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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
1700-1799'Finished the "Italian"...'Thomas Green Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of the voluptuousness, intrigues, and abandoned profligac...Thomas Green Anthony HamiltonMemoires de la Vie du Comte de GramontPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Living Authors".'Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Scriblerus"; an exquisite piece of satire, of which the separate parts of Swift, Pope, and Arbuthnot, are sometimes very distinguishable...'Thomas Green Alexander PopeMemoirs of Martin ScriblerusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Misérables" and began "Simon Dale". [...].The little Morel boy and I made paper boats and sailed them in the bath this afternoon. We passed the Northern po...Gertrude Bell Anthony HopeSimon Dale Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Misérables" and began "Simon Dale". [...].The little Morel boy and I made paper boats and sailed them in the bath this afternoon. We passed the Northern po...Gertrude Bell Victor HugoLes MisérablesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and suspicious legend...'Thomas Green John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Travels of Anacharsis". This work is ably executed, and must have cost prodigious pains; but it still leaves us, as we must ever be left, extremely ignora...Thomas Green J. J. Barth?lemyTravels of Anacharsis the Younger in GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Whisperer or Tales & Speculations" by Gabriel Silvertongue. It was written by J. Montgomery and part of it appeared in "The Iris" in the year 1795. All th...Joseph Hunter James MontgomeryThe Whisperer; or Tales & SpeculationsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, than the plan of this little romance...'Thomas Green Frances Chamberlaine SheridanThe History of NourjahadPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's "Lectures in Divinity". His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first: but this wears off, as I advance...'Thomas Green John HeyLectures in divinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 1st Book of Quinctilian "De Institutione Oratoria"...'Thomas Green QuintilianInstitutesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 1st Volume and Part of "Du Bos sur la Poesie et Peinture"...'Thomas Green Jean-Baptiste DubosCritical reflections on poetry, painting and musicPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...'Thomas Green William RussellThe History of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 3rd Vol of Dodderidge's "Family Expositor".'Joseph Hunter Philip DoddridgeThe Family Expositor; or a Paraphrase and VersionPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the account of the Earls of Shrewsbury.'Joseph Hunter Edmund LodgeIllustrations of British HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.'George Eliot [pseud.] AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Finished the Browning Letters - one of the biggest feats of the war! It has taken a tremendous effort of will on my part to get through them. Felt that if I had been in ...Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: Book
1800-1849'finished the day in reading a few chapters of the New Testament.'William Upcott n/aBiblePrint: Book


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