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | James Boswell | Charles Churchill | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest... | James Boswell | Charles Churchill | Prophecy of Famine, The. A Scots Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thi... | James Boswell | [n/a] | Connoisseur, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Paley | Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jenkin's is the most copious and the best work I ever read in defence of divine revelation. It treats in a clear man... | James Lackington | Robert Jenkin | Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | James Boswell | David Dalrymple | [letter to Boswell] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia... | James Boswell | Frederick II King of Prussia | Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg. From the earliest accounts, to the death of Frederick I. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia... | James Boswell | Frederick II King of Prussia | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | James Boswell | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleas... | James Boswell | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was much pleased to find myself with Johnson at Greenwich, which he celebrates in his "London" as a favourite scene... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell to Johnson] Of the modern Frisick, or what is spoken by the boors at this day, I have procured a specimen. I... | James Boswell | Gisbert Japix | Rymelerie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He wrote a review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a Poem", in the "London Chronicle". He told me, that Dr. Percy wrote the... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | London Chronicle [review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a poem"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows :
"At church, Oct.—65.
" To avoid all singularity; [italics... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [journal] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He kept the greater part of mine [letters] very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to ... | James Boswell | James Boswell | [letter to Johnson from Corsica] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Bishop Watson | Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Bishop Porteus | Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Addison | Evidences of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Madame de Genlis | Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Bishop Butler | Divine Analogy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Bentley | Sermons on the Folly of Atheism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Jenkins | Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[James Edward Austen] read his two Chapters to us the first Evening; - both good - but especially the last in our opi... | James Edward Austen | James Edward Austen | unpublished manuscript story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr... | James Boswell | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr... | James Boswell | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Discourse on Inequality | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | James Boswell | Samuel Richardson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;... | James Boswell | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Richard Watson | An Apology for the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evid... | James Lackington | Beilby Porteus | A Summary of the Principle Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Joseph Butler | The Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | William Paley | A View of the Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Burges | The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Blaise Pascal | Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Joseph Addison | Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Stephanie de Genlis | Religion considered as the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Robert Jenkin | Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Bishop Horne | Sermons (4vols) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Samuel Carr | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Hugh Blair | Sermons (5 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | John Scott | Christian Life(5 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Augustin Calmet | Dictionary of the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Flavius Josephus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Humphrey Prideaux | The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Hannah More | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | James Thomson | [letters to his sister and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it a... | James Boswell | [n/a] | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | False Alarm, The | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a ... | James Boswell | Charles Drelincourt | Christians Defense against the Fears of Death | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a ... | James Boswell | Mark Akenside | Pleasures of Imagination, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.'
| James Boswell | [unknown] | [legal trial papers] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo... | James Boswell | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I... | James Boswell | George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra... | James Boswell | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and ... | James Boswell | Tacitus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Prayers and Meditations | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c... | James Boswell | Francis Osborne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c... | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ... | James Boswell | | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord... | James Boswell | John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did n... | James Boswell | [unknown] | [books belonging to Johnson] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Archbishop Laud's Diary I found the following passage, which I read to Dr. Johnson:
"1623. February 1, Sunday. ... | James Boswell | William Laud | [diary] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written... | James Boswell | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ... | James Elphinstone | [unknown] | [a recently published book] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [tale in Mrs Williams's 'Miscellanies'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [manuscript plan for a fable] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | James Boswell | William Robertson | History of Scotland 1542 - 1603 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first entire work that I read in defence of revealed religion, was Archdeacon Paley's View of the Evidences of Ch... | James Lackington | William Paley | View of the Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[W. H.] Brookfield writes [to Tennyson] from Sheffield:
