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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Finished the "Epistle to a Friend". I do not so much admire it as I did the "Pleasures of Memory".'Joseph Hunter Samuel RogersAn Epistle to a Friend, with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Change will befall, and friend may part But distance only cannot change the heart'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam CowperAn Epistle to Joseph Hill Esq.Unknown
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old Duke of Buckingham'.Elizabeth Lyttelton AnonAn Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains f...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Charles] Lamb copied ... [John Beaumont, Bart., the elder, "An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont"] into his copy of Beaumont and Fletcher's Fifty Comedies ...Charles Lamb John BeaumontAn Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis BeaumontPrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
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1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Lo...William Blake John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of Locke's "Essay on Human Understanding", which I find to be a very abstruse book.'Thomas Turner John LockeAn essay concerning human understandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 13th. Begin Locke's essay on the Understanding'. Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Read 1st Chapter of Locke's Essay. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.'Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Feb. 18th. [...] Read Locke [goes on to make detailed notes].'Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 14th. [...] Begin Locke's on the Understanding.' ['Read Locke' subsequently recorded in entries for 15, 17, 18, 22, 29 April]. Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Locke.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'Mary Godwin John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 1st book of Locke - read Curt - & work - Shelley reads Locke, Plutarch, & Paradise Lost aloud.'Mary Godwin John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.Mary Godwin John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book


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