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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
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde encore ignore le vrai nom/ Esprit mysterieux, mortel...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine[L'Homme]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear the busy hours away/That is not home where lonely ni...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonLines on HomePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He treads [?], as treads a monarch towards his throne/ Dark...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Henry NeeleThe cometPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heaven/ And God but little asks, where little's given/Th...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonEpitaph on an IdiotPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors close/ To gather round an aching breast/ The curtain...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [James?] MontgomeryNightPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart writing on the Cowpax talks/ gravely of a most horrib...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [James?] Beresford[On vaccination]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffering clay/ Ah! whither strays the immortal mind?/ It ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George Gordon, Lord ByronWhen coldness wraps this suffering clayPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me long;/ I come o'er the mountains with light and song...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia HemansThe voice of springPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time/ Is sharpen'ed from its hi...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron][Don Juan - Canto the Third]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know why/ To sport an hour with Beauty's chain/ Then throw ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Thomas] [Moore][The Blue Stocking]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ and its pleasures in all their new lustre begin/ When...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas Moore[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! Ieroe!'; [Text] 'Long life to our Queen who in bea...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]A Highland Salute to the QueenPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to God what words can else express/ The parting, and the ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine John MackintoshAdieuPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shades to dwell!/ One positively might as well/ be buried...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine H. SmithCountry and TownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes his/ native country in the last volume of his travel...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Dr Clark[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose/ Is drooping for thy sigh of dew/ The Hyacinth woos...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George CrolyEvening's daughterPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lockhart'; [Text] 'Hark friends! It strikes -the year's ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Luis BaylonFarewell to the YearPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring forth the hidden might/ Which hath lain bedded in the si...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe forest sanctuaryPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a picture by Howard/ the subject - fairies on the sea sh...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe Troubadour [extract]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou bright emanation of the/ Divinity, thou brilliant s...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonThe Dead and the Living [extract]Print: Unknown


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