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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'As for yourself — I have been dwelling with you mentally for several days between the covers of your book [...].' Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellAnalysis of MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the favourite pursuits of George Grote. In the winter of 1829, a small group of studen...George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and othersJames MillAnalysis of the Phenomena of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Analysis of the Report of a CommitteePrint: Book
1700-1799'Brought "A Fortnights Ramble to the Lakes" from the Chapel Library; also the "Analytical Review" for July 1798, to read a masterly critique on the "Castle Spectre", whic...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Analytical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Finished reading "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolph Roeber. This is my introduction to Anarchism, and I find that there is something in its basic recognition of the living...William Soutar Rudolph RoeberAnarcho-SyndicalismPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday August 30th. Finish Kenilworth. Begin Anastasius. [...] 'Friday August 31st. Read Anastasius. [...] 'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastas...Claire Clairmont Thomas HopeAnastasius: Or, Memoirs of a GreekPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Anastatius [sic]'Mary Shelley Thomas HopeAnastasius; or, Memoirs of a GreekPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer and Anastatius [sic]'Mary Shelley Thomas HopeAnastasius; or, Memoirs of a GreekPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Anastatius [sic]'Mary Shelley Thomas HopeAnastasius; or, Memoirs of a GreekPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'...George Eliot and G.H. LewesFranz Joseph GallAnatomie et Physiologie du CerveauPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Windsor, and writer of "The History of Gustavus Adolphus"...Samuel Johnson Robert BurtonAnatomy of Melancholy, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson opined that] Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation. But there is a great spirit and great power in what...Samuel Johnson Robert BurtonAnatomy of Melancholy, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale Robert BurtonAnatomy of Melancholy, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] May [1914]. Alice Ottley Memoir.
Pennell 10/6 Memoirs. at last!
Neve Kashmir
A woman in the antipodes & far east
    by Mary ...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frederick Hugh CapronAnatomy of Truth, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mary Moorman, "Wordsworth's Commonplace Book," Notes & Queries NS 4 (1957) 400-5, reports that the commonplace book used by Wordsworth after 1800 contains "four verses f...William Wordsworth David HerdAncient and Modern Scottish PoemsPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'On with "Ambassadors" and some of Jane Harrison's "Ancient Art and Ritual": which makes me fear I shall never rise to the rarer heights of folklore and anthropology.'Ronald Storrs Jane Ellen HarrisonAncient Art and RitualPrint: Book
1800-1849'read 2 plays in the ancient drama'Mary Shelley [anon (ed)]Ancient English DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Old Plays'Mary Shelley Walter Scott (ed.)Ancient English DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Old plays'Mary Shelley Walter Scott (ed.)Ancient English DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 10 March 1826: '[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer and a remarkable antiquary. He publishd a collecti...Walter Scott RitsonAncient English Metrical RomancesPrint: Book


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