'"You and Rob Montgomery are our only brewers now! A propo... | James Montgomery | Alfred Tennyson | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of t... | James Lackington | anon [Religious Tract Society] | tracts | Print: tracts |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not long ater this he brought from Bristol Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, 2 vols. 8vo. I having expressed a wish t... | James Lackington | John Whitehead | The Life of the Rev John Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I again took up Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, and as I saw by the title-page that it contained an account of Mr W... | James and Mary Lackington | John Whitehead | The Life of the Rev John Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of birds, I mentioned Mr. Daines Barrington's ingenions Essay against the received notion of their migration'. | James Boswell | Daines Barrington | [Essay on bird migration] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel... | James Boswell | David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes | Annals of Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is... | James Boswell | Izaak Walton | Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [diary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Be pleased to accept of my best thanks for your "Journey to the Hebrides", which cam... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophica... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of hi... | James Boswell | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | |
| 1700-1799 | Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress | Print: proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | James Boswell | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A Pindaric Ode | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | James Boswell | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Caractacus: A Dramatic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Thomas Campbell, who dined with Johnson on 3 April 1775] has since published "A Philosophical Survey of the South... | James Boswell | Thomas Campbell | Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty ... | James Boswell | John Scott | [Elegies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and newspapers, in which his "Journey to the Western Islands... | James Boswell | [n/a] | [various Scottish magazine reviews of Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had latel... | James Boswell | Giuseppe Baretti | [unidentified 'Dialogues'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | James Boswell | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | James Grainger | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson ... | James Boswell | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it ap... | James Boswell | Patrick Brydone | Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Letters to William Beckford Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Sunday, March 31, I called on him, and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered, his "Translation of Lobo'... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th... | James Boswell | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I hav... | James Boswell | | [Monthly and Critical Reviews] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him;... | James Boswell | Robert Blair | 'The Grave, a Poem' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the ... | James Boswell | Thomas Chatterton | [poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "There is much talk of the misery which we cause to the brute creation; but they are recompensed by e... | James Boswell | Francis Hutcheson | System of Moral Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I read this [Johnson's argument regarding a legal case on the liberty of the pulpit in which Boswell was involve... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [a legal argument] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | James Boswell | Colley Cibber | Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ... | James Boswell | Colley Cibber | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has... | James Boswell | James Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your paper on "Vicious Intromission" is a noble proof of what you can do even in Sco... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [paper on an aspect of Scottish law] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] You forget that Mr. Shaw's "Erse Grammar" was put into your hands by myself last yea... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [proposals for the publication of William Shaw's 'Erse Grammar'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Our worthy friend Thrale's death having appeared in the newspapers, and been afterwa... | James Boswell | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?' | James Boswell | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Memoirs and Last Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Theophilus Cibber | Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Patrick Murdoch | [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | anon. | [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | | Biographia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | | Biographical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by him... | James Boswell | David Hume | My Own Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I lately read Rasselas over again with great satisfaction'. | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , the | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] wrote also "The Convict's Address to his unhappy Brethren", a sermon delivered by Dr. Dodd [ a clergyman... