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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Read with much delight and instruction the Baroness De Stael's Germany I.G. Baroness Anne Loiuse Germaine De Stael-HolsteinGermanyPrint: Book
1800-1849Read, as I do every day, seven chapters of Scripture. My heart & mind are not affected by this exercise as they should be ? witness what I have written today. I would e...Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate".Gertrude Savile Jean Regnauld de SegraisThree Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR FPrint: Book
1800-1849Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerably improved but I am disatisfied with myself for not...Anne Lister DesmosthenesAll the Orations of DemosthenesPrint: Book
1800-1849Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved.Anne Lister Thomas LelandAll the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into EnUnknown
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
1700-1799Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but when we set out, Eolus did not perform the task Thom...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James ThomsonThe seasonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read a...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile t...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Edward YoungNight thoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799Reading "Anedotes of Some Remarkable Persons Chiefly of The Present and Two Preceding Centuries'Joseph Hunter William SewardAnecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly oPrint: Book
1800-1849Reading astromomy at even. [ I suspect this is Scott's Guy Mannering, the Astrologer]Adam Mackie [Astronomy]Unknown
1900-1945Reading Berlioz’s 'Soirées de L’Orchestre' the other day I found that an opera on the Aztec subject was actually written and composed in Berlioz’s time. Arnold Bennett Hector BerliozSoirées de l'OrchestrePrint: Book
1600-1699Reading James Harrington, The Common-Wealth of Oceana, Henry Oldenburg "took notes only from the 'Preliminaries'."Henry Oldenburg James HarringtonThe Common-Wealth of OceanaPrint: Book
1800-1849Reading of Brotier, Chronological Supplement [to de la Malle's Tacitus] recorded by Claire Clairmont on 4, 5, 6 April 1820.Claire Clairmont Gabriel BrotierChronological SupplementPrint: Book
1800-1849Reading Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Consists of the prosecutions and slaughters by the Military [of] Covenanters in Charles 2nd's time. Scene of the story lies in the ...Adam Mackie Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1850-1899Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt)Albert Battiscombe Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt)Albert Battiscombe Leigh HuntThe Court ServantPrint: Book
READING THE 2ND VOLUME OF PERRY'S FRENCH REVOLUTIONI.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Recd from WM the Morning Herald of Friday, which pleased me to find him so attentive, to what he knows gives me satisfaction; I am now beforehand with the knowing ones I ...Robert Sharp The Morning HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Received a letter from Sir W. Knighton mentioning that the King acquiesced in my proposal that Constable's Miscellany should be dedicated to him.Walter Scott Archibald ConstableConstable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Pu...Unknown


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