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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
 
1800-1849Had no company. Passed the afternoon reading part of Boston's Fourfold State.Adam Mackie Thomas BostonHuman Nature in its Fourfold StatePrint: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu...Mary Smith Thomas BrownMoral PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'.Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas BrownParadise of CoquettesUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'Dr Brown's philosophy! No philosophy is like it. Poetry knows the place of his soul [...] I have gone t...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the books I read then for the first time was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres [sic], who had been ...William Henry Hudson Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849"By ... [January 1804 Coleridge] ... had probably ... begun to write brief notes, appreciative and explanatory, in copies of the works of Sir Thomas Browne destined for S...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Browne Print: Book
1700-1799I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "C...Samuel Richardson Thomas BrowneChristian MoralsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas Thomas Browne Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 May 1756:] 'Has Mr Johnson sent you his new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals? 'Tis a collection of the noblest ...Catherine Talbot Thomas BrowneChristian MoralsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:] 'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but your recommendation of it [in letter of 7 May 1756] wil...Elizabeth Carter Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am still in the hospital and expect to be for at least two days more … Just now I don’t know where I can keep books. I have with me Donne’s poems and Brown’s “Reli...Isaac Rosenberg Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Thomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh CloughAmbarvalia (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh CloughAmbarvaliaPrint: Book
1700-1799'C[oleridge] was reading Burnet in 1795 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas BurnetunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas BurnetDe Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium LiberPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his reasoning...'Thomas Green Thomas BurnetThe theory of the earthPrint: Book
1700-1799'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewes; these were chiefly theological. The only one, tha...James Hogg Thomas BurnetSacred Theory of the EarthPrint: Book
1700-1799'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas BurnetTelluris Theoria SacraPrint: Book


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