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for Dr Dodd] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | James Boswell | William Hamilton | [poem on Winter] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | James Boswell | William Hamilton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an ac... | James Boswell | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some of the ancient philosophers held, that all deviations from right reason were madness; and whoever wishes to see ... | James Boswell | Thomas Arnold | Observations on Insanity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. ... | James Boswell | George Forster | Voyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [sermon written for John Taylor] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | James Boswell | John Taylor | Sermons left for publication by the Reverend John Taylor LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immedi... | James Boswell | Robert Plott | Natural History of Staffordshire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to... | James Boswell | Gilbert Burnet | Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of... | James Boswell | Matthew Prior | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; bu... | James Boswell | David Mallet | Life of Francis Bacon, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, a... | James Boswell | John Ranby | Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade | |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the Latin name of ... | James Boswell | Florentius Volusenus [pseud.] | De Animi Tranquillitate | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] The alarm of your late illness distressed me but a few hours ; for on the evening o... | James Boswell | | London Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned that I had in my possession the Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, the celebrated Scottish antiquary, and founde... | James Boswell | Robert Sibbald | [manuscript Life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[in a conversation about journals, Boswell said] "And as a lady adjusts her dress
before a mirrour, a man adjusts h... | James Boswell | Francis Atterbury | [Funeral Sermon for Lady Cutts] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles th... | James Boswell | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | James Boswell | Samuel Ogden | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if... | James Boswell | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon ... | James Boswell | William Dodd | Thoughts in Prison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";-... | James Boswell | Soame Jenyns | View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWEL... | James Boswell | Jonathan Edwards | [on Grace] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very... | James Boswell | William Marshall | Minutes of Agriculture | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him, that his "Rasselas" had often made me unhappy; for it represented the misery of human life so well, and s... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Boswell lamenting the dificulty of compiling a definitive Johnson bibliography] I once got from one of his friends ... | James Boswell | | [list of Johnson's works compiled by Mr Levett] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | '[letter from Boswell to Johnson] 'I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: proof sheets |
| | 'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca... | James Boswell | Joshua Reynolds | Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| | 'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell int... | James Boswell | Richard Allestree | Government of the Tongue, The | Print: Book |
| | 'In the interval between morning and evening service, he [Johnson] endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotion... | James Boswell | Blaise Pascal | Pensees | Print: Book |
| | 'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, ... | James Boswell | Thomas Parnell | Hermit, The | Print: Book |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | James Boswell | Hugh Blair | [letter concerning Pope and Bolingbroke] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'So easy is his style in these "Lives", that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when g... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of... | James Boswell | Herbert Croft | Life of Young | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent... | James Boswell | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [Life of Young in 'Lives of the Poets'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Miss Hannah More has admirably described a [italics] Blue-stocking Club [end italics], in her "Bas Bleu", a poem in w... | James Boswell | Hannah More | Bas Bleu; or Conversation | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'that gentleman [Dr Shebbeare], whatever objections were made to him, had knowledge and abilities much above the class... | James Boswell | John Shebbeare | Letters on the English Nation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | James Boswell | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be... | James Boswell | William Whitehead | 'Elegy to Lord Villiers' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as wel... | James Boswell | George Crabbe | Village, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'That learned and ingenious Prelate [Dr Hurd] it is well known published at one period of his life "Moral and Politica... | James Boswell | Richard Hurd | Moral and Political Dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons of the past and present age | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h... | James Boswell | Giovanni Paolo Marana | Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets ... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every ... | James Boswell | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wrote to him, begging to know the state of his health, and mentioned that Baxter's "Anacreon", "which is in the lib... | James Boswell | Anacreon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A pleasing instance of the generous attention of one of his [Dr Johnson's] friends has been discovered by the publica... | James Boswell | Hester Lynch Thrale | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was very quiescent to-day [17th May 1784] . Perhaps too I was indolent. I find nothing more of him in my note... | James Boswell | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I brought a volume of Dr. Hurd the Bishop of Worcester's "Sermons", and read to the company some passages from one of... | James Boswell | Richard Hurd | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Jeremy Taylor's using, in his forms of prayer, "I am the chief of sinners", and other such self-condemnin... | James Boswell | Jeremy Taylor | Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and litanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We may apply to him [Johnson] a sentence in Mr. Greville's "Maxims, Characters, and Reflections"; a book which is ent... | James Boswell | Fulke Greville | Maxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will... | James Boswell | | [books of Voyages to the South Seas] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I pointed out to him in the newspaper one of Mr. Grattan's animated and glowing speeches, in favour of the freed... | James Boswell | | [a newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to... | James Boswell | Anna Seward | [poem on Lichfield] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style.
