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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
 
1600-1699'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][plays]Print: Book
1600-1699'And after dinner to the Change a little and then to Whitehall, where anon the Duke of York came and a Committee we had of Tanger; where I read over my rough draft of the...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[contract]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[contract]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'Mr Andrews Samuel Pepys[contract]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Thence home and to my office; wrote by the post, and then to read a little in Dr Powre's book of discovery by the Microscope, to enable me a little how to use and what t...Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experimen...Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner, to my chamber and made an end of Dr Powre's book of the Microscope, very fine and to my content'Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experimen...Print: Book
1600-1699'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to supper anon and then to my office again a while, collecting observations out of Dr Powres book of Microscopes, and so home to bed.'Samuel Pepys Henry PowerExperimental philosophy...containing new experimen...Print: Book
1600-1699'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ings "Aglaura", which methinks is but a mean play - not...Samuel Pepys Sir John SucklingsAglauraPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palate still down.'Samuel Pepys William DavenantThe Siege of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methinks.'Samuel Pepys John FletcherThe Custome of the CountryPrint: Book
1600-1699'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play'Samuel Pepys John FletcherThe mad loverPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain Fisher's ship, which we hire to carry goods to Tang...Samuel Pepys [Captain] [Fisher?][papers]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and th...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [proba...Print: Book
1600-1699'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and th...Samuel Pepys John HerneThe law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of...Print: Book
1600-1699'Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London; which I did, but spoke not to her all the way, but read as long as I could see my book aga...Samuel Pepys John HerneThe law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to supper, prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]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
1600-1699Heere is the well where waters flow, To quench our heat of sinne, Heere is the tree where truth doth grow To lead our liues therein. Heere is the iudge that stintes...Susanna Beckwith The Bible, that is, etc. [Geneva Bible]Print: Book


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