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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'"The Memoirs of Living Authors" appears to be quite a catch-penny job. The author gives a list of their works & sometimes his opinion on them. A book of this kind is ver...Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Living Authors".'Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have not yet finished "Joan of Arc". Near 500 lines at the beginning of the 2d book were supplied by S.T. Coleridge. These appear to me to be the worst I have ever rea...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799'[...] Gaze on - then heart-sick [...] It is in the first edition of this poem, that I am reading, which Southey composed in 6 weeks & corrected it, while it was proceedi...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799'took "Joan of Arc" to the library. I think the 4 first books, are much superior to any which follow, if we except the 9th [in margin: & the vision of the Maid] but even ...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799'Brought "A Fortnights Ramble to the Lakes" from the Chapel Library; also the "Analytical Review" for July 1798, to read a masterly critique on the "Castle Spectre", whic...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Analytical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Brought Vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library. It is a book on very great call.'Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1700-1799'Brought the "Mon Mag" from Miss Haynes. It contains an account of the death of Dr Towers.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Monthly MagazinePrint: Book
1700-1799'For the sake of improving myself in the French language, began to translate Vertot's "Revolutions of Portugal".'Joseph Hunter Rene VertotHistoire des Revolutions de PortugalPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Epistle to a Friend". I do not so much admire it as I did the "Pleasures of Memory".'Joseph Hunter Samuel RogersAn Epistle to a Friend, with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'The anecdotes of Bowyer is to me a very entertaining book, I intend to read it through. I was much pleased with the following epigram by Sr Mr Brown "The king to Oxford ...Joseph Hunter John NicholsBiographical and Literary Anecdotes of W BowyerPrint: Book
1700-1799'The following story is taken from p 248 of the anecdotes of Bowyer. Among the innumerable stories that are told of him [Dr Brown Willis] [...] [1 1/2 page story].'Joseph Hunter John NicholsBiographical and Literary Anecdotes of W BowyerPrint: Book
1700-1799'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we have published in 1782, have adopted the remarks & ...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we have published in 1782, have adopted the remarks & ...Joseph Hunter Robert Dodsley (editor)A Collection of Poems in Six VolumesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Took Gibbon to the library. I have not had time to read more than one chapter being engaged with Bowyers. I can procure it another time.'Joseph Hunter Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1700-1799'Took Pindar's "Tales of Hoy" to the library; I think it much inferior to most of his other publications which I have seen. Corinna's "Epitaph", which I have transcribed...Joseph Hunter Peter PindarTales of the Hoy, interspersed with songPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Went to the library. Saw in Volume 4th of Nichol's "Select Collections of Poems" a poetical account of the monuments in Westminster Abbey, written with a considerable de...Joseph Hunter John NicholsA Select Collection of Poems; with notes (Vol IV)Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state...Joseph Evans Patrick ColquhounTreatise of the police of the metrpolisPrint: Book
1700-1799'I wrote another musical drama of three acts, and showed it to Mr Siddons. He approved of it very highly, with the exception of some trivial scenes, which I promised to a...Mr Siddons James Hogg[a verse drama]Manuscript: Unknown


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