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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]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for relief/ But slowly did her succour come/ And a pati...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine William Wordsworth[The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton A...Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec moi meme;/ Ah prends garde un peril extreme/ De caus...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employment for those retired hours/ in which we are altoge...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Joseph Addison[Spare Time]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee away and be at rest/ So prayed the Psalmist to be fre...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine John Malcolm[untitled]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the storm may be gathering round/ There is one ! who can s...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anonymous[untitled]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ than the majority of her daughters. Like many of/ the...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]Matilde a novelPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ He hath a deep, though voiceless eloquence, /To whic...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans[untitled]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy below/ For are the hearts whence one same touch/ Bids th...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans][Kindred hearts]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with those we love/ Like stars amid a stormy night/ Alas...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon][untitled]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come in storm and tempest, there are those/ whom it has su...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Walter] [Scott][The monastery]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other passions fly/ All others are but vanity/ Earthly the...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] Southey[The curse of Kehama, canto X]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light and warmth once liv'd below/ Where have ye ta'en your ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text] "Hail beauteous spot of Nature's earth/ Arrayed in ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Innes[?]Lines on Mountghaine [?]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gladdening ray/ Which o'er the nations sheds a beam of ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]The Star of MissionsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre vie? C'est notre caractere, c'est la/ maniere ? nous...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]unknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath/And stars...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonymousThe season of deathPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[Jack Pilkington gives an introduction to his now deceased mother's third volume of memoirs, relating how he wrote a poem 'To Samuel Foote Esq, on seeing his Englishman i...Samuel Foote John Carteret PilkingtonTo Samuel Foote, Esq. on seeing his Englishman in ...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[John Locke] "says it [is the] same faculty that invents judges".William Blake John LockeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Beatrix PotterPeter RabbitPrint: Book


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