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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert LeightonThe Expository Works and Other Remains of Archbish...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert LeightonThe Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop o...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert LeightonThe Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop o...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert LeightonThe Whole Works of Robert Leighton, D.D.Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1765:] 'The book I am happiest in reading at present, is a volume of Sermons of Abp. Leighton, strongly recommended to m...Catherine Talbot Robert LeightonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 November 1765:] 'Abp. Leighton's works are great favourites with me at present. There is, I think, the best exposition of the...Catherine Talbot Robert LeightonWorks including 'Exposition of the Lord's Prayer'Print: Book
1850-1899'I met a rum old army doctor, called Lewins, who sent me a paper of his, full of matter that would not be very gratifying to the elect: In which paper he has the followin...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert LewinsunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Robert Lindsay of PitscottieChronicles of ScotlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonWreckerPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 August 1797: '...tis in the translation of the huge romance Cleopatra by a Robert Loveday, who from the recommendatory...Robert Southey Robert Loveday CléopâtrePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple ...Robert Southey Robert LovellversesUnknown
1700-1799'What is become of Moschus? You sported some of his sublimities, I see, in your Watchman. Very decent things.'Charles Lamb Robert LovellThe WatchmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."Henry James Robert LowellpoemPrint: Serial / periodical
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a french has/ very often more than/forty"; (2) "The Engl...Miss Erskine Robert LowthA short introduction to English grammar: with crit...Print: Book
1850-1899'...my father read aloud. He was a beautiful reader and I enjoyed much of what he read, but I have to confess that I got terribly bored by his own long narrative poems......Emily Lytton Robert Lytton Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Macfarlane's "History of George III.": a strange amalgama of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded into a specious and shewy mass, by a morbid vigour of...Thomas Green Robert MacfarlaneHistory of George IIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Robert Macpherson came down with us to Civita Vecchia to see us off, and, I remember, read to me all the way there a story he had written, one of the stories flying abou...Robert Macpherson Robert Macpherson Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy compagnons de voyage (for I came in the Mail from Moff...Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell[a mathematical paper]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the purpose you mention. Mr Johnston, if I mistake not, is ...Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell'theorems'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I am reading on Sundays "Morehead's Discourses on the Principle of Religious Belief", which are greatly admired, though I canot say I think there is either much strength...Miss V[-] Robert MoreheadA Series Of Discourses On The Principles of Religi...Print: Book


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