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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Read "Alice for Short". Stayed in all day'Verena Vera Pennefather William de MorganAlice for ShortPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26- c.29 April 1794: 'Saturday last the day I began this letter I was at Downing at old Robert Lovells. the most primitive o...Robert Southey William DellThe Doctrine of BaptismsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode of preaching, he seems to give two guesses at the m...Benjamin Newton William DerhamPhysio Theology or a Demonstartion of the beingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a voyage round the world'.Benjamin Newton William DerhamPhysico Theology: or a Demonstration of the beingPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read Derham's "Sermons at Boyle's Lectures", wherein I find a man evacuates as much in one day by insensible perspiration as in 14 by stool.'Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun...Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Derham's "Physico-Theology".'Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simple Philosophers praising God Almighty for making the...Hester Lynch Thrale William DerhamPhysico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being...Print: Book
1700-1799'This letter [printed above; from Dr Dodd, a clergyman condemned to death, asking Johnson to help him appeal for clemency to the King] was brought to Dr. Johnson when in ...Samuel Johnson William Dodd[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon his table. This appearing to me an extraordinary eff...Samuel Johnson William DoddThoughts in Prison Print: Book
1700-1799'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon his table. This appearing to me an extraordinary eff...James Boswell William DoddThoughts in Prison Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Drummond'.Mary Godwin William DrummondAcademical QuestionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson William Drummond[poems complete works]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys William DugdaleThe Origines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to read more in the Origines'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William DunbarThe Poems of William DunbarPrint: Book
1800-1849'I dined with Captain Castle yesterday; who lent me the Backwoodsman by Dunlop; which I have read through. After doing so [...] I am more than ever pleased with this coun...William Richard Grahame William Dunlop'The Backwoodsman' or Statistical Sketches of UppePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William ElderBiography of Elisha Kent KanePrint: Book


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