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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...]
Howard Smith André MauroisDisraeli: a picture of the Victorian agePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
" ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigraph from Milton on the title page, right after the a...anon Jonathan EdwardsDissertation Concerning Liberty and NecessityPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dugald StewartDissertation FirstPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to George Pellew, 23 June 1883: 'I found your thin red book [on Jane Austen] on my table when I came in late last night. I read it this morning before I left...Henry James George Pellewdissertation on Jane Austen's novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826: 'When Luxmoore was with us, a little before he called at Hopend [sic; for Hope End, Barrett's family home], I she...[probably] Charles Scott Luxmoore Uvedale Pricedissertation on modern pronunciation of classical ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his MS dissertation on Charterhouse pronunciation of classical Greek: 'my brother [a Charterhouse ...Elizabeth Barrett and Edward Barrett Moulton-BarrettUvedale Pricedissertation on modern pronunciation of classical ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon; I do not think he has given the right reasonings ...George Grote GoguetDissertation on SanchoniathonPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon; I do not think he has given the right reasonings ...George Grote GoguetDissertation on the Book of JobPrint: Book
1800-1849'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I...Thomas Carlyle John PlayfairDissertation Second: Exhibiting a general View of ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas NewtonDissertations of the Prophecies with the BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censured by that Prelate, thus retaliated:-"Tom knew he s...Samuel Johnson Thomas NewtonDissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarka...Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censured by that Prelate, thus retaliated:-"Tom knew he s...Dr Adams Thomas NewtonDissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarka...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, once at Oxford, twice at Richmond with Lady Grey, wh...anon Thomas NewtonDissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remark...Print: Book
1800-1849'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on th...Sarah Harriet Burney Thomas NewtonDissertations on the Prophecies, which have remark...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Contents are mainly comments on, or corrections to, the te...John Drummond Erskine Francis GladwinDissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme o...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'Mary Shelley Lodovico Antonio MuratoriDissertazioni sopra le Antichit? italiane gia comp...Print: Book
1800-1849'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia'Mary Shelley Lodovico Antonio MuratoriDissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane, gia com...Print: Book
1800-1849'On 13 May 1812 [Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded in his diary: "William Wordsworth was more afraid of the liberal than the methodistic party on the bench of bishops, and r...William Wordsworth Jeremy TaylorDissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, APrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Francis E. Pollard Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. 22nd June 1943
H. R. Smith in the chair
1. The first part of the meeting was spent most happily in the Frensham garden. [...] <...
Margaret Dilks Aleksandr AfinogenovDistant PointPrint: Book



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