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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Buchanan (he observed,) has fewer [italics] centos [end italics] than any modern Latin poet. He not only had great knowledge of the Latin language, but was a great poeti...Samuel Johnson George Buchanan[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Buchanan, he said, was a very fine poet; and observed that he was the first who complimented a lady, by ascribing to her the different perfections of the heathen goddess...Samuel Johnson George BuchananNympha CaledoniaePrint: Book
1800-1849'Burn. May 1812' 'The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning /...' [transcribes poem]B.A.T. Herbert Robert BurnsThe Chevalier's LamentUnknown
1700-1799'Burney has translated a provencale Ballad written by Thibout King of Navarre 500 Years ago, into the prettiest English Verses I ever read, but as they will be published ...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney[translation of a provencale ballad]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, whe...Frances Burney Samuel JohnsonLife of WallerPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, whe...Frances Burney Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Burney likewise has experienced his [Johnson's] sportive Humour; when he shewed him his Book about Musick and enquired his Opinion concerning it; the Words are well arra...Samuel Johnson Charles BurneyHistory of MusicPrint: Book
1900-1945'But "La leçon bien apprise" is really quite....And what is wrong with "Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine"? I don't like it most, but I think it most suitable owing to its hu...Joseph Conrad Anatole FranceLes Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine, and La Leçon bien a...Print: Book
1600-1699'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of reading, I bought me a Primer, and got now one, then a...Thomas Tryon [unknown][reading primer]Print: Book
1900-1945'But as to "Buta" it is altogether and fundamentally good, good in matter--that's of course--but good wonderfully good in form and especially in expression.' Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamButaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'But at least, through my work at Oxford and my subsequent reading of F. S. Marvin and Gilbert Murray and H. G. Wells, I had come to realise history as the whole story of...Vera Brittain F.S. MarvinunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'Thomas Tryon [unknown][books]Print: Book
1600-1699'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in the City - though my Lord Brouncker says that these ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1850-1899'But by a lucky chance I happened upon a book included in Lubbock's "hundred" -George Henry Lewes's "Biographical History of Philosophy". It came just when I needed it an...Thomas A. Jackson George Henry LewesBiographical History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1600-1699'But by this discourse he was pleased to show me and read to me his account, which he hath kept by him under his own hand, of all his discourse and the King's answers to ...Sir William Coventry Sir William Coventry[record of discourse upon business of Lord Clarend...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from Christianity and has written a volume of discourses ...Thomas Carlyle Thomas ChalmersA Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation...Print: Book
1900-1945'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evolution of World Peace," restored to me that sense of ...Vera Brittain unknownThe Evolution of World PeacePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'But everything is blurred to a haze by your book of which I have just read the last words, and that is the only thing which seems real. I can only say that I am dazzled...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfTo the LighthousePrint: Book
1850-1899'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation thereupon, formed part of the business of the [Anti-Convi...John Mitchel [n/a]Commercial AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'But happening to mention one day to my Editor that I thought "Occult" stories would go down well just now, & that I had a lot of material for them in hand I was a little...Arnold Bennett 'Par Un Initie'Mysteres des Sciences OccultesPrint: Book


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