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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
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William TindalThe History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Borou...Print: Book
1500-1599'then I hard Mrs Brutnell Read of the Herball tell supper time'Mrs Brutnell William TurnerNew herballPrint: Book
1800-1849In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant (and ...George Gordon Lord Byron William TurnerJournal of a Tour in the LevantPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1500-1599'after dinner I went about the house, and read of the arball'Margaret Hoby William TurnerNew herballPrint: Book
1600-1699'tell about 3 a Cloke: then I rede of the arball'Margaret Hoby William TurnerNew herballPrint: Book
1700-1799"Thomas Gray's copy of William Verral's Complete System of Cookery contains several marks and additions, allegedly in Gray's hand [including records of success or failure...Thomas Gray William VerralA Complete System of CookeryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William VincentThe Greek Verb Analysed. An HypothesisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dr Ferris [...] has lent me a treatise of Dr Vincent's on the origin of the Greek verb, which seems to be ingenious. As far as I can collect from the little I have read ...William Windham William VincentThe Origination of the Greek VerbPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even finished reading Wake's "Catechism", which I think is a very good book and proper for all families, there being good instructions in it and also something wh...Thomas Turner William WakeThe principles of the Christain religion explained...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William WallA Conference between Two Men that had Doubts about...Print: Book
1800-1849It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps ...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace[article on Fluxions in Encyclopaedia Britannica]Print: Book
1800-1849'Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main. I would study, I thought, with great vehemence, every night - and the two hours at noon, ...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it but heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally...William Windham William WarburtonThe Divine Legation of Moses DemonstratedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been looking over books in the book case where the Dionysius stands, Stow's "Chronicle and survey of London". By wisdom, truth and heed was he/ advanced an alderm...William Windham William WarburtonThe Divine Legation of Moses DemonstratedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked through the 3d. Book of Warburton's "Divine Legation". It is impossible to pursue this eccentric Genius steadily, through the mazy curves along which he wheels h...Thomas Green William WarburtonThe divine legation of Moses demonstratedPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12 June 1796: 'Warburton has said that the Epic is arrived at perfection & consequently incapable of improvement — for Homer is...Robert Southey William Warburton'A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of Virgil’s Aene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Warden's account of Buonuparte [sic]. Whether or not W wrote this account with a view to influence his readers in favour of Buonaparte I know not but I think there ...Benjamin Newton William WardenLetters written on board [...]in which the conductPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1843: 'I have read the Letters from Palmyra. They are [...] powerfully written, in an elevated style which ris...Elizabeth Barrett William WareZenobia: or, The Fall of PalmyraPrint: Book
1850-1899'[William Watson] sent a copy [of "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems"] to [Thomas] Hardy, who replied appreciatively that he had already read it while staying with Edwar...Thomas Hardy William WatsonWordsworth's Grave and Other PoemsPrint: Book


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