| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he... | The Rev. Sydney Smith | Mary Berry | Preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he... | The Rev. Sydney Smith | Mary Berry | Life of Madame du Deffand | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | The Rev. Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1840]: 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand.' | Rev. Sydney Smith | Madame du Deffand | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1843]: 'I saw a piece of news the other day, in which a gentleman made his good fortune k... | The Rev. Sydney Smith | | Church appointment notice | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so muc... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Travels in North America 1827-8 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and u... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Travels in North America 1827-8 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. ... | Sydney Smith | T.H. Lister | Epicharis | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I quite agree about Napier's book. I did not think that any man would venture to write so true, bold and honest a boo... | Sydney Smith | William Francis Patrick Napier | History of the Peninsular War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ... | Sydney Smith | John Galt | Laurie Todd or the Settlers in the Woods | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ... | Sydney Smith | Lady Raffles | [memoir of her husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it onl... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with... | Sydney Smith | James Justinian Morier | Zohrab the Hostage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph... | Sydney Smith | (ed.) Lady Dacre | Recollections of a Chaperon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'. | Sydney Smith | Thomas Hamilton | Men and Manners in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I d... | Sydney Smith | Robert James Mackintosh | Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despot... | Sydney Smith | Antoine Beauvilliers | L'Art de Cuisiner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleas... | Sydney Smith | Frances Milton Trollope | Tremordyn Cliff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [i... | Sydney Smith | Washington Irving | Astoria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [writings on Indian Courts and Education] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'. | Sydney Smith | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Ca... | Sydney Smith | Henry Harpur Spry | Modern India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court... | Sydney Smith | William, Baron Stowell Scott | [reports of cases in the Admiralty Court] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the ... | Sydney Smith | (ed.) Mary Berry | [letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; b... | Sydney Smith | M. Guizot | 'Washington: par M. Guizot' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'. | Sydney Smith | [Mrs] Crowe | Susan Hopley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | Philip Doddridge | The Family Expositor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | [anon] | The Scholar Armed | |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | [unknown] | The Dissenter Tripped Up | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombard... | Sydney Smith | Mountstuart Elphinstone | History of India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plut... | Sydney Smith | Charles Napier | An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'. | Sydney Smith | unknown | A Life in the Forest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'. | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a... | Sydney Smith | Honore de Balzac | Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a... | Sydney Smith | Honore de Balzac | La Messe de l'Athee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am ... | Sydney Smith | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable ... | Sydney Smith | Leonard Horner | Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called "Arabiniana, or Re... | Sydney Smith | Theobald Mathew | Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequent... | Sydney Smith | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sick Room | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Channing an admirable writer, so much eloquence so much sense so much command of Language; yet admirable as h... | Sydney Smith | William Ellery Channing | [sermon on War] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; ... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'. | Sydney Smith | Arthur Stanley | Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'. | Sydney Smith | Horace Twiss | Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it wo... | Sydney Smith | Horace Twiss | Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details w... | Sydney Smith | (ed.) Richard Bourke | Correspondence of Burke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in... | Sydney Smith | Alexander William Kinglake | Eothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the East | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you... | Sydney Smith | Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.] | Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and gri... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'. | Sydney Smith | Frederick Marryat | The Settlers in Canada | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetchin... | Sydney Smith | August von Kotzebue | Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she... | Sydney Smith | Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de Staal | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written... | Sydney Smith | Archibald Constable [ed.] | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr... | Sydney Smith | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi... | Sydney Smith | William Jacob | Travels in the South of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi... | Sydney Smith | Benjamin Franklin | The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read Dugald Stewart's "Preliminary Dissertations". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his def... | Sydney Smith | Dugald Stewart | [Dissertation printed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the precedi... | Sydney Smith | [unknown] | [evidence of Elgin Marble Committee] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proo... | Sydney Smith | George Canning | [Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anonymous pamphleteer (John Cam Hobhouse, it transpired), who had attacked him] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Georgel and must say I have seldom read a more stupid book. The first volume in which he relates what he ... | Sydney Smith | Jean Francois Georgel | M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read the first and second volumes of the Abbe Georgel's Memoirs. You will suppose, from this advic... | Sydney Smith | Jean Francois Georgel | M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppos... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his no... