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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'Mary Berry Thomas Moore'Corruption'Print: Book
1800-1849The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through before breakfast, as I did when it appeared. I cann...Harriet Martineau Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849[transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand]Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas Moore'Gazel'Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ and its pleasures in all their new lustre begin/ When...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas Moore[unknown]Print: Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful years!/ And how ea...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreMy BirthdayPrint: Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/ Which howso'er the sun and sky/ May tempt its bough...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreTo my motherPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Lines written by Moore on Miss [Curria]' 'She is far from the Land, where her young Hero sleeps/...'Carey/Maingay groupThomas Moore'She is Far From the Land' [Irish Melodies]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Remember thee yes while there's life in this heart/...'[Thomas Moore, 'Remember Thee': first 8 lines of 12-line text. Very little punctuation in transcript. Perhaps from...Carey/Maingay groupThomas Moore'Remember Thee' [from Irish Melodies]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Oh thou who driest the mourner's tear/...' 'Moore' [epigraph from Psalms not transcribed]Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreOh Thou Who Dry'st the Mourner's TearPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Extract from Moore's Love of the Angels' [The Second Angels Story, ll. 1043-1066]Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreThe Love of the AngelsPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'They tell us of an Indian tree/...'Margaret Maingay [?] Thomas Moore'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'There's a bliss beyond all the Minstrel has told/...' ['Light of the Haram' ll. 648-655]Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'The Minstrel Boy' 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, /... Moore. Benj. Beanlands, Otley, December 1831'Benjamin Beanlands Thomas MooreThe Minstrel BoyUnknown
1800-1849'As a beam oer the face of the waters may glow, ...'Bowly groupThomas MooreAs a beam oer the face of the waters may glowUnknown
1800-1849'The Wish' 'Oh! Had we some bright little isle of our own,... S.W. 1821''S.W.' Thomas MooreOh had we some bright little isleUnknown
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able t...Albert Battiscombe Thomas MooreThe Epicurean. A TalePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able t...Albert Battiscombe Thomas MooreParadise and the PeriPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it only yesterday) has dedicated a stanza or two to me in ...Sydney Smith Thomas MooreLife of ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day'Mary Shelley Thomas MooreLallah Rookh: an Oriental RomancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas MooreLalla Rookh: an oriental romancePrint: Book


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