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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'A good phrase of Sir P Sidneys for looking foolish. "he lookd like an Ape that had newly taken a purgatio...Robert Southey Sir Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia Print: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Some Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aristotles definition of friendly Loue'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip WoodhouseSome Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aris...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'an Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotle'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip Woodhousean Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotl...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Moralistic reflections in verse'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip WoodhouseMoralistic reflections in versePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Italian & French Proverbs rythmisd'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip WoodhouseItalian & French Proverbs rythmisdUnknown
1800-1849'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips' Personal tour.'John Cole Sir R PhillipsPersonal TourPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter Sir Richard PhillipsGeographyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'John Cole Sir Richard PhillipsPersonal TourPrint: Book
1700-1799'On this day I finis'd Sullivan's "View of Nature" w'ch I had from the Library Society from w'ch & from the Book Society we were now finish'd with as many books as we co'...John Marsh Sir Richard Joseph SullivanA View of nature, in Letters to a Traveller among ...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and there to read and my wife to read to me out of Sir Rob Cotton's book about Warr; which is very fine, showing how the Kings of England have raised money h...Elizabeth Pepys Sir Robert CottonAn answer to such motives as were offer'd by certa...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I was mightily pleased this night in what we read about ...Elizabeth Pepys Sir Robert CottonAn answer to such motives as were offer'd by certa...Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, I home; and there my wife made an end to me of Sir R. Cottons discourse of Warr, which is endeed a very fine book. So to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys Sir Robert CottonAn answer to such motives as were offer'd by certa...Print: Book
Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the text says "many would prefer expatriating themselve...George Otto Trevelyan Sir Robert Thomas WilsonPrivate diary of travels, personal services, and p...Print: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading,...Gabriel Harvey Sir Roger WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'So down the River, reading "The Adventures of five houres", which the more I read the more I admire.'Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel TukeThe Adventures of the five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich tither - making an end of "The Adventures of five houres", - which when all ...Samuel Pepys Sir Samuel TukeThe Adventures of the five houresPrint: Book
1700-1799'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our former neighbours in East Kent, pointed at in Mr E Br...John Marsh Sir Samuel Egerton BrydgesArthur Fitz-AlbaniPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Thomas BrownePseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquries into very many ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book


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