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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	'Finished Gibbon's "Memoirs of himself"--an exquisite morceau of literature...'	Thomas Green	Edward Gibbon	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Swift's "Four last Years of Queen Anne"; a clear, connected detail of facts, exhibited with exquisite art...'	Thomas Green	Jonathan Swift	The history of the four last years of the Queen	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...'	Thomas Green	Edmund Burke	A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ide...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...'	Thomas Green	Adam Smith	Essays on philosophical subjects	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read over Beattie's "Elements of Moral Science"--a miserable work...'	Thomas Green	James Beattie	Elements of moral science	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over the first Vol. of the "Tatlers"...'	Thomas Green	Richard Steele	The Tatler	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation": a critical disquisition of considerable depth and skill...'	Thomas Green	Richard Hurd	Discourse concerning Imitation	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the "1st Epistle of Horace", Lib. 2 (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus) with the aid of Dacier's notes, and Hurd's Commentary...'	Thomas Green	Horace	Epistola ad Augustum, annotated by Richard Hurd	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Hurd's "Commentary on Horace's Art of Poetry"...'	Thomas Green	Horace	Art of Poetry, annotated by Richard Hurd,	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...'	Thomas Green	Horace Walpole	The Mysterious Mother	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...'	Thomas Green	Thomas James Mathias	Pursuits of Literature	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Longinus on the Sublime; to which I had been led, by Gibbon's critique in his "Extraits Raisonnes"...'	Thomas Green	Longinus	On the Sublime	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the 1st Book of Quinctilian "De Institutione Oratoria"...'	Thomas Green	Quintilian	Institutes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over the "Beggar's Opera". The slang of low iniquity, is happily given in this strange drama...'	Thomas Green	John Gay	Beggar's Opera	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over Brown's "Essays on Satire", prefixed to Pope's "Moral Poems"; in which the nature and end of Satire is happily portrayed...'	Thomas Green	John Brown	An essay on satire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I am quite ductile...'	Thomas Green	Anonymous	Arabian Nights Entertainments	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began, and read the first section of, Wollaston's "Religion of Nature"...'	Thomas Green	William Wollaston	Religion of Nature delineated	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of poetry...'	Thomas Green	William Gifford	The Baviad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Barrington's "Observations on the Ancient Statutes"; a well conceived and elaborate work...'	Thomas Green	Daines Barrington	Observations on the Ancient Statutes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Warton's "Life of Pope" prefixed to his edition of Pope's "Works"; and compared Wakefield's "Preface" to his "Observations on Pope". These two critics differ e...	Thomas Green	Joseph Warton	Life of Pope, in Works,	Print: Book

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