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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Tuesday, 1 August 1826: 'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me about a dozen and dipping into them scrambled throug...Walter Scott MiddletonMichaelmas TermPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 1 August 1826: 'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me about a dozen and dipping into them scrambled throug...Walter Scott Wentworth SmithThe Hector of Germany, or The PalsgravePrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 10 February 1829: 'I read over Henry's History of Henry VI and Edward IV. He is but a stupid historian after all.'Walter Scott The Revd. Dr. R. HenryHistory of Great Britain; from the invasion of Jul...Print: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 14 March 1826: 'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over Lady Morgan's novel of O'Donnel which has some st...Walter Scott Sydney Owenson, Lady MorganO'DonnelPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 14 March 1826: 'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over Lady Morgan's novel of O'Donnel which has some st...Walter Scott Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 17 October 1826: 'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as the stile [quotes from Jonathan Swift, "On the Dea...Walter Scott Harrison AinsworthSir John ChivertonPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 17 October 1826: 'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as the stile [quotes from Jonathan Swift, "On the Dea...Walter Scott John SmithBrambletye HousePrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 18 September 1827: 'Whiled away the evening over one of Miss Austen's Novels; there is a truth of painting in her writings which always delights me. They do n...Walter Scott Jane Austen Print: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 23 January 1827: 'Betwixt dinner and tea while husbanding a tumbler of whisky and water I read the new novel Elizabeth de Bruce -- part of it that is'. Walter Scott Christian Isobel JohnsonElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 24 February 1829: 'Went to breakfast with Mr. Drummond Hay, where we [Scott and daughter Anne, with his niece Anne] again met Colonel and Mrs. Blair with Thom...Mrs Blair  Unknown
1800-1849Tuesday, 28 March 1826: 'Reading at intervals a novel called Grandby [sic] one of that very difficult class which aspires to describe the actual current of society; ...Walter Scott T. H. ListerGranbyPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 3 June 1828: 'I smoked a segar, slept away an hour and read Mure of Auchendrayne's trial and thus ended the day.'Walter Scott Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Es...Print: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 8 April 1828: 'Learning from Washington Irving's description of Stratford that the hall of Sir Thomas Lucy the Justice who renderd Warwickshire too hot for Sh...Walter and Anne ScottWashington IrvingSketch BookPrint: Book
1700-1799Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone.Gertrude Savile John GayThe Beggars OperaPrint: Book
1800-1849Twice I procured a French grammar, and in private essayed that tongue; but my attempts were discovered and laughed at, and I was decidedly told I could never learn withou...Anne Lutton [French Grammar]Print: Book
1700-1799Two very long quotations: 1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescretion and malice...' 2. 'Mythology. The promiscuo...Frances Hamilton M. de Secondat, Baron de MontequieuSpirit of LawsPrint: Book
1700-1799Two volumes bound together by Dawson and including his 'The Pages Where the affairs in this Book begin for 1723' and 'continued for 1724'John Dawson The Historical RegisterPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) thinks that Ionia observed and experimented freely; that ...Edward Morgan Forster Benjamin FaringtonScience and Politics in the Ancient WorldPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) thinks that Ionia observed and experimented freely; that ...Edward Morgan Forster F. M. CornfordFrom Religion to PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric': 'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[end italics]: one's taste and critical faculties, th...Edward Morgan Forster William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book


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