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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'G. is very much interested in the "black penitent" and is now reading it in the window in mamma's little room.'Lady Georgina Cavendish 'the black penitent'Print: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797): 'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] we are of an afternoon, my aunt reads and tells us st...Harriet Ponsonby Voltaire L'Enfant prodigePrint: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797): 'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] we are of an afternoon, my aunt reads and tells us st...Harriet Ponsonby storyPrint: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish (1798): 'The dinner here consisted of Mr. Hare sitting all the evening with his taper legs crossed like a tay...Mr Hare Gazette ExtraordinaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had been given him by a young woman, who had found it in a ...William Gifford treatise on algebraPrint: Book
1700-1799'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had been given him by a young woman, who had found it in a ...William Gifford Fenning'Introduction' [on algebra]Print: Book
1700-1799'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and a few odd numbers of magazines.'William Gifford BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and a few odd numbers of magazines.'William Gifford Thomas a KempisImitatio ChristiPrint: Book
1700-1799'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and a few odd numbers of magazines.'William Gifford 'odd numbers of magazines'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'While under the tuition of Mr. Smerdon, Gifford had translated the "Tenth Satire" of Juvenal for a holiday task.'William Gifford Juvenal Satire XPrint: Book
1700-1799'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays twice and Voltaire's works once.'William Gifford Voltaire worksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Besides studying Greek and Latin, Gifford learnt French and Spanish while at Oxford. He went through Moliere's plays twice and Voltaire's works once.'William Gifford Moliere playsPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed (not entirely accurately) in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes from a later edition of the grammar by Edward Leedes, headmaster of King Edwar...Edward Pordage Edward LeedesEnglish Examples. To be Turned into LatinPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whi...Edward Pordage John DrydenThe Medall. A Satyre Against SeditionPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition (1682); notes from the 'Epistle to the Whi...Edward Pordage John DrydenEpistle to the WhigsPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's 'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Re...Edward Pordage John Dryden'Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Me...Print: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Thomas Sprat's 'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince, Oliver Lord Protector, &c. P...Edward Pordage Thomas Sprat'To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince,...Print: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from the fifth edition of Thomas Sprat's The Plague of Athens (1688) [p.34] [...] his allegory on t...Edward Pordage Thomas SpratThe Plague of AthensPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from Samuel Pordage's Azaria and Hushai. A Poem (1682) p.38. Edward Pordage Samuel PordageAzaria and Hushai. A PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799Transcribed in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extracts from John Dryden's The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a Poem (1682). Edward Pordage John DrydenThe Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel a PoemPrint: Book


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