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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'the last weeks paper stated, that 200, 000 were out of work within 20 miles of manchester, &c, & the long drought is expected to have materially inguered [injured] the H...Benjamin Shaw [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favourite Virse of hers, Arise my Soul arise, Shake off ...Hannah Shaw [n/a]Bible ['the Scriptures']Print: Book
1800-1849'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'Betty Shaw [n/a]Bible ['her Testament']Print: Book
1800-1849'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'Betty Shaw [Wesley?][hymn book]Print: Book
1800-1849'April 20 1828 / on Betty Shaw wife of Benj. Shaw / ... this washer favourite verse Who suffer with our master here We shall before his face appear And by his side sit do...Betty Shaw Charles Wesley[Hymn] Come on my Partners in DistressPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a misquotation of 'restraint she will not brook', Book IX...Benjamin Shaw John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'I rose at 5 O'clock, and going to a small plantation that overlooked the Jed I learned all I ever knew of English Grammar. At that time grammar was not taught in such of...Robert White anon[English Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"'John Clare Samuel JohnsonThe Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there'John Clare James BeresfordThe Miseries of Human LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd over the magaze for amusement [...] the letter on mackadamizing is good - the review on Walladmoor is 30 pages long I wish De Quincey had better subjects for his g...John Clare Thomas de QuinceyThe London Magazine: Review of Walladmor by ScottPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Lookd over a new vol of provincial poems by a neighbouring poet Bantums "Excursions of Fancy" and poor fancys I find them' [lists vols by other local poets]John Clare John BantonExcursions of FancyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]'John Clare William HazlittLectures on the English PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good a...John Clare William HazlittA View of the English StagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the article on Byron carrys ignorance in the face of it [....John Clare [n/a]The London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good a...John Clare William HazlittLectures on the English Comic WritersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of religion" the gift of Lord Radstock [...] a very se...John Clare Thomas ErskineRemarks on the Internal Evidence for the TruthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read yet and hope I shall not leave the world without read...John Clare William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays these are.'John Clare Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not happy ones they seem to be a labour after exelence ...John Clare Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoems on Various SubjectsPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays'John Clare Vicesimus KnoxEssays Moral and LiteraryPrint: Book


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