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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
 
1700-1799I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in it. - Rows Ambitious StepmotherGertrude Savile Nicholas RoweThe Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy...Print: Book
1700-1799I find by the news papers this morning that dr wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord Nottingham [to...Edward Lincoln Daniel (Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham) FinchThe Answer of the Earl of Nottingham to Mr WhistonPrint: Book
1700-1799I find by the newspapers this morning that Dr Wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord NottinghamEdward Lincoln unknownPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to me from not being acquainted with it.John Horrocks Ainsworth Allan RamsayThe Gentle ShepherdPrint: Book
1800-1849I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the ...Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsLamiaPrint: Book
1800-1849I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the ...Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsIsabellaPrint: Book
1800-1849I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the ...Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsEve of St AgnesPrint: Book
1800-1849I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the ...Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1700-1799I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very pleasing conclusion, showing the destruction of vice ...Joseph Hunter Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtPrint: Book
1800-1849I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry. As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy....Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book
1800-1849I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry. As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy....Elizabeth Barrett Theophrastus Print: Book
1900-1945I finished The Hotel in Brooks's — not a good novel, although Eddy recommends it.James Lees-Milne Elizabeth BowenThe HotelPrint: Book
1800-1849I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a quarter of a volume of Proofs, or I should have answer...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleProofsPrint: Proofs
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marie CorelliMaster ChristainPrint: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William ShakespeareShakespeare's Complete WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Cullen BryantThanatopsisPrint: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Ralph Waldo TrineIn Tune with the InfinitePrint: Book
1850-1899I had a snug evening with Mildred reading part of the broken last novel of L. Stevenson, in which he gives most elaborate descriptions of characters you don't care for. H...Emma Darwin Robert Louis StevensonThe Weir of Hermiston Print: Book
1900-1945I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Words...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marcus AureliusThe Meditations of Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1900-1945I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Words...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Hall CaineThe BondmanPrint: Book


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