| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", a... | Hester Thrale | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale offered the kind of readings [of work in progress, ie Cecilia] Burney ... most valued, instant impression... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1782 Hester Thrale read the Spectator to her daughters, who found hilariously improper the "Idea of a Lady saying ... | Hester Thrale | Joseph Addison | The spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'This morning we had from the Library the Maid of Arragon, a Tale by Mrs. Cowley, ? & Mrs. Thrale began reading it alo... | Hester Thrale | Hannah Cowley | The Maid of Arragon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh... | Hester Thrale | Matthew Prior | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh... | Hester Thrale | David Garrick | [light verse] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Flatman | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | 'Dying Christian to his Soul, The' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean Jacques Rousseau | La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With regard to little French Epitaphs I have always had an Itch to translate them, & some times have fancied that I c... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [French epitaphs] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Greek Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dominique Bouhours | La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anon. | ife and Memoirs of Mr Ephraim Tristram Bates, commonly called Corporal Bates, a broken-hearted Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Laurence Sterne | ife and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Robert Dodsley | Collection of Poems by Various Hands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Boethius | Consolation of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francis Beaumont | Bonduca | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives the Spanish quotation] "Quien la ve no la e; quien no la ve, la ve".
I think the Jeu de Mots in t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [a Spanish play] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Marriott wrote the prettiest Verses in French of any Englishman I know'.[she then gives lengthy examples] | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dr Marriott | [French poems] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purpo... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Tag at the close of the last Act of Cato is written by Mr Pope, and is apparently the worst Tag in the whole Play... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Lord Corke | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here is an odd Book come out to prove Falstaff was no Coward, when says Dr Johnson will one come forth to prove Iago ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Maurice Morgan | Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Mr Pepys | [verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Gilles Menage | Menagiana | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Wooton | 'Ye meaner beauties of the night' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Hester Lynch Salusbury | 'Irregular Ode on the English Poets' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinar... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Sarah Fielding | 'To Miss Salusbury' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he [Mr Hale] was a clever man enough too, valued himself on his Literature, and made some pretty verses. as for Examp... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Hale | [translation of one of Martial's 'Epigrams'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I heard an odd Anecdote to Day of Fordyce the Dissenter, who wrote a few pretty little Essays lately call'd Sermons t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Fordyce | Sermons to Young Women | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I used to like following Verses vastly upon Garrick and Barry's playing King Lear a l'envie till I heard from good au... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses on Garrick's Lear] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Giuseppe Pecio | [sonnet to Voltaire] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I saw there [at Hampton] likewise a sweet pretty little Copy of Verses from a Gentleman to his Wife on the Subject of... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses to a wife, about a penknife] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he [Herbert Lawrence] wrote some pretty Verses and said some clever Things and I have a Loss of his Acquaintance. The... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Herbert Lawrence | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Ode to Indifference is a most superior Piece of elegant Writing The Occasion of it was however dreadfully unhappy... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Greville | Ode to Indifference | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'one Day in the Year 1768 I saw some Verses with his name in a Magazine these are they [the poem follows] I thought th... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [verses printed in the Gentleman's Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As my Peace has never been disturbed by the [italics] soft Passion [end italics], so it seldom comes into my head to ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Huetania | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Churchill | Prophecy of Famine, a Scots Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Churchill | Ghost, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'that Piety which dictated the serious Papers in the Rambler will be for ever remembred [sic], for ever I think - reve... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | Hester Maria Thrale | Metastasio [pseud.] | Adriano | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Burney] could write admirable Verses had he Leisure and Inclination so to do. He has shewn me in Confidence a lit... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [verses modelled on 'The Dunciad'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Jones | [MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'it was but last Week I read a new [sic] York Advertisement of Perfumery for the Ladies, Anodyne Necklaces for Teethin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [a New York newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in th... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Grainger | 'Solitude: An Ode' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon | Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Daniel Defoe | Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Arthur Murphy | Grecian Daughter, the: A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Lillo | London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Jones | Earl of Essex, The, a tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One could not bear to read a Page of the Gentleman Instructed now, & yet what a favourite Book it was - can that ever... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Darrell | Gentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Parker] shewed me a little Poem written to himself by an old Clergyman of sixty nine Years old just upon the Acce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses written to Dr Parker by a clergyman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immed... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Parnell | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | Rival, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | [Ode on life] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | Amurath | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | Adventurer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charlotte Lennox | Female Quixote, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| | 'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| | 'I was reading today where Menage tells a story of a notable fellow in his native town Angers, who was such a bustler ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Gilles Menage | Menagiana | Print: Book |
| | 'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough,... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [verses on death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Year... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Spring' | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Summer' | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire Naturelle | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Pennant | History of Quadrupeds. | Print: Book |
| | '[Having given her verses 'A Tale for the Times'] This wild irregular Measure is a sort of Favourite with me, I learnt... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Vanbrugh | Esop; a comedy | Print: Book |
| | 'I could not help thinking the other Day as I read the Epigram of Martial ending thus
