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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'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetration into human Nature; the Characters too so neatly, ...Hester Lynch Thrale William LawSerious Call to a Devout and Holy LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetration into human Nature; the Characters too so neatly, ...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'2 February 1780.] Here is Dr Pepys come with a Manuscript of Dr Spence's for Johnson's Use & Inspection now he is writing the Lives of the poets: It is an admirable [ita...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph SpenceAnecdotesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Lord Bolingbroke said he learned Spanish so as to read & write Letters in it with only three Weeks Application, - Baretti said the same of Miss Horneck - I suppose both ...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph SpenceAnecdotesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'When I read the Character of Cambray in this Collection, I could not keep from falling on my Knees to give God thanks for having created such a Man: It is a common Trick...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph SpenceAnecdotesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'The two Stories of Marlboro's Avarice are very capital: Sr Godfrey's Dream is [a] good Thing too - they are all too long to transcribe'.Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph Spence[Anecdotes]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as t...Hester Lynch Thrale  Print: Book
1700-1799'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as t...Alexander Pope  Print: Book
1700-1799'Of all the People I ever heard read Verse in my whole Life the best, the most perfect reader is the Bishop of Peterboro'.'John Hinchcliffe [poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus, but I think very little remember'd'Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeEloisa to AbelardPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus, but I think very little remember'd'Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonComus: A MasquePrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Matthew PriorAlma; or, The Progress of the MindPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale John Dryden'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting'Print: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale Abraham CowleyLife and FamePrint: Book
1700-1799'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think of reading at any other Time: but they remind me of [...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson Print: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Brinsley SheridanCritic, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Brinsley SheridanSchool for Scandal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale George ColmanClandestine Marriage, ThePrint: Book


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