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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Nathaniel HookeRoman History from the Building of Rome to the Rui...Print: Book
1700-1799'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'. ('Constantine')Gertrude Savile Nathaniel LeeConstantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works...Print: Book
1700-1799Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his Eyes their Wildness lose And vows the keepers his w...Gertrude Savile Nathaniel LeeCaesar Borgia. A TragedyPrint: Book
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1800-1849		?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, which he did by converting folding doors into a green cu...Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel LeeThe Rival Queens, or The Death of AlexanderPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"I can see no difference between his case [Nathaniel Lee] and Shelley or Byron, except that they have method and he had none."Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel Lee Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Nathaniel Lee Print: Book
1700-1799'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"'John Fortescue Aland Nathaniel MarshallA defence of our constitution in church and stateUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Nathaniel WraxallHistorical Memoirs of My Own TimePrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. George Eliot [pseud] Nathaniel WraxallHistorical MemoirsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Nathaniel Bishop HarmanStaying the PlaguePrint: Book
1800-1849'To Fanny' 'Oh! Name him not unless it be/...' 'T Haynes Bayly'Carey/Maingay groupNathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly'The Forsaken to her Father'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'The Last Green Leaf' 'The last green leaf hangs lonely now/...'Carey/Maingay groupNathaniel Thomas Haynes BaylyThe Last Green LeafPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'I have been reading Wraxall's Memoirs of the House of Valois. it is a very diverting book. The discovery that I make from it is, that men were at that time sooner old th...Charlotte Bury Nathaniel William WraxallMemoirs of the kings of France, of the race of Val...Print: Book
1900-1945'He is about to go when he sees a copy of Bombers Moon by Negley Farson (8/6?). He picks it up to look at it. It interests him and he stands reading this completely o...Negley FarsonBombers MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring ...Negley FarsonTravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nehemiah GrewCosmologica Sacra OR A Discourse of the UniversePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Neil BellHandsome Langleys, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street. We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think wonderful in a way.'Joseph Conrad Neil MunroThe Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Excellent, the last number of "Maga".especially [...] Neil Munro's instalment' Joseph Conrad Neil MunroChildren of the Tempest Part 2Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nemesius of Emesa Nemesii Philosophi Clarissimi de Natura Hominis Li...Print: Book


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