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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields with a book - "Charles Grandisson" I am but at the seco...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne William RobertsonThe History of AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's behaviour and though Mary's is very shameful yet I ca...Eugenia Wynne William RobertsonThe History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of Charles V.Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin William RobertsonHistory of America
1800-1849'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came in in [...] his usual wild hurried manner [...] consented to play a Sonata...Claire Clairmont William RobertsonThe History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V....Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the history of Charles 5th by Robertson'Percy Bysshe Shelley William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of Emperor Charles V, with a ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and al...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of Charles the FifthPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of the Emperor Charles VPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of the Emperor Charles VPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America. At this rate I calcula...Jane Baillie Welsh William RobertsonCharles VPrint: Book
1700-1799'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never...Samuel Johnson William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson William RobertsonHistory of Scotland 1542 - 1603Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...James Boswell William RobertsonHistory of Scotland 1542 - 1603Print: Book
1700-1799'I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated characters devised for the purpose, I had a method of my...Samuel Johnson William RobertsonHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got through the first Chapter which I find exceedingly inte...Dorothy Wordsworth William RoscoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: "I am come to R...Robert Southey William RoscoeThe Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. ...George Gordon Lord Byron William RoscoeThe Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnific...Print: Book
1800-1849'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words...Thomas Carlyle William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 volsPrint: Book


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