Iam dic Posthume de tribus Ca... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Conjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | The Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea Project | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Southern | Fatal marriage, The; or, the innocent adultery | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Lillo | Fatal Curiosity: A True Tragedy of Three Acts | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Vanbrugh | Provoked Husband, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Old Batchelor, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: a Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| | 'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | 'Love Letter from Captain Roach to Mrs Rudd' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Mason | 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breer... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Grainger | [unknown poem praising Young] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'her [Fanny Burney's] Scoundrel Bookseller having advertised the Sylph along with it [Evelina] lately, and endeavourin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | The Sylph: a Novel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpon... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have this Moment put into my Hand a Poem concerning the Geranium Flower; tis not very long, and tis I think exceedi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Andrew Erskine | [a poem on a Geranium] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Burnet | Telluris Theoria Sacra | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Whiston | Astronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great Year MDCCXXXVI. Particularly of the Late Comet, Which was foretold by Sir Isaac Newton | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale proposes writing a comedy, but] as I have not a Spark of Originality about me, I must take a French Model... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Philippe Nericault Destouches | L'Homme Singulier | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Qua... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [ladies memorandum books] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & e... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner of Potter] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney has translated a provencale Ballad written by Thibout King of Navarre 500 Years ago, into the prettiest Englis... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [translation of a provencale ballad] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Law | Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '2 February 1780.] Here is Dr Pepys come with a Manuscript of Dr Spence's for Johnson's Use & Inspection now he is wri... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Bolingbroke said he learned Spanish so as to read & write Letters in it with only three Weeks Application, - Bar... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I read the Character of Cambray in this Collection, I could not keep from falling on my Knees to give God thanks... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The two Stories of Marlboro's Avarice are very capital: Sr Godfrey's Dream is [a] good Thing too - they are all too l... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | [Anecdotes] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Comus: A Masque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Matthew Prior | Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | 'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abraham Cowley | Life and Fame | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Critic, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Colman | Clandestine Marriage, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: proof sheets |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Matthew Prior | Alma | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Nicholas Rowe | Fair Penitent, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Philip Massinger | Fatal Dowry, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Bruce of Abyssinia has been greatly ridiculed, particularly for trying to make the World believe that the people in A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [a book of travels dealing with Abyssinia] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Nicolas Vauquelin Des Yveteaux | [a sonnet] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Walter Pope | Old Mans Wish, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Lillo | Elmerick; Or Justice Triumphant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Chevræana, ou Diverses Pensées | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given] | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anacreon | Anacreon to himself | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was shewed a curious Thing today - a Letter written by Lord Strafford to his Daughter three Weeks before his Execut... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Lord Strafford | [letter to his daughter, 1641] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the Wor... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Fulke Greville | Maxims, Characters, and Reflections | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctr Burney has translated the famous old French Chanson Militaire - [italics] all about Roland [end italics]: how h... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [translation of a French Chanson] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Fo... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Psalmanazar | [articles contributed to the 'Universal History'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's sev... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Joseph Sorbiere | Sorberiana | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses,... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | [MS of his translations of Homer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Johnson believes nothing - the Hurricane which has torn Barbadoes to pieces, & is related so pathetically in the G... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Love of Fame, The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean de La Bruyere | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When one reads in Fenelon's last Letter to the Kings Confessor "Quand j'aurai l'honneur de voir Dieu, je lui demander... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francois Fenelon | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Burney has permitted me to write out this Imitation of an old French Tale written in the Year 1548. he has alw... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | 'St Peter and the Minstrel, a Tale' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Way of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Piozzi] brought me an Italian sonnet written in his praise by Marco Capello, which I instantly translated of course:... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Marco Capello | [sonnet about Piozzi] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising up... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Odell | [verses on Franklin's stove] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh... | Hester Maria Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was however turning over Horace yesterday to look for the Expression [italics] tenui fronte [end italics] in Vindic... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Horace | '8th Ode' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Giovanni Povoleri | [a sonnet on love and friendship] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abbate Buondelmonte | [a sonnet] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs John Hunter, Wife to the famous Anatomist has made a Base to the Tune [reputed to be North American Indian]; & se... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anne Hunter | 'North American Death Song' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa
Who... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dominique Bouhours | La maniere de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit. Dialogues. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa
Who... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | 'Cadenus and Vanessa' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Pastorals | Manuscript: book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | 'Third pastoral' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Virgil | 'Second Eclogue' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Two days ago somebody shew'd me a Song written by the Duchess of Devonshire which began thus
Boy! bring my Flow'rs... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | [a Song] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Fanny Burney's] new Novel called "Cecilia" is the Picture of Life such as the Author sees it: while therefore this M... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its In... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'L'Allegro' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'Il Penseroso' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Savage | Wanderer, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Harrison | 'The Medicine, A Tale - for the Ladies' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [a story] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Sup... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Moore | View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simp... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Derham | Physico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr James brought me some pretty Verses about Melancholy written by a Boy; Mr James tasting Verses in praise of Melanc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | 'To Melancholy' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Lysons] brought me these Old Verses one Day, I think they are to be found in a book called Paradise of dainty Dev... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses beginning 'Pass gentelle Thought to her whom I love best'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Story of Bond expiring in the character of Lusignan is prettily told in some of the French Memoires, but one had ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [French Memoirs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better
than Madame Riccob... | Hester Thrale | Frances Burney | Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better
than Madame Riccob... | Hester Thrale | Madame Riccoboni | Tales | Print: Book |