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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Looked over some of Gray's Poems. I am almost tempted to agree in Johnson's character of these compositions...'Thomas Green Thomas GrayWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read several of Dryden's original Poems. The sudden transition from his "Funeral Lines on Oliver Cromwell", to his "Astraea Redux on the Restoration", the two first poe...Thomas Green John DrydenWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...'Thomas Green Alexander PopeThe Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefi...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Garth's "Dispensary"; a lively and pleasing poem, sparkling with considerable wit, but defrauded of its just fame by the "Dunciad"...'Thomas Green Samuel GarthThe DispensaryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Scriblerus"; an exquisite piece of satire, of which the separate parts of Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot, are sometimes very distinguishable...'Thomas Green Alexander PopeMemoirs of Martin ScriblerusPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Macfarlane's "History of George III.": a strange amalgama of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded into a specious and shewy mass, by a morbid vigour of...Thomas Green Robert MacfarlaneHistory of George IIIPrint: Book
1700-1799'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but want that varied grace, and inextinguishable spirit, ...Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonLondonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but want that varied grace, and inextinguishable spirit, w...Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human WishesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...'Thomas Green William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...'Thomas Green George CampbellThe Philosophy of RhetoricPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked into Young's "Night Thoughts": debased throughout with many poor and puerile conceits...'Thomas Green Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of the voluptuousness, intrigues, and abandoned profligac...Thomas Green Anthony HamiltonMemoires de la Vie du Comte de GramontPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Colley Cibber's "Life"; and was much delighted with his minute yet masterly account of the principal actors who figured previously to the Revolution...'Thomas Green Colley CibberApology for the Life of Colley CibberPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Hurd's "Dialogue" between Cowley and Sprat, on Retirement...'Thomas Green Richard HurdMoral and political dialoguesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over King's "Origin of Evil"...'Thomas Green William KingDe origine maliPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...'Thomas Green William RussellThe History of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principles...'Thomas Green John LockeEssay concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, than the plan of this little romance...'Thomas Green Frances Chamberlaine SheridanThe History of NourjahadPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Bertrand De Moleville's "Memoirs of the Last Year of the Reign of Louis the 16th". They contain much curious, and I presume, authentic information relative to ...Thomas Green Bertrand de MolevilleMemoires secrets pour servir a l'histoirePrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"; and read the two introductory sections, containing a masterly review of our political affairs...'Thomas Green Sir John DalrympleMemoirs of Great Britain and IrelandPrint: Book


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