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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Finished Marsh's "Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France"...'Thomas Green Herbert MarshThe history of the politicks of Great Britain and ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read again, and with more attention, Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation"...'Thomas Green Richard HurdDiscourse concerning ImitationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Gildon's "Essay", prefixed to Shakespear's poems, in which he largely discuses Dramatic Poetry...'Thomas Green Charles Gildon"An Essay" in Works of ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Cicero's "Buruts"...'Thomas Green CiceroBrutusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Prettyman's "Theology". The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome...'Thomas Green George PretymanElements of Christian theologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, wills, genealogies, registers, and recods of all sort...Thomas Green Edmond MaloneCritical and Miscellaneous Works of John DrydenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Daines Barrington's curious "Observations on the Notes of Birds"...'Thomas Green Daines BarringtonThe history of singing birdsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...'Thomas Green Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Kirkman's "Life of Macklin"...'Thomas Green James Thomas KirkmanMemoirs of the life of Charles MacklinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...'Thomas Green John DrydenProse Works, ed. MalonePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Mrs. Radcliffe's "Tour to the Lakes". Much might be expected from this Lady's well known powers of description, exerted on so congenial a theme...'Thomas Green Ann RadcliffeA journey made in the summer of 1794Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished the two first Volumes of Soame Jenyns "Works", edited by Cole...'Thomas Green Soame JenynsThe works of Soame Jenyns, EsqPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...'Thomas Green James BoswellThe life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849'Began Herder's "Outlines of the Philosophy of the History of Man", of which I had heard high praise;--but was soon obliged to desist. He appears to write like a great c...Thomas Green Johann Goffried HerderOutlines of a philosophy of the history of manPrint: Book
1800-1849'Glanced over Pye's "Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics"...'Thomas Green Henry James PyeA Commentary illustrating the Poetic of AristotlePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton", on his late Edition of Milton?s "Juvenile" Poems...'Thomas Green Samuel DarbyA letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton, on his late ed...Print: Book
1800-1849"I go on Merrily with my Greