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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his retur...James Boswell Horace Print: Book
1700-1799'I was however turning over Horace yesterday to look for the Expression [italics] tenui fronte [end italics] in Vindication of my Assertion to Johnson that low Foreheads ...Hester Lynch Thrale Horace'8th Ode'Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'The intrepidity of a just and good man nobly set forth by Horace. "The man resolved and steady to his trust,/ I... Horace Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him'John Ruskin Horace[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs HoraceunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'After arranging for the little gunner captain to go straight through from Fas so as to be in Kuweit [sic] by 8, and testing Marris' verse translation of Horace's "Odes",...Ronald Storrs HoraceThe Odes of Horace, Books i-iv, and the Saecular H...Print: Book
1800-1849Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been manifested to me.Elizabeth Barrett Horne Print: Book
1900-1945'I thought it would be interesting to me in my work (Salesmanship - Hover)' HoverSalesmanshipPrint: Book
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put o...Priscilla Gurney How[account of mission]Print: Book
1800-1849"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into reasoning upon men and things, the causes of misery, th...Gerald Massey Howitt Print: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Hudson[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'About a fortnight ago my gums swelled, and some small pimples rose on the inside of my mouth, which threatened to become ulcers; I flew to the lemon juice, which had bee...Joseph Banks Hulme[book with medical directions]Print: Book
1800-1849'All the while I am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm trees in the hot-house and come home and read Humboldt: my enth...Charles Darwin HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I hope you continue to fan your Canary ardor: I read & reread Humboldt, do you do the same, & I am sure nothing will prevent us seeing the Great Dragon tree.' Charles Darwin HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I now first felt even moderately well, & I was picturing to myself all the delights of fresh fruit growing in beautiful valleys, & reading Humboldts descriptions of the ...Charles Darwin HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume. Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'.John A. Carlyle HumeunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I...Elizabeth Smith HuntEssay on the happiness of the life to comePrint: Book
1800-1849'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them. In the first place my Brother and Si...William Wordsworth HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
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1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Huxtable Print: Book
1700-1799'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in 1762. Goldsmith asserted, that there was no poetry ...Robert Dodsley Ibbot'Fit of the Spleen, A'Print: Book


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