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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'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter Oliver GoldsmithCitizen of the World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wanted. It commended itself to my warmest approbation, im...Thomas Carter James ThomsonSeasons, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I must now mention some other books which about this time fell in my way. Among these an odd volume of the "Spectator" deserves particular notice. Where it came from or ...Thomas Carter [n/a]Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's Evening Post", and at this I sometimes got a hasty p...Thomas Carter [n/a]Lloyd's Evening PostPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings" - concerning which I ...Thomas Carter David SimpsonA Plea for Religion and the Sacred WritingsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were given me by my master. I do not remember their exact...Thomas Carter Rev. Thomas Scott[various essays]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]|: 7pp (6 ink, 1 pencil) of ms notes of journeys (all in south of England or Wales) in the blank pages following the end of the text, in a standard format eg:...John CaryCary's New itinerary: or an accurate delineation o...Print: Book
1800-1849'[The Comtesse] has a [italics] library [end italics] of novels - literally; so that I wonder she has not, by filling her head with such a mass of trash, committed half a...Lady [-] unknown[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j...Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop n/aCourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have been reading his father's life. It explains the story ...Richard CumberlandMemoirs of Richard Cumberland: written by HimselfPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have been reading his father's life. It explains the story ...Richard CumberlandObserver, The: Being a Collection of Moral, Litera...Print: Book
1800-1849'Southey's long epic poem, called "Roderick the Last of the Goths", is the new work. Every one is busy reading it, or sleeping over it'.Robert SoutheyRoderick: The Last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sir H. Davy is going to publish a volume of poetry. I saw one of the poems; it is very abstruse, and metaphysical, on the nature and essence of man, beginning with him a...Humphry DavyunknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was...Thomas Carter [unknown]The GravePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from the 1st volume of Voyages et Recherches dans la Grec...John Drummond Erskine Bernard de MontfauconAntiquity explained, and represented in sculptures...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also has several tiny samples of fabric pinned into insi...Magdalene Erskine Bernard de MontfauconAntiquity explained, and represented in sculptures...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meaning, if I would read that book, putting into my hands ...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter [n/a]The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical


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