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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'Read Burke's Disquisition prefixed to his "Sublime and Beautiful"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeA philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ide...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Lo...William Blake Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ide...Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 9th. Read Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland written as it is said by one Campbell. 'Sunday Sept. 10th. Read Survey of the South of Irela...Claire Clairmont Thomas CampbellA Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		An Essay on Old Maids. 3 vols. Has my approbation, although, or because, I am an Old Maid. What is the public opinion, I never heard - nor any opinion - but shall take t...Ellen Weeton W HayleyA Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent piece as ever I read, proving a soul in man and all t...Elizabeth Pepys L.G. de CordemoyA philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conf...Print: Book
1900-1945‘I go down today. Where to?—Nobody knows. May be in the Hosp. Train for days. Health: quite restored. Mood: highest variety of jinks. Weather: sub-tropical. Time: 1...Wilfred Owen Hilaire BellocA Pickled Company: Being a Selection from the Writ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas FullerA Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines There...Print: Book
1600-1699'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clear...Isaac Archer William WhatelyA Pithie, Short and Methodicall Opening of the Ten...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very good but inmethodical book.'Samuel Pepys Thomas MorelyA plaine and easie introduction to practicall musi...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my "less perishable" being. And how beautifully all those deeply felt...Joseph Conrad William RothensteinA Plea for a Wider Use of Artists and CraftsmenPrint: Pamphlet
1600-1699'...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and directed to Generall Monke in praise of the form of ...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [? probably]A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings" - concerning which I ...Thomas Carter David SimpsonA Plea for Religion and the Sacred WritingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'There are books one seems to have read before, and books one doesn't want to read, books that one reads with annoyance, pleasure, exasperation or wonder; but this, your ...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsA Poor Man's HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read...Bonar Thompson James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading of Tillotson's sermons over the second time, and so f...Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'...in the even read part of Sherlock upon death.' Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'This day completed the reading of Sherlock on death and which I esteem a very plain, good book, proper for every Christain to read; that is, rich and poor, men and women...Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock on death. I now having read "The Complaint" through...Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.'Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas BatemanA Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous DiseasesPrint: Book


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