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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written; not only abounding with beautiful rural imagery, a...James Boswell Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got a perusal of "The Life and Adventures of Sir Willia...James Hogg Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy Print: Book
1700-1799'One could not bear to read a Page of the Gentleman Instructed now, & yet what a favourite Book it was - can that ever be the fate of the Rambler? - perhaps so.' Hester Lynch Thrale William DarrellGentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous...Print: Book
1700-1799I wrote out of the Gentleman's Magazine the various [games?] assigned for the 9 of diamonds... to which I added my opinion on the subject.Joseph Hunter Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by a critic in the Gentleman's Magazine) what Virgil a...William Wordsworth Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the...Thomas Carter [n/a]Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I begun to write in my Common-place book, the account of the King of Patterdale [from the 'Gentleman's Magazine', borrowed on July 2 from 'the Library']'Joseph Hunter [n/a]Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted the notice and esteem of Johnson, in an eminent degr...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Gentleman's Magazine, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[end italics]'.Charlotte Mew Anita LoosGentlemen Prefer BlondesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[end italics]'.Caroline Frances Anne Mew Anita LoosGentlemen Prefer BlondesPrint: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an o...Henry More Ptolemy GeographiaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Strabo calls Carthage forty miles in circuit.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu StraboGeographicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'We fell to wondering, while the evening light faded from land to sea, what the meagre history of Ineboli could be - so remote it seemed, so forgotten - and it pres...Gertrude Bell StraboGeographicaPrint: 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 fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter Sir Richard PhillipsGeographyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy came in after supper and stayed with us about 2 1/2 hours. He and I looked over Gordon's "Geographical Grammar", and in particular the religions of all nations...Thomas Turner Patrick GordonGeography anatomized: or a compleat geographical g...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am so glad thou has been reading some works on Geology. 'Geological Sketches' was the first I ever read; it is an excellent preliminary work, and interested me so mu...Eliza Ellis Maria HackGeological Sketches and Glimpses of the ancient Ea...Print: Book
1850-1899'Geology'Sarah Good Archibald GeikieGeologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Ada Byron's] mother wrote [to Ada's tutor]: "There are no weeds in her mind; it has to be planted. Her greatest defect is want of order, which mathematics will remedy. ...Ada Byron PaisleyGeometryPrint: Book
1900-1945[The first two pages of these minutes (pp. 103–4) are missing from the scans. They will have begun: ‘Meeting held at 39 Eastern Avenue 31st May 1941    ...Edith B. Smith Gerald SavoryGeorge and MargaretPrint: Book
1900-1945[The first two pages of these minutes (pp. 103–4) are missing from the scans. They will have begun: ‘Meeting held at 39 Eastern Avenue 31st May 1941    ...Margaret Dilks Gerald SavoryGeorge and MargaretPrint: Book


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