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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson William RobertsonHistory of Scotland 1542 - 1603Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...James Boswell William RobertsonHistory of Scotland 1542 - 1603Print: Book
1800-1849'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonHistory of Sir Charles Grandison, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Sir C.[harles] G.[randison]Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonHistory of Sir Charles Grandison, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.Mary Godwin Samuel RichardsonHistory of Sir Charles Grandison, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794 'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyjoo, a very clever work in 14 volumes; and I am now r...Elizabeth Smith Juan de MarianaHistory of SpainPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.George Eliot [pseud.] George TicknorHistory of Spanish LiteraturePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Macaulay, who writes the account of St. Kilda, set out with a prejudice against prejudice, and wanted to be a smart modern thinker; and yet he aff...Samuel Johnson Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St Kilda Print: Book
1700-1799'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question of why the St Kildans always got a cold when visited...Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St Kilda Print: Book
1700-1799'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question of why the St Kildans always got a cold when visited...Reverend Christian Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St Kilda Print: Book
1700-1799He had said in the morning that "Macaulay's 'History of St. Kilda' was very well written, except some foppery about liberty and slavery. I mentioned to him that Macaulay ...Samuel Johnson Kenneth MacaulayHistory of St KildaPrint: Book
1800-1849'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &...Jane Austen Thomas ClarksonHistory of the Abolition of the African Slave Trad...Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by the persevering exertions of a righteous zeal. I allu...Elizabeth Hamilton Thomas ClarksonHistory of the Abolition of the African Slave Trad...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'Percy Bysshe Shelley Henry FieldingHistory of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Joseph Andrews'Mary Shelley Henry FieldingHistory of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Joseph Andrews'Mary Shelley Henry FieldingHistory of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous ...Thomas Carter David RamsayHistory of the American Revolution, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.' Joseph Conrad John William FortescueHistory of the British Army: Extracts from British...Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five British sailors' purchase of a woman sold at auction by A...Edward Morgan Forster General Sir Robert Thomas WilsonHistory of the British Expedition to EgyptPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ; these include: "'You bolt every lie that the Fathe...Thomas Babington Macaulay Joseph MilnerHistory of the Church of ChristPrint: Book


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