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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely perfectly the chief events in the reigns of the English...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William PinnockCatechismPrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]CatechismPrint: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William PinnockCatechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction...Print: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T...George Eliot (pseud) Auguste ComteCatechism Of Positive Religion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, "Catechismi intorno al Protestanteismo ed alla Chies...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Giovanni PerroneCatechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chie...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's "Cateline", a very excellent piece.'Samuel Pepys Ben JonsonCatelinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in the vol of plays lent me by my father, the farce of "Catherine and Petruchio"; abridged from Shakespeare's play of "Taming of the Shrew".'Joseph Hunter David GarrickCatharine and Petruchio. A Comedy Altered from Sha...Print: Book
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations stud...Florence Reynolds Mark Rutherford [pseud.]Catharine FurzePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Hugh WalpoleCathedral, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from ...Reginald Robson Hugh WalpoleCathedral, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterCatholick TheologiePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, into a play. Catiline is a very middling play. The c...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am meant / Catiline: They had lost their science else.'...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonCatiline his ConspiracyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonCatiline his ConspiracyPrint: Book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Ram...Elizabeth Sewell Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the "Spectator" and "The Rambler", Mason's plays, Addiso...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Tag at the close of the last Act of Cato is written by Mr Pope, and is apparently the worst Tag in the whole Play, cold spiritless & dull - did Pope write them ill o...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the Power it has over our Passions too; for nobody I beli...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book


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