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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed keeper told us, that his invariable rule was, before...Christopher Thomson Thomas SkinnerSplendid miseryPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 12 January 1799: 'Somerville's "Anne" is, I think, more dry than his "William," but clear, distinct, impartial, and wonderfully informing; hi...Mary Berry Thomas SomervilleHistory of Great Britain During the Reign of Queen...Print: Book
1600-1699" ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ...Lady Anne Clifford Thomas SorocoldSupplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... W...Print: Book
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1800-1849		"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably. I speak, perhaps, fr...Charles Maturin Thomas SouthernComplete PlaysPrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas SouthernFatal marriage, The; or, the innocent adulteryPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Thomas Sprat's 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. P...Edward Pordage Thomas Sprat'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince,...Print: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from the fifth edition of Thomas Sprat's The Plague of Athens (1688) [p.34] [...] his allegory on t...Edward Pordage Thomas SpratThe Plague of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas StanleyThe History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I should like, by the way, to hear more about my father's lecture; was it much on the same rails as the Good Words article?'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Stevenson'British Storms' in Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Stevensonletter (in "Nature")Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny quite right and, if you understand, not too literary...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas StevensonLighthouse Construction and IlluminationManuscript: Unknown, possibly proof copy
1850-1899'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himself.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas StevensonChristianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testi...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I read the preface once a day about, tell Nestor so much.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Stevenson 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas SwinburneA Letter to the Right Honourable Robert PeelPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas ThomsonA System of ChemistryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to him, I have found No 1 and 2 of Thompson's "Annals of ...Maria Edgeworth Thomas ThomsonAnnals of PhilosophyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In literature it is only in Vaughan, Traherne, and other mystics, that I find any adequate expression of that perpetual rapturous delight in nature and my own ex...William Henry Hudson Thomas TraherneCenturies of Meditations or Poems of FelicityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for inclosures and Mavor that busy notemaker and book compil...John Clare Thomas TusserFive Hundred Points of Good HusbandryPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.)'Floure and the Leaf, The', attributed to Chaucer ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.)'Chaucer's Dream', attributed to Chaucer in editio...Print: Book


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