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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
 
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I...Elizabeth Smith HuntEssay on the happiness of the life to comePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: Charles Collins has been so busy with his Lent verses that I see little of him — he is my monit...Charles Collins Johannes SecundusLiber Basiorum (Book of Kisses)Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'The man who gaind the last English verse prize in Oxford has since published two odes which he...Robert Southey George RichardsSongs of the Aboriginal Bards of Britain Print: Book
1700-1799'I took [books] to the library and brought Aikin's "Description of the Country between 30 and 40 miles around Manchester", nevertheless he has Sheffield which is 42 miles...Joseph Hunter John AikinA Description of the Country from thirty to forty ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.Joseph Hunter John AikinA Description of the country from thirty to forty ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.Joseph Hunter John AikinEvenings at home; or the Juvenile Budget OpenedPrint: Book
1700-1799'We got the "Monthly Magazine" from Miss Haynes who takes it in. Mr E. says it is the best published. I drew a copy of Stanley Hall near Bolton le Moor out of Aikin.'Joseph Hunter John AikinA Description of the Country from thirty to forty ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I read at night in the G[reek or Great]Testament but for a very short while'.John Jones [n/a][Greek or Great?] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read over Rosewell's "Life 7 Tryal" 8vo 17[18]'.Anthony Hammond Samuel RosewellThe Arraignment and Tryal of T. Rosewell, for High...Print: Book
1700-1799'One thing, however, yet remains to us & dares to baffle all the wickedness of the Ministry, the tyranny of the Crown, & the various horrours of these ruinous times, ?Man...Frances Burney Rev. George ButtTimoleonManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilated, and infinitely preferable to his tiresome "Trist...Horace Walpole Laurence SterneSentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilated, and infinitely preferable to his tiresome "Trist...Horace Walpole Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Sir Richard Steele's Dedication of his Account of the state of the Roman Catholic Religion to the Pope'.Dudley Ryder Richard SteeleAn Account of the State of the Roman Catholic Reli...Print: Book
1700-1799'During his holidays he found on his mother's dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard's "Herbal", having the names and figures of some of the plants with which he had f...Joseph Banks John GerardThe Herball or General Historie of PlantsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'I have read all Juvenal with pleasure it is a manly stile more adapted to me than the sly sarcasms of Horace but ...Robert Southey JuvenalSatiresPrint: Book
1700-1799'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who has a very good figure of the tree in his Herb. Amboin...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AmboinensisPrint: Book
1700-1799'We took Beroe incrassata, Medusa limpidissima, plicata and obliquata, Alcyonium anguillare (probably the thing that Shelvoke mentions in his "Voyage Round the World" p. ...Joseph Banks George ShelvockeA Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South...Print: Book
1700-1799'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making any material observations upon it; so that all we c...Joseph Banks Charles De BrossesHistoire des navigations aux terres australes, con...Print: Book
1700-1799'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our palates at least, and fully as green and pleasing to the...Joseph Banks [uknown-ship's cook?][recipe]Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe.
1700-1799'About a fortnight ago my gums swelled, and some small pimples rose on the inside of my mouth, which threatened to become ulcers; I flew to the lemon juice, which had bee...Joseph Banks Hulme[book with medical directions]Print: Book


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