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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology'Benjamin Newton Thomas GisborneThe Testimony of Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly deficient in that plainess and persipicuity in which...Benjamin Newton Thomas GisborneThe Testimony of Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799[Anna Seward on Thomas Gisborne's conduct books]: 'too strict'; they 'might have been more generally useful upon a less rigid plan of admonition, especially the volume de...Anna Seward Thomas Gisborne[conduct books]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read it.'Jane Austen Thomas GisborneAn Enquiry into the Duties of the Female SexPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'We have read Mr Gisborne's book aloud ["On the duties of Man"] and all the party was extremely pleased with it.'Elizabeth Smith Thomas GisbourneAn enquiry into the duties of men in the higher an...Print: Book
1800-1849Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consider Burns very inferior [.]John Clare Thomas GrayLettersUnknown
1800-1849transcription of the poem headed 'the progress of poesy./ thos. gray'Mary Groom Thomas GrayThe Progress of PoesyUnknown
1800-1849'I am now reading Gray's life and letters.'Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas GrayLife and LettersPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets. I rarely read their works, unles...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas GrayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t...Elizabeth Blackburn Thomas GrayElegy Written in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler Thomas GrayWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect for that fine ode.'Benjamin Newton Thomas GrayThe Bard: A pindaric odeUnknown
1700-1799H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard annotated (with 'reflective remarks') by owner, Gene...General James Wolfe Thomas GrayElegy Written in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas GrayunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter Thomas Gray[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Thomas Gray[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas GrayThe Works of Thomas GrayPrint: Book
1800-1849'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school abotch, brick dust or even saw-dust would have been better- RB' [He has also starred *...Charlotte Sussannah Fry Thomas GrayElegy Written in A Country ChurchyardPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over some of Gray's Poems. I am almost tempted to agree in Johnson's character of these compositions...'Thomas Green Thomas GrayWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fatal sisters),; v.3 p. 59 (On a distant prospect of E...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Thomas Gray[Poems]Print: Book


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