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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'V.S. Pritchett had an uncle, an atheist cabinet-maker, who taught himself to read from The Anatomy of Melancholy, even acquiring a few Latin and Greek words from the not...Arthur Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of MelancholyPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Windsor, and writer of "The History of Gustavus Adolphus"...Samuel Johnson Robert BurtonAnatomy of Melancholy, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson opined that] Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation. But there is a great spirit and great power in what...Samuel Johnson Robert BurtonAnatomy of Melancholy, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale Robert BurtonAnatomy of Melancholy, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]		Knox Taylor Robert CecilA Great Experiment: An autobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation" [...] it appears to me that I have read in my life few more melancholy books'.Elizabeth Barrett Robert ChalmersVestiges of the Natural HIstory of CreationPrint: Book
1800-1849'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavouring as I walked over the grass to read a story in ...James Glass Bertram Robert ChambersChambers's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our four girls could see something of Scotland'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert ChambersDomestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certain power in tying a knot -- -- (in mating a system) -...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert ChambersVestiges of the Natural History of CreationPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 15 November 1827: 'Met with Chambers and complimented him about his making a clever book of the 1745 for Constable's Miscellany. It is really a lively work a...Walter Scott Robert ChambersHistory of the Rebellion 1745-6Print: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 15 February 1829: 'I wrought [i.e. worked at writing] to day but not much -- rather dawdled and took to reading Chambers' Beauties of Scotland which would be a...Walter Scott Robert ChambersPicture of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'which has much that is able, startling, striking; it is said not be be accurate in its details, & it obviously strikes out often at random, his account of creation does ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Robert ChambersVestiges of the Natural History of CreationPrint: Book
'I now, after too long delays, return you the Westminster Review, with Chalmers' Picture of Scotland; both of which I was very glad to see. The Picture is a very amusing ...Thomas Carlyle Robert ChambersThe Picture of ScotlandPrint: Book
'The Scottish Songs and Ballads, by the same collector, were a highly acceptable present to mel for which pray accept my best thanks. A work of that kind was certainly n...Thomas Carlyle Robert ChambersScottish Songs and BalladsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert ChambreSome Animadversions upon the DeclarationPrint: Book
1700-1799'Returned from S. Read as I came along a considerable part of "Cotoni Posthuma" which Mr M[anley] lent me.'Joseph Hunter Robert CottonCotoni Postuma: Divers Choice Pieces of the RenownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me at Christmas. More amusing than Eothen, but Doughty's...Siegfried Sassoon Robert CurzonVisits to Monasteries in the LavantPrint: Book
1800-1849I took up the Economy of Human Life, and was much pleased with the simplicity, ease and elegance of its style. The Biographical Sketch of Dodsley is drawn with much beaut...John Horrocks Ainsworth Robert DodsleyThe Economy of Human LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'bought Dodsley's "Trifles", a very entertaining book [in margin] Price 1s which Mr E. gave me to buy it with & has likewise given me the book.'Joseph Hunter Robert DodsleyTriflesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Dodsley this year brought out his "Preceptor", oned of the most valuable books for the improvement of young minds that has appeared in any language'James Boswell Robert DodsleyPreceptor, ThePrint: Book


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