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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
 
1800-1849Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of the poem you had the goodness to send me; but you in ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William CowperThe taskPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, and most original in this respect, that I know not th...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Peter Pindar[Poems]Print: Book
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1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who enjoys, in a higher degree that "Eternal sunshine of...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEloisa to AbelardPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the most affecting and heroic instance of true friendsh...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jean Jacques RousseauEliosaPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the purest of mirrors, exhibiting a prospect awfully so...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James BeattieThe minstrel; or , the progress of geniusPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where ?Winter lingering chills the lap of May? if I could help it.' Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver Goldsmith[The traveller]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have placed those pretty pictures in regular succession;...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James BeattiePoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom Pope says ?Great souls there are, who touch?d with w...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Edward?] [Young?][Satire VI?]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almost similar character [ie to one in fiction], Lord Bol...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEssay on manPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Clarissa, and your new acquaintance Mr. Monteith. I obs...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to MIss Ewing September 21, 1778 'Were I not afraid of the imputation of pedantic affectation, I could make this clear by a learned quotation from M.T. Cicero?s fo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Marcus Tullius CiceroFortieth orationPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall be, that every one of my subjects, who is incapable ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeThe DunciadPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my window ?But now the fairy vallies fade/Dun night has ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William CollinsOde occasion'd by the death of Mr ThomsonPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, 'You will think me very fanciful, investing plants with sentiment, but you may trust me when I assure you, I don?t borrow from Harvey. The...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] HarveyunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless you live among them, and learn their language. Smollet...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettThe expedition of Humphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary Wollstonecroft?s book, which is so run after here,...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jean Jacques Rousseau[?Emile]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school, or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary Wollstonecroft?s book, which is so run after here, ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Mary WollstonecroftunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, are all your own and, tho? well assured that there is ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Edward?] [Young?][?Night Thoughts]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'Her sister, in whose arms she died, was immediately seized with the same disorder, and met her death with the same well-grounded heroism...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Shenstone[Elegy 15]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc has been lately made in the little circle of those I...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Walter Scott[Elegy 1]Print: Book


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