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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'This morning we have read and talked — it's very wet so we haven't been out. I have been reading Mr Morley's "Walpole" which Sir Lewis [?Louis] Mallet says is supr...Gertrude Bell John MorleyWalpolePrint: Book
1900-1945'Out round waggon lines to fix new places to park amm. waggons and then round dump in morning. In after luncheon—Gibbs out. Read Morley's Robespierre—those times n...Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory John Morley'Robespierre: An Essay'Print: Book, 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 [end italics] which he denominates [italics] The Ho...James Hogg John MorrisonHoggiad, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Mr Moultrie's poem seems spirited but I have had no time to study it well.'Alfred Tennyson John MoultrieThe Black FencePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to postpone publication till my return to town.'George Gordon Lord Byron John Murray[advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers...Print: AdvertisementManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Yesterday I had a letter from Murray in answer to one I had written in something of a determined stile for I had no idea of permitting him to start from the course after...Walter Scott John MurrayLetterManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell John Murray (ed.)A Handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Cey...Print: Book
1800-1849'27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discourage...Amelia Opie John NewtonCardiphoniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are...George Crabbe John NewtonCardiphonia, or Utterance of the HeartPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messiah' (Forster's heading) noted underneath by Forster ...Edward Morgan Forster John NewtonSermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple')Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the dedicatory epistle to Dr John Newton's The Scale of Interest (1668). ...Edward Pordage John NewtonThe Scale of Interest. Or ye Use of Decimal Fracti...Print: Book
1800-1849'Recd by the Carrier last night from WM the Judgement of Sir John Nichols, on the burial of Persons baptized by Dissenters. I am glad to find that the survivors of such p...Robert Sharp John Nicholl[The Judgement Delivered December 11th 1809...]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar of Westham in this county, and part of three discour...Thomas Turner John NichollThe execrable practice of buying and selling livin...Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The anecdotes of Bowyer is to me a very entertaining book, I intend to read it through. I was much pleased with the following epigram by Sr Mr Brown "The king to Oxford ...Joseph Hunter John NicholsBiographical and Literary Anecdotes of W BowyerPrint: Book
1700-1799'The following story is taken from p 248 of the anecdotes of Bowyer. Among the innumerable stories that are told of him [Dr Brown Willis] [...] [1 1/2 page story].'Joseph Hunter John NicholsBiographical and Literary Anecdotes of W BowyerPrint: Book
1700-1799'Went to the library. Saw in Volume 4th of Nichol's "Select Collections of Poems" a poetical account of the monuments in Westminster Abbey, written with a considerable de...Joseph Hunter John NicholsA Select Collection of Poems; with notes (Vol IV)Print: Unknown
1800-1849'James Montgomery, Esq., a poet of great merit, edited at this period the Sheffield Iris, a paper of wide circulation, and penned a most flattering review of “Airedale,...James Montgomery John NicholsonAiredale in Ancient Times, Elwood and Elvina, The ...Print: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Beauty'. Lyttelton signals the continuation of the poem across three pages with a series of asterisks.Elizabeth Lyttelton John NorrisBeautyPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Love'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John NorrisLovePrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Plato's Two Cupids'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John NorrisPlato's Two CupidsPrint: Book


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