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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
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shades to dwell!/ One positively might as well/ be buried...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine H. SmithCountry and TownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde encore ignore le vrai nom/ Esprit mysterieux, mortel...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine[L'Homme]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear the busy hours away/That is not home where lonely ni...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonLines on HomePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He treads [?], as treads a monarch towards his throne/ Dark...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Henry NeeleThe cometPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ and its pleasures in all their new lustre begin/ When...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas Moore[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festive light/ For the Royal city rejoiced by night/ ... ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe illuminated cityPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring forth the hidden might/ Which hath lain bedded in the si...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe forest sanctuaryPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec moi meme;/ Ah prends garde un peril extreme/ De caus...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e rotundo/ ...'; [total = 37 lines]Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [unknown]Poesie di OssianPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars, my dear goddess decree/ That Old Maid as I am, an ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Mary] [Tighe]The old Maid's prayer to DianaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched his harp and nations heard, entranced/ As some vast ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Pollock]The Course of Time [extract]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou bright emanation of the/ Divinity, thou brilliant s...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonThe Dead and the Living [extract]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for relief/ But slowly did her succour come/ And a pati...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine William Wordsworth[The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton A...Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful years!/ And how ea...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreMy BirthdayPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other passions fly/ All others are but vanity/ Earthly the...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] Southey[The curse of Kehama, canto X]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/ Which howso'er the sun and sky/ May tempt its bough...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreTo my motherPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ Of endless woe complains/ Be mine in patient hope alo...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonResignationPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employment for those retired hours/ in which we are altoge...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Joseph Addison[Spare Time]Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our experience = it is/ sorrow which teaches us to feel pro...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonJournal of an AnnuyeePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light and warmth once liv'd below/ Where have ye ta'en your ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown


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