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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of extracts from a speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his impeachment in 1680-1. Elizabeth Lyttelton William ScroggsSpeech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at hi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William SedgwickJustice upon the Armie RemonstrancePrint: Book
1700-1799Reading "Anedotes of Some Remarkable Persons Chiefly of The Present and Two Preceding Centuries'Joseph Hunter William SewardAnecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly oPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo...John Stuart Mill William SewellThe History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, o...Print: Book
1800-1849The Rev W. F. Hook to John Wilson Croker, 8 April 1839: 'Mr. Murray forwarded to me a copy of the "Quarterly Review" a few days ago, and he did so, I presume, by your ...T. W. Hook William Sewellarticle on 'the Oxford Divines'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he spea...John Clare William ShakespeareThe SonnetsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile William ShakespeareDouble Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writtPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels'in Shakespeare's ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scene, whatever the French critics may say. It at once ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is not what would be commonly called fine; but I would g...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo be? / Came he not home to- night?' in Shakespeare's...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is beyond the reach of anybody but Shakespeare.'Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in which Juliet at once withdraws her whole confidence f...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Lawrence, Macaulay remarks on the wonderful genius with...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is a pencil note in his copy of "Paradise Lost": "Had to write 500 lines of this for being caught reading "King Lear" in class."'Tom Thomas William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1850-1899'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespearePlays [various]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespearePlaysPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Warburton prop...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book


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