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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Gray James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[TRANSCRIBED] ?Twelve True Old Golden Rules For those who like to fare better than they now do, and at the same time to thrive and grow rich. 1 The rea...Mary Bacon unknownTwelve True Old Golden RulesUnknown
1700-1799'The wonderful Cambridge Prophet who has been most cruelly Martyrd To be seen at [followed by a gap. It continues] He is not the Wandering jew, nor an old Levite, no...Mary Bacon unknownunknownPrint: Advertisement
1700-1799'I admired many of his [Wordsworth's] pieces exceedingly, though I had not then seen his ponderous "Excursion"'.James Hogg William Wordsworth[poems]Print: Unknown
1700-1799A number of recipes copied from 'First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy', by Hannah Glasse,1747. For example: 'To boile...Mary Bacon Hannah GlasseFirst Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Pla...Print: Book
1700-1799West Indian Islands Islands len Brd chief towns Belonging to _______________________________________________________...Mary Bacon unknown[Almanac]Print: Unknown, set out in a table
1700-1799[Transcribed in Mary Bacon's commonplace book/ledger: ?Mars is situated next above the Earth his course being between the orbit of Jupiter and that of the Earth but v...Mary Bacon unknown[almanac]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I have seen nothing new, & have been reading the Memoirs of Mde de Maintenon in French, which are exceedingly entertaining'.Sarah Harriet Burney Laurent Angliviel de la BeaumelleMemoires pour servir a l'histoire de Madame de Mai...Print: Book
1700-1799'My [underlined] vast [end underlining] dear Sister! O why, instead of 5, not give us [underlined ten, twenty [end underlining], of such dear delicious people? - I have ...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances BurneyCamilla; or, a Picture of YouthPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Gray James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...James Hogg James Hogg'The Queen's Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'Of your ode a few words before I set to transcribing. Before I read the last half sheet I wished you to ...Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordOdeManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'I have read all Juvenal with pleasure it is a manly stile more adapted to me than the sly sarcasms of Horace but ...Robert Southey HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Louisa and I began this day to read French. Our book was a little light piece of French gallantry entitled 'Journal Amoureux'. She pronounced best and I translated best....James Boswell and Louisa [anon.]Journal AmoureuxPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined criticks prefer the sneering strokes of Horace — for me ...Robert Southey Samuel JohnsonVanity of Human WishesPrint: Book
1700-1799Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 30 January 1829: 'I [...] rejoice to learn from yourself that you are seriously set about adding [as editor] to the charms of the m...Walter Scott Justinian 'Institutes and Pandects'Print: Book
1700-1799Sir Henry Ellis to John Wilson Croker, from the British Museum, 29 October 1829: 'I understand from Mr. Murray that you are engaged [as editor] upon a "Life of Dr. Joh...Samuel Johnson Horace  Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 11-18 May 1794: 'Your Anacreon & Æschylus please me much — unluckily I have neither the one nor the other in the original — ...Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles Bedfordtranslations and versesManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 7 June 1794: 'In return for your ode to Indolence I know nothing better than these strains to her eldest born. they immortalize...Robert Southey Horace Walpole BedfordOde to IndolenceManuscript: Sheet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 20-21 July 1794: 'When Coleridges work is published you will see a Latin Poem of Allens which did not gain the praise. the s...Robert Southey Robert AllenLudi Scenici (unpublished)Manuscript: Sheet


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