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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Detailed reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's Magia Adamica (1650). Edward Pordage Thomas VaughanMagia Adamica. Or the Antiquity of Magic, And the ...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margin...Edward Pordage Thomas VaughanThe Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to dea...Print: Book
1900-1945'28th September 1928 (Friday). I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France?. The writer sets out to prove Ibsen a bon bourge...Gerald Moore Thomas Vladesco[article on Henrik Ibsen]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas WartonHistory of English Poetry, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Thomas WartonHistory of English Poetry, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[thanking Warton for a book he has sent ] You have shewn to all, who shall hereafter attempt the study of our ancient authors, the way to success; by directing them to t...Samuel Johnson Thomas WartonObservations on the Faerie Queene of SpenserPrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] observed, that a gentleman of eminence in literature [Thomas Warton] had got into a bad style of poetry of late. "He puts (said he) a very common thing in a...Samuel Johnson Thomas Warton[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 7 January 1842: 'Miss Barrett -- inferring Mr Westwood from the handwriting, -- begs his acceptance of the unworthy little book...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas WestwoodNote to Elizabeth BarrettManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 5 February 1842: 'I [italics]was[end italics] and [italics]am[end italics] very grateful to you for the gift of your poems [......Elizabeth Barrett Thomas WestwoodPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 11 January 1844: 'I have [...] read your volume through [...] I have several favourite poems -- the "Invocation" [...] & "Sprin...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas WestwoodBeads from a RosaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Whateley's Shakespeare, and very ingenious and interesting it is...' Charles Darwin Thomas WhateleyRemarks on some of the Characters of Shakespeare
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas WhitfieldA Discourse of Liberty of Conscience...Print: Book
1800-1849'Two poems in [Thomas] Wilkinson's hand, "I Love to be Alone" and "Lines Written on a Paper Wrapt round a Moss-rose Pulled on New-years Day, and sent to M. Wilson," copie...Wordsworth FamilyThomas Wilkinson[poems]Unknown
1800-1849'... ["A Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect"], by [Thomas] Wilkinson, in his own hand, was pasted into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ...Wordsworth FamilyThomas WilkinsonLamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the...Unknown
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS "Tours of the British Mountains"] the passage which had inspired the Solitary Reaper [about a female reaper singing i...William Wordsworth Thomas WilkinsonTours to the British MountainsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'On 7 July 1809, W[ordsworth] told Thomas Wilkinson that "Mr Coleridge showed me a little poem of yours upon your Birds which gave us all very great pleasure."'Wordsworth FamilyThomas WilkinsonTo My Thrushes, Blackbirds, etc.Unknown
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1600-1699		'In the preface to Thomas Wilson's "The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence" (1567), the text recounts God's granting the gift of eloq...Gabriel Harvey Thomas WilsonThe arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as ...Print: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonThomas WilsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on memory from the fifth edition of Thomas Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as ar...Edward Pordage Thomas WilsonThe Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as...Print: Book
1800-1849'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ...Joseph Mayett Thomas Wooler[various titles]Print: Book


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