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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
 
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 10 1775 'I had indeed heard that the 15th were under orders for America, but did not dream of Captain Ourry?s accompanying them; and I examined...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, and a kind of natural courtesy; in short, they are n...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, and a kind of natural courtesy; in short, they are n...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe travellerPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off the monster ?What pains have been taken to promulgate ...Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] David HumeEssay concerning human understandingPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many other instances ?What happier nature shrinks at with...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEssay on manPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked out by the name of Captain Gawky.'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that thousands are not born to taste! "O! blind to truth,...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Shenstone[An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazzled my good man. He desires me to keep the letter fo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WerterPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Letter to Mrs F----R. May 9 1800?? I declare, had I my pilgrimage to begin anew through the wilderness, I would not give my share of the endearing charities of life, my b...Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] Thomas GrayElegy written in a country churchyardPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the Rights of Man, and abominate those of Woman. Think ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Helen Maria WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they prayed for; but he is rather delicate in his constitution...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jonathan SwiftunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with Hayley for expiating so minutely on Cowper?s praise...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William HayleyLife and letters of William CowperPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure pleasures of taste and beneficence, at a period of life...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of Diana which seemed to protect me. I thought of Dryden...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John Dryden[Tales from Chaucer]Print: Book
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1800-1849		Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation, ?Tha solas an thireadh le sith, Ach claoidhidh fad...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James MacphersonThe poems of OssianPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh October 3 1796 'Have you read Lord Gardenstone?s Sketches, or detailed observations, I believe they are? It is very much the kind of reading that ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone[Sketches?]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, during these tepid gleams that Thomson speaks of so feeli...Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Ourry September 1791 'Clanship, doubtless, narrows the affections, and produces many absurd and unpleasing associations; yet it is better to love forty or f...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] ["Parisian philosophers"]unknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with composure that excited my own wonder. Perhaps like Bu...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Robert BurnsTo ruinPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Smith August 19 1785 'So much for this subject. Rochefoucault says, very ill-naturedly, that people always find consolation very easily for the misfortunes...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Rochefoucault[Maxims and moral reflections?]Print: Book


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