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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
 
1700-1799'In the evening a small bird of the noddy (Sterna) kind hovered about the ship, and at night settled on the rigging, where it was taken, and proved exactly the same bird ...Joseph Banks William Dampier"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have been told that this very method was proposed in the "Gentleman's Magazine" many years ago, but have not the book on board. Frezier, in his voyage to the South Se...Joseph Banks Amedee Francois FrezierRelation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du...Print: Book
1700-1799'All I can say is that when seen from the top of a building, from whence the eye takes it in at one view, it does not look nearly so large as it seems to be when you walk...Joseph Banks Francois ValentijnOudt en Nieuw Oost-IndiePrint: Book
1700-1799'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable to it. Rumphius says that they are sometimes so lar...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbrium AboinensisPrint: Book
1700-1799'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that have already been published, as every one has been ...Joseph Banks [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'[having written an imitation of Byron, Hogg got] a large literary party together, on pretence, as I said, of giving them a literary treat. I had got the poem transcribed...Mr Ballantyne James Hogg[poem from] The Poetic MirrorManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'The hours from seven to nine were spent in reading some useful and entertaining books such as Addison's works and particularly his political papers'Prince George Joseph Addison[Political works]Print: Book
1700-1799'Every Sunday after breakfast the Bishop of Norwich reads to their Royal Highnesses a practical explanation of the principles of the Christian religion'.Prince George [unknown][explanation of the principles of the Christian re...Print: Book
1700-1799'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, he "continued reading for half an hour", the booksell...King George III Thomas PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Yes," bolted out Mrs. Bowdler, "Harriet is one of the greatest admirers of 'Evelina'." These sort of abrupt speeches from people one hardly knows are amazingly distres...Henrietta Maria (Harriet) Bowdler Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [close italics] they may be called, for he never writes...Frances Burney Jerningham'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was like...James Hogg Allan Cunningham[imitations of Ossian]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was like...James Hogg R.H. CromekRemains Of Nithsdale And Galloway SongPrint: Book
1700-1799'No work of fiction could be read unless approved by their mother* ... [footnote] * An exception was made in the case of Fanny Burney's third novel, Camilla. "I've got le...Princess Elizabeth Fanny BurneyCamillaPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Do you know Dr. Burney, Ma'am?" said Mr Thrale. "No Sir, but I know his Book. I think it's vastly pretty;"'Victoria Kynaston Charles Burney'Present State of Music in France and Italy' or 'G...Print: Book
1700-1799'Lord, Ma'am, I was so entertained & I was quite ill, too, Ma'am, quite ill when I read it! - but for all that, Lord, Ma'am, why I was as eager, -& I wanted sadly to see ...Victoria Kynaston Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains of his Ancestor under the Title "Nugae Antiquae", w...Frances Burney Henry HarringtonNugae AntiquaePrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]Book of Common Prayer [unknown edition]Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jeremy TaylorA Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Yea...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward WilliamsPoems, Lyric and PastoralPrint: Book


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