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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'He pressed me to study Dr. Clarke and to read his Sermons. I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. "Because, (said he) he is fullest on the propitiatory sacrifi...Samuel Johnson Samuel ClarkeSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielHymen's TriumphUnknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielMusophilusUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 24 November 1801: 'Mary read a poem of Daniel upon Learning.'Mary Hutchinson Samuel DanielMusophilus, or a Defence of all LearningPrint: Book
1800-1849"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's P...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielThe History of the Civil WarPrint: Book
1800-1849"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, when he read it through [in Lamb's copy of Daniel's P...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielThe History of the Civil WarPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielThe Poetical Works of Mr Samuel DanielPrint: Book
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson Samuel Daniel[poems complete works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton", on his late Edition of Milton?s "Juvenile" Poems...'Thomas Green Samuel DarbyA letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton, on his late ed...Print: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fa...George Eliot [pseud] Samuel DicksonFallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal ...Print: Book
1900-1945'H.M Wallis ably reviewed Dill's Social Life in the Roman Empire & much discussion followed'.Henry Marriage Wallis Samuel DillRoman Society from Nero to Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?...Thomas Carter Samuel DrewMemoirs of Mr Samuel DrewPrint: Book
1700-1799'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings that we should purchase the only one of Egerton's w...Jane Austen Samuel Egerton BrydgesArthur Fitz-Albini: a NovelPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous 1772 pro-slavery pamphlet (by "a West Indian plantat...Granville Sharp Samuel EstwickConsiderations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Ca...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Read Foote's "Farce of the Minor"; I do not admire it near as much as I do the Mayor of Garratt.'Joseph Hunter Samuel FooteThe Minor, A ComedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers ar...Mr Ap Rees Samuel Foote[a farce]Print: Book
1800-1849'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments are none of the newest.'Walter Scott Samuel FooteThe Maid of BathUnknown
1600-1699'Thence by water to Chelsy, all the way reading a little book I bought of Improvement of trade, a pretty book and many things useful in it.'Samuel Pepys Samuel FortreyEnglands interest and improvement consisting in th...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Garth's "Dispensary"; a lively and pleasing poem, sparkling with considerable wit, but defrauded of its just fame by the "Dunciad"...'Thomas Green Samuel GarthThe DispensaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838: '[To] satisfy some curiosity, [I] have been reading Garth's "Dispensary," a poem very worthy of its subject'.Elizabeth Barrett Samuel GarthThe Dispensary, a PoemPrint: Book


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