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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields with a book - "Charles Grandisson" I am but at the seco...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne William RobertsonThe History of AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields with a book - "Charles Grandisson" I am but at the seco...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Hugh BlairLectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read of "Grandisson" - That Book pleases and interests me very much'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799'This evening I heard a lecture of a work made by Mr de Bressac which is the description of all the murders and horrors committed in France during the Rebellion. It is ea...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [Mr] de Bressac[account of French Rebellion]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I have done to read "Grandisson" that book has amused me vastly'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Ever since I have read "Rudolph of Wertenberg" I have more pleasure when I walk round this country, as it makes me remember on all that has happen in former times in thi...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown]Rudolph of WertenbergPrint: Book
1700-1799"amused myself with looking over Cowley's Geometrical Plates - the different Problems of Euclid are drawn upon Pasteboard Paper & cut so that you may lift them up & see t...Mary Hamilton John Lodge Cowley?[An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading today some of my journals and indeed find them so horribly stupid that it did not encourage me to continue them but as I hope that I shall soon have ...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Elizabeth Wynne[diaries]Manuscript: diary
1700-1799'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natu...Eugenia Wynne John Shore[elegies on deaths of wife and child]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His tale of woe is expressed in the most moving and natu...Eugenia Wynne William Henry Lyttelton[probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelto...Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's behaviour and though Mary's is very shameful yet I ca...Eugenia Wynne William RobertsonThe History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen...Print: Book
1700-1799'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince was retiring from the armee of Conde... [the full st...Eugenia Wynne [n/a][English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is very interesting and expressed with equal grace, eleg...Eugenia Wynne Christoph Martin WielandAgathonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partridges - Tuesday, reading English - Wednesday, studyi...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownUnknown
1700-1799'Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other. I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that worthy author Dumont, who has written with equal ign...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Jean DumontA New Voyage to the LevantPrint: Book
1700-1799'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the traveller Ulysses, who was an observer of men and mann...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Homer had chosen a hero somewhat less pettish and less ...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu HomerIliadPrint: Book
1700-1799'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! - You forget, dear sister, those very tales were wri...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownArabian TalesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain of the Smyrniote to deliver it to you with this lette...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'.Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Richard KnollesThe Turkish HistoryPrint: Book


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