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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of ...George Eliot [pseud] William LeckyHistory of European Morals from Augustus to Charle...Print: Book
1800-1849'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'William LempriereTour to MoroccoPrint: Book
1800-1849'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being f...Jane Sewell William LempriereTour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, ...Print: Book
1800-1849It was Lilly's Latin Grammar. It called for uncommon perseverance to come at its contents, so much had it suffered from the use and abuse of schools... But I was desperat...Anne Lutton William LillyLilly's Latin GrammarPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.'Samuel Pepys William LillyMerlini Anglici EphemerisPrint: Book, almanac
1600-1699'Up betimes and fell to reading my Latin grammer, which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my calling Will to the reading of a Chapter in Latin an...Samuel Pepys William LilyA short introduction of grammar... of the Latine t...Print: Book
1600-1699'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever ...Samuel Pepys William LloydThe late apology in behalf of the papists, reprint...Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read th...Samuel Johnson William Lowth[biblical commentaries - old testament]Print: Book
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul William MacDougallPsychologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defectiv...James Hogg William Maginn'Letters of Timothy Tickler Esq. to Eminent Litera...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'B[reakfast] Herring, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Amazing Duke".'John Frederick William Dunn William MagnayThe Amazing DukePrint: Book
1700-1799'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inquired into but have taken nothing by way of Extract,...George Crabbe William MarshallRural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Includ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very strange performance, the authour having mixed in it...James Boswell William MarshallMinutes of AgriculturePrint: Book
1700-1799'[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the language charming! divine harmony, beams in every l...Anna Larpent William MasonCaractacusPrint: Book
1700-1799'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them when they first came out, having a great opinion of...Samuel Richardson William MasonElfridaPrint: Book
1700-1799'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them when they first came out, having a great opinion of ...Lady Bradshaigh William MasonElfridaPrint: Book
1700-1799'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life by Mr Mallet" perhaps you have seen. He is not near so good a Man, I fear, as...Samuel Richardson William Mason[items in Dodsley's Miscellanies]Print: Book
1700-1799The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: 'Have you ever seen the 3d vol. of Mason's Poems, pu...G., Dowager Lady Spencer William MasonPoems (third volume)Print: Book
1700-1799'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have appeared to have more merit in the execution of the w...James Boswell William MasonMemoirs of GrayPrint: Book
1700-1799'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his character, is, I trust, too well established in the ju...James Boswell William Mason[Memoir of William Whitehead]Print: Book


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