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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1868: 'Dr Hook asked A. to read "Enoch Arden." He replied he could not to-day. Dr Hook thereupon began in fun to read it so ba...Dr Hook Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Babs made a garden for himself. Read Enoch Arden to Babs before tea.'Verena Pennefather Alfred, Lord TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for some time, called upon us. My father took her over the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonEnoch Arden (extracts)Unknown
1800-1849'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinEnquiry concerning . . . Political JusticePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plat...Mary Shelley William GodwinEnquiry concerning . . . Political JusticePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinEnquiry concerning . . . Political JusticePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; s...Samuel Johnson David HumeEnquiry concerning Human Understanding Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; s...James Boswell David HumeEnquiry concerning Human Understanding Print: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinEnquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'I would recommend you to read Godwins enquiry concerning Political Justice — but the work is large & I mi...Robert Southey William GodwinEnquiry concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Experience never wasted her lesson on a less fit pupil — yet Bedford my mind is considerably expanded ...Robert Southey William GodwinEnquiry Concerning Political Justice Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinEnquiry Concerning... Political JusticePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Political Justice.'Mary Shelley William GodwinEnquiry Concerning... Political Justice, AnPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'Thomas Green Bernard MandevilleEnquiry into the Origin of VirtuePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, February 1796, 'Count Leopold Berchtold. - this man (foster-brother of the Emperor Joseph) is one of those rare travellers characters who...Robert Southey Leopold Graf von BerchtoldEnsaio Sobre a Extensão dos Limites da Beneficienc...Print: 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 A.E.W. MasonEnsign KnightleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray, if you love laughing, read "the [italics] Entail [end italics] or the Lairds of Grippy". It is admirable for that purpose, tho' far more broadly Scotch than I can ...Louisa, Lady Stuart John GaltEntail, The, or The Lairds Of GrippyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read and talk - still think about my little baby - 'tis hard indeed for a mother to loose a child - Hogg and C.[harles] C.[lairmont] come in the evening - CC goes at 11....Mary Godwin Bernard le Bouyer de FontinelleEntretiens sur la pluralite des mondesPrint: Book
1900-1945Summary of notes on the half-title page and rear papers. Heavily annotated, with marginalia in both English and German throughout. Vernon Lee Rudolf GoldscheidEntwicklungswerttheorie, Entwicklungs?konomie, Men...Print: Book
1800-1849'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, alw...Eleanor Anne Porden VirgilEnvyPrint: Book


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