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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'... my mother would read aloud to me. I particularly associate Cowper's ''Winter Walk at Noon'' with these readings. Cowper was a great favourite with her — both h...Henrietta Darwin William CowperThe Task, Book VI, Winter Walk at NoonPrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2."William Wordsworth William CoxeLettres de M. William Coxe a M. W. Melmoth sur l'e...Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron William CoxeHistory of the House of AustriaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron William CoxeMemoirs of the Bourbon Kings of SpainPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man...Thomas Carlyle William CoxeTravels in SwitzerlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man...Thomas Carlyle William CoxeTravels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and DenmarkPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having now, I believe, fairly passed through between New Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the westward, so that to-morrow we intend to steer more to the...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage Round the World" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "Sanjuis draconis", as possibly also that which Tasman s...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profusion of large shell-fish (Chama gigas) such as Dampi...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'In the evening a small bird of the noddy (Sterna) kind hovered about the ship, and at night settled on the rigging, where it was taken, and proved exactly the same bird ...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'One could not bear to read a Page of the Gentleman Instructed now, & yet what a favourite Book it was - can that ever be the fate of the Rambler? - perhaps so.' Hester Lynch Thrale William DarrellGentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palate still down.'Samuel Pepys William DavenantThe Siege of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys William DavenantThe siege of RhodesPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 12 February 1826; 'Read a few pages of Will d'Avenant who was fond of having it supposed that Shakespeare intrigued with his mother. I think the pretension c...Walter Scott William Davenant Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical busines...Helen Rawlings William de MorganJoseph VancePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical busines...Reginald Robson William de MorganAlice for ShortPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical busines...Howard R. Smith William de MorganSomehow GoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical busines...Francis Pollard William de Morgan[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical busines...Members of XII Book ClubWilliam de Morgan[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House. 13th March 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.		Frank Knight William De MorganAlice-for-short: a dichronismManuscript: Unknown


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