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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] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our experience = it is/ sorrow which teaches us to feel pro...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonJournal of an AnnuyeePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction'; [Text] 'Reviewing June's perennial flight/ We m...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonLines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much an...Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen [?] in which we glide/ Above the billows of life's ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine M. VicaryLinesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Long ago!'; [Text] 'Long ago!` Oh long ago!/ Do not these words recall past years?/ And scarcely knowing why they flo... [unknown]Long ago!Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched his harp and nations heard, entranced/ As some vast ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Pollock]The Course of Time [extract]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisant pays de France/ O ma patrie/ La plus cherie/ Qui a...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]?[Adieu]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful years!/ And how ea...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreMy BirthdayPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation and/ different avenues to our gratitude and favour - ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[On Friendship]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e rotundo/ ...'; [total = 37 lines]Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [unknown]Poesie di OssianPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ Of endless woe complains/ Be mine in patient hope alo...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonResignationPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul/ Descend to contemplate/ The form that once wa...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]The dead friendPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels the gloomy night/ The din of war will have begun/ The ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine G.I. C.....The Eve of the BattlePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; [text] 'I stood beside thy lowly grave;/ Spring-odou...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans]The grave of a poetessPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festive light/ For the Royal city rejoiced by night/ ... ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe illuminated cityPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you obscure unsightly root/Yet from the blight of wintry...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Maria TigheThe lilyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars, my dear goddess decree/ That Old Maid as I am, an ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Mary] [Tighe]The old Maid's prayer to DianaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His soldier's cloak a shroud/ His churchyard is the open fie...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe recordPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/ Which howso'er the sun and sky/ May tempt its bough...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreTo my motherPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And needest thou our prayers no more, Safe folded mid t...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles]To one at restPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of scornful mirth/ It brings to me glad visions of the c...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Maria] AbdyWorsted workPrint: Unknown


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