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute nece... | Sydney Smith | Henry Brougham | A Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHAM, Esq. MPFRS upon the Abuse of Charities | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | Henry Fearon | Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | John Bradbury | Travels in the Interior of America in the years 1809, 1810 and -1811 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | John Palmer | Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, &c. &c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | Francis Hall | Journal of Travels in the United States of North America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ... | Sydney Smith | Morris Birkbeck | Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ... | Sydney Smith | Morris Birkbeck | Letters from Illinois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are som... | Sydney Smith | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a... | Sydney Smith | Henry Grey Bennet | Letter to Viscount Sidmouth, Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the Transportation Laws, the State of the Hulks and of the Colonies in New South Wales | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell my Lord, if he wants to read a good savory ecclesiastical pamphlet, to read Jonas Dennis' "Concio Cleri", a book... | Sydney Smith | Jonas Dennis | Convocatio Cleri | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ... | Sydney Smith | James McIntosh | [Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Refom] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ... | Sydney Smith | Edward Copleston | [Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency and Prinsep on Money] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it ... | Sydney Smith | Arthur Hallam | History Of Europe During The Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'. | Sydney Smith | William Heude | A Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overland from India to England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m... | Sydney Smith | unknown | [article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m... | Sydney Smith | unknown | [article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a... | Sydney Smith | Ferdinando Galiani | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Galiani's letters, but they are so utterly insignificant, that there is nothing more to be said of them t... | Sydney Smith | Ferdinando Galiani | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him ... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetit... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is ... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t... | Sydney Smith | [Captain] Gollownin | Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t... | Sydney Smith | Daniel Defoe | Colonel Jack - The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I strongly recommend to you Captain Golownin's narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertai... | Sydney Smith | [Captain] Gollownin | Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marr... | Sydney Smith | Mary Berry | Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell; followed by a Series of Letters from Lady Russell to her Husband | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Monastery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Abbot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published i... | Sydney Smith | Horace Walpole | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so tha... | Sydney Smith | Robert Southey | The Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Methodism Including Remarks On The Life And Character Of John Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Pirate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosion... | Sydney Smith | [unknown] | The Beacon | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a pamphlet of Cockburn's; rather good'. | Sydney Smith | Cockburn | [pamphlet] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is t... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you ha... | Sydney Smith | John Gibson Lockhart | Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be bett... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | Peveril of the Peak | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious pie... | Sydney Smith | Joseph Blanco White | Doblado's Letters from Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and there... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | St Ronan's Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it w... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'. | Sydney Smith | Jacques Peuchet | Memoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie-Antoinette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I ment... | Sydney Smith | Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord Normanby | Matilda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to ... | Sydney Smith | George Combe | [probably] A System of Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray read Agar Ellis's ' Iron Mask;' not so much for that question [that of old age], though it is not devoid of curi... | Sydney Smith | George Agar-Ellis, Lord Dover | The true history of the state prisoner, Commonly called the Iron Mask | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | William Pitt Scargill [anon.] | Elizabeth Evanshaw | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | [anon.] | Three Months in Ireland. By an English Protestant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'. | Sydney Smith | Henry Gally Knight | Foreign and Domestic View of the Catholic Question | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Bu... | Sydney Smith | Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary | The Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> oblit... | Sydney Smith | Clery | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making a... | Sydney Smith | Benjamin Thomson, Count von Rumford | Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Rennel has published two or three Sermons lately which I would advise you to buy: they are written in a style of f... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Rennel [ed.] | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort... | Sydney Smith | Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la Perouse | Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort... | Sydney Smith | George Vancouver | A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean And Round The World In Which The Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined And Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Parr's sermon and tell me how you like it. I think it dull, with occasional passages of Eloquence. His notes are... | Sydney Smith | Samuel Parr | 'Spital Sermon' | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Joshua Reynolds | Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Robert Orme | History of Hindustan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Rene Aubert Vertot | Revolutions of Portugal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Rene Aubert Vertot | History of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned by the change of religion, and alteration of the government in that kingdom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Jacques Benigne Bossuet | Oraisons Funebres | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Jean Baptiste Massillon | 'Petite Careme' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Isaac Barrow | [Select Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Edmund [??] Barrow | [??] Speech on conciliation with the American colonies | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Archibald Alison | Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to r... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be rig... | Sydney Smith | Mary Berry (ed.) | [Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and to Voltaire] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Edmund Burke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Suetonius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | William Godwin | The Inquier: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been reading Allen's account of your Administration. Very well done, for the cautious and decorous style;... | Sydney Smith | John Allen | [article in the Annual Register, 1806] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ru... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | [The Budget] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long ... | Sydney Smith | John Locke | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was my intention to review Ferriar's "Theory of Apparitions"; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is im... | Sydney Smith | John Ferriar | Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi... | Sydney Smith | Robert Ker Porter | Account of the Last Russian Campaign | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi... | Sydney Smith | Isaac Milner | [Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish ... | Sydney Smith | Maria Edgeworth | Eunice | Print: Book |