In the "T... | James Boswell | Robert Burrowes | [Essay on Johnson's style] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | Henry Mackenzie | [imitation of Johnson] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | Vicesimus Knox | Essays Moral and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | John Young | Criticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two ... | James Boswell | Samuel Johnson | [MS Autobiography] | Manuscript: quarto volumes |
| 1700-1799 | 'there came out a Pamphlet setting forth the Felicity & Benefit of a numerous Offspring; some Arch Body of his acquain... | James Stonhouse | | [pamphlet on benefits of children] | |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a Conversation the King of Prussia had once with Marshal Keith the latter quoted Scripture: why Keith have you bee... | James Francis Edward Keith | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[James Mathias was on summer vacation and] when he came back my Father asked him what Books he had read - I read says... | James Mathias | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | James Martineau | James Martineau | 'Is there any Axiom of Causation?' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry an... | James | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standin... | James Hogg | | Shorter Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next year my parents took me home during the winter quarter, and put me to school with a lad named Ker, who was teach... | James Hogg | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'All this while [between the ages of 7 and 15] I neither read nor wrote; nor had I access to any book save the Bible. ... | James Hogg | | Bible [Psalms] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got... | James Hogg | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got... | James Hogg | Henry the Minstrel | Life and Adventures of Sir William Wallace | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standin... | James Hogg | | Bible [Proverbs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewe... | James Hogg | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewe... | James Hogg | | [theological books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewe... | James Hogg | Thomas Burnet | Sacred Theory of the Earth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Laidlaw having a number of valuable books, which were all open to my perusal, I about this time began to read with... | James Hogg | | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[regarding a poetry contest with his brother William, himself and another, Hogg says of William's poem] it was far su... | James Hogg | William Hogg | 'Urania's Tour' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[on receiving the first printed copies of his poems] no sooner did the first copy come to hand, than my eyes were ope... | James Hogg | James Hogg | [a pamphlet of poems] | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or liste... | James Hogg | James Hogg | 'The Queen's Wake' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the appearance of Mr Wilson's "Isle of Palms", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scen... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Isle of Palms, and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[on a visit to his publisher, Constable] I read the backs of some books on his shelves, then spoke of my poem; but he... | James Hogg | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I suffered unjustly in the eyes of the world with regard to that tale ['The Brownie of Bodsbeck'], which was looked o... | James Hogg | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admired many of his [Wordsworth's] pieces exceedingly, though I had not then seen his ponderous "Excursion"'. | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat... | James Hogg | | Old Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Young as he [Allan Cunnigham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his j... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his ... | James Hogg | Thomas Mouncey | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | [imitations of Ossian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a... | James Hogg | R.H. Cromek | Remains Of Nithsdale And Galloway Song | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.' | James Boswell | John Gay | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | John Dryden | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br... | James Boswell | [n/a] | The North Briton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br... | James Boswell | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This forenoon I read the history of Joseph and his brethren, which melted my heart and drew tears from my eyes. It is... | James Boswell | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening' | James Boswell | [n/a] | The North Briton | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion' | James Boswell | [n/a] | [Church service] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish' | James Boswell | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagern... | James Boswell | [unknown] | Lives of the convicts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir James Graham to John Wilson Croker, 18 September 1847:
'I have read in the newspapers with great regret, but wi... | Sir James Graham | | report of death of Lady Follett | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
James Dignum: 'I had heard something about the state of Lord Fitzgerald's healt... | James Dignum | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for deception:
William James Bedel: 'On Monday, 6th Nov. last, I saw this advertisement in... | William James Bedel | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | John James Cooper | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | John James Cooper | John James Cooper | [Essay on life and work of Goldwin Smith] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | John James Cooper | Goldwin Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | John James Cooper | John James Cooper | [Paper on Robert Bridges] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | John James Cooper | Robert Bridges | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816:
'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo... | Sir James Mackintosh | George Gordon Lord Byron | Monody [on Sheridan] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is
exhausted and palled, ... | Charles James Fox | Ann Radcliffe | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In [1802] [...] [Amelia Opie] published a volume of poems. It included those charming and
well-known lines, which, ... | James Mackintosh | Amelia Opie | verses opening 'Go, youth beloved...' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842:]
'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have l... | James Montgomery | Branwell Bronte | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:]
'There are moments when I... | James Henry Leigh Hunt | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Once or twice I left the safety of the trench and went out alone, down the hill towards Sailly-le-Sec ... I told myse... | Patrick James Campbell | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three o'clock. I was trying to read my book, but I did not take in what I was reading. Instead of words on the page, ... | Patrick James Campbell | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Read that," [Major Cecil] said, when he came to where I was standing.
It was an envelope, an ordinary envelope, a... | Patrick James Campbell | | | Print: Orders for the day. |
| 1900-1945 | [Campbell is describing entering a German dugout captured after a successful offensive]
'Their home was very like o... | Patrick James Campbell | | | Print: Book |