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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Have had no company this day with myself, and have gone on with my studies, tracing the courses of the French and British armies in Egypt in 1801.Adam Mackie C.H. GiffordHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899Have just finished "Rory O'More" by Samuel LoverAlbert Battiscombe Samuel LoverRory O'MorePrint: Book
1800-1849Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into such a crown of glory, - of holy radiance, as the moral...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1800-1849Have you seen a little volume of Westall's Poems containing a DAY in SPRING, and other detached pieces, with four lovely engravings from his own designs? One of them rep...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard WestallA Day in Spring, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' I was now turned over [to another t...Robert Anderson Thomas DycheThe Spelling DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' Iwas now turned over [to another te...Robert Anderson Reading Made EasyPrint: Book
1700-1799Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' Iwas now turned over [to another te...Robert Anderson [A Primer]Print: Book
1700-1799He had said in the morning that "Macaulay's 'History of St. Kilda' was very well written, except some foppery about liberty and slavery. I mentioned to him that Macaulay ...Samuel Johnson Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St KildaPrint: Book
1600-1699he was required to answer to some of the articles, viz. the signing and subscribing the two opinions; but I thinck it was not delivered to the house, for I find it engros...John Bramston John Bramston[untitled]Unknown
1850-1899He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into the right artistic mood.Arnold Bennett Edmund de GoncourtJournalsPrint: Book
1900-1945He [M. Besse] took me and Mrs Ingrams for a longish walk yesterday, over the crater edge and down to the sea...M. Besse and I bathed regardless of the sharks, of wh...Antonin Besse Maurice MaeterlinckMonna VannaPrint: Book
1900-1945He [M. Besse] took me and Mrs Ingrams for a longish walk yesterday, over the crater edge and down to the sea...M. Besse and I bathed regardless of the sharks, of wh...Freya Stark Maurice MaeterlinckMonna VannaPrint: Book
1600-1699He [The earl of Oxford] desired me (companie being with him) to take home the paper, and advise him what he was to do. When I had perused it, I wayted on him again. . .John Bramston InstructionsManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899
1900-1945		Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Note on inside cover tells us that this book was re-read in February 192...Vernon Lee Henri BergsonEssai sur les donn?es imm?diates de la consciencePrint: Book
1900-1945Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Summary index of notes on front and back inside covers, flyleaf, half-ti...Vernon Lee Henri BergsonMatiere et MemoirePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Heavily annotated, with considerable marginalia in pencil in both English and Italian. Summary of responses (with page references) on the half-title page. Presented to Ve...Vernon Lee Benedetto CroceEstetica: Come scienza dell?espressione e linguist...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Karl GroosEinleitung in die AesthetikPrint: Book
1900-1945Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. There are detailed notes with page references pasted into the volume opposite the ti...Vernon Lee Karl GroosDer Aesthetische GenussPrint: Book
1600-1699Heere is the well where waters flow, To quench our heat of sinne, Heere is the tree where truth doth grow To lead our liues therein. Heere is the iudge that stintes...Susanna Beckwith The Bible, that is, etc. [Geneva Bible]Print: Book
1800-1849Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 February 1827: 'About an hour after your departure [for Eastnor Castle on 23 February] [...] I was sitting alone in ...Henrietta Moulton-Barrett Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book


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