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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, and most original in this respect, that I know not th...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Peter Pindar[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads P.[eter] Pindars works aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Peter Pindar [pseud.]WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945'My library book now is "Byron in Italy" by Peter Quennell. I have not read much of Byron's poetry for many, many years. You probably remember the large volume of his wor...Peter QuennellByron in ItalyPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'.Virginia Woolf Peter QuennellByron. The Years of FamePrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 5 February 1827: 'Dined at the Royal Society club -- above 30 present. Went to the Society in the evening and heard an essay by Peter Tytler on the first encou...Walter Scott Peter Tytler'essay [...] on the first encourager of Greek lear...Unknown
1900-1945'For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: the book is on my table: I have the time. Why can't I ...Antonia White Peter Warlock[letters]Print: Book
1500-1599'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive notes in this area are found in his copies of [...]...Gabriel Harvey Peter WhitehorneCertain wayes for the ordering of SoldioursPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Peter Augustine BainesFaith, Hope, and CharityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you for your beautiful book, which I admired with my eyes and then read with great amusement.'Robert Louis Stevenson Peter Christen AsbjorsenRound the Yule LogPrint: Book
1700-1799'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female, and with it I took two young ones. It was not unli...Joseph Banks Peter Simon PallasMiscellanea ZoologiaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his profession in Norwich, used to read Italian with Rachel [her...Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and "C" familyPetrarch sonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Dec. 14th. [...] I read today some sonnets of Petrarch in an old edition -- Not the least attention was paid there to the concord of the gender & number of th...Claire Clairmont Petrarch sonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Petrarch "Trionfo della Morte"Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoub...Elizabeth Barrett Petronius SatyriconPrint: Book
1500-1599Marginal notes appear throughout this book, on almost every page. These notes range from comments written in Latin shorthand, underlinings, numbers marking particular pas...anon Petrus de Palude [?]Sermones thesauri novi de temporePrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday October 23rd. Do a fable and a half of Phaedrus. [...] '[Tuesday] October -- 24th. Do 5 and a half fables from Phaedrus.' [further readings in this auth...Claire Clairmont Phaedrus fablesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 12 May 1811: 'We have had no leisure for reading. I have not opened a Book except on a Sunday, and when the rest of the family ...Dorothy Wordsworth Philip BeaverAfrican Memoranda: relative to an attempt to estab...Print: Book
1800-1849'He ['my father'] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circumstances, struggling against difficulties and overcom...John Stuart Mill Philip BeaverAfrican memoranda relative to an attempt to establ...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Philip CarrThe French at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 3rd Vol of Dodderidge's "Family Expositor".'Joseph Hunter Philip DoddridgeThe Family Expositor; or a Paraphrase and VersionPrint: Book


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