√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1700-1799 'Looked over Brown's "Essays on Satire", prefixed to Pope's "Moral Poems"; in which the nature and end of Satire is happily portrayed...' Thomas Green John Brown An essay on satire Print : Book1800-1849 Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cross and the marginal comment then arguing a related ... John Drummond Erskine Adam Dickson An essay on the causes of the present high price o... Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'. George Eliot [pseud.] Richard Chenevix Trench An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With... Print : Book1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Captain Charles Pasley, 28 March 1811: 'Now for your book. I had expected it with great impatience, and desired a Friend to send it down to me imme... William Wordsworth Captain Charles Pasley An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions o... Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, Foxley [Price's home] October 1826:
'Mr Price's desire that I should have read these sheets [proofs of Price's Essay on the Modern ... Elizabeth Barrett Uvedale Price An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek ... Print : Unknown1800-1849 James Commeline to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 December 1827:
'Together with Mr Price's book, allow me to return you my best thanks for the perusal of it. Though written [...... The Rev. James Commeline Jr Uvedale Price An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek ... Print : Book1800-1849 Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 December 1827:
'It gave me great pleasure to hear that you think so favorably of my Essay now that you have read the whole of it... Elizabeth Barrett Uvedale Price An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek ... Print : Book1700-1799 'Looked over, by a cursory perusal, Beattie's "Essay on Truth"...' Thomas Green James Beattie An essay on the nature and immutability of truth Print : Book1800-1849 'Read the 1st Part of Price's "Essay on the Picturesque"...' Thomas Green Uvedale Price An essay on the picturesque Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Robert Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population Print : Book1700-1799 'I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "... Samuel Richardson Joseph Warton An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope Print : Book1800-1849 'I think Mrs Montague [sic] has fully vindicated Shakespeare from the objections of Voltaire [...] Her three dialogues of the dead at the end of her essay, are I think ve... Joseph Hunter Elizabeth Robinson Montagu An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'Count Leopold Berchtold. - this man (foster-brother of the Emperor Joseph) is one of those rare travellers characters who... Robert Southey Leopold Graf von Berchtold An Essay to Direct and Extend the Inquiries of Pat... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr Wilkins's new book of the " Character", and so to bed.'
(Book purchased 15 May) John Wilkins An essay towards a real character, and a philosoph... Print : Book1600-1699 'and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr Wilkins his "Real Character", and perticularly about Noah's arke, wherein he doth give a very good account thereof, showing... John Wilkins An essay towards a real character, and a philosoph... Print : Book1600-1699 'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".' Elizabeth Pepys John Wilkins An essay towards a real character, and a philosoph... Print : Book1600-1699 'and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's "Reall Character", which doth please me mightily.' John Wilkins An essay towards a real character, and a philosoph... Print : Book1600-1699 'and so with great content and joy home - where I made my boy to make an end of the "Reall Character", which I begun a great while ago and doth please me infinitely, and ... John Wilkins An essay towards a real character, and a philosoph... Print : Book1700-1799 'Read Brown's "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times". The 2d Vol. is merely a supplementary comment on the 1st; and in that, after allowing us a spirit of... Thomas Green John Brown An estimate of the manners and principles of the t... Print : Book1800-1849 'An Evening contemplation in a College; in imitation of Greys Elegy in a country Churchyard "The curfew tolls the hour of closing gates;/ With jarring sound the porter tu... Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux John Doncombe An Evening Contemplation in a College Unknown
