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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas PennantHistory of Quadrupeds.Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1700-1799"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of...George Steevens Thomas Percyannotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the...
1800-1849'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley Thomas PercyNorthern Antiquities; or a description of the mann...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my chil...Mary Russell Mitford Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849'he does not like any poetry except Percy's Ancient ballads and Shelley's translation of Homer's Hymn to mercury and the Cyclops - but he likes romances any marvellous ta...Percy Shelley Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was last night at the Club. Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many [italics] fits [end italics]; it is pretty enough. He has printed, and will soon publish it.'Samuel Johnson Thomas PercyHermit of Warkworth, ThePrint: Unknown
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Percy (ed.)Reliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.'Samuel Pepys Thomas PorterThe VillainePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Powell, 24 December 1840: 'It is right to apprize you of the safe arrival [of book from Powell] [...] I see the Monthly Chronicle -- & ha...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas PowellpoemsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Browning to Thomas Powell, c.October 1842: 'I am highly obliged to you [...] for the two volumes of verse now on my table. I have not as yet found time for th...Robert Browning Thomas PowellpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously...Charlotte Bronte Thomas PriceMemoir of William WilberforcePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas PringleAfrican SketchesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing numbers. I really anticipate good news of it this yea...James Hogg Thomas Pringle [ed.]Friendship's OfferingPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Bingley's Useful Knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'.Benjamin Newton Thomas Pyle[sermons?]Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas RandolphPoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott Thomas Randolphhis answer to Christianity not founded on argumentPrint: Book
1600-1699'After he was gone, I fell a-reading "Cornelianum Dolium" till 11 a-clock at night, with great pleasure; and after that to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas RandolphCornelianum DoliumPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. After you went away I re-read your Fog on the River p...Joseph Conrad Thomas ReedHouse Flags and Funnels of English and Foreign Ste...Print: Book


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