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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a ...Samuel Taylor Coleridge William GodwinAbbasManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey [Wesleyan magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a ...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyJoan of ArcUnknown
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey [battle histories]Print: Book
1800-1849" ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three volumes ... [they] fill half a page, as follows: "'...William Beckford StewartonRevolutionary PlutarchPrint: Book
1800-1849"The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains a transcription, in ink, not necessarily made in Byr...anon William BeckfordAnnotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgeme...Manuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of William Mudford, Nubilia in Search of a Husband (1809); an...anon William MudfordNubilia in Search of a HusbandPrint: Book
1800-1849"Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's declaration that if they were married, he and the Co...Walter Savage Landor Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of B...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Marco Polo's Travels which are amusing enough though containing a pretty large collection of absurdities [...]'Benjamin Newton Marco PoloThe Travels of Marco PoloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of the people bating his miracles [...] which was the ...Benjamin Newton Marco PoloThe Travels of Marco PoloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode of preaching he seems to give two guesses at the me...Benjamin Newton Richard HurdSermons [sermons preached at Lincolns Inn]Print: Book
1800-1849'Bad account of the Queen in today's St. James' Chronicle'.Benjamin Newton n/aSt. James' ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw a very bad account of the Queen today in the Courier at Camp Hill.'Benjamin Newton n/aThe CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a voyage round the world'.Benjamin Newton William DerhamPhysico Theology: or a Demonstration of the beingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'.Benjamin Newton Archibald CampbellA Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the 13th satyr of juvenal with J. Fendall as he is to be lectured on it the first term at Trinity Hall'.Benjamin Newton JuvenalSatiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Eustace's tour and think he is the best dissenter I have met with, rather prolix about churches, especially such as have nothing extraordinary about them.'Benjamin Newton John Chetwode EustaceA [classical] tour through ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey LloydLloyd's Penny TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey William CobbettWorksPrint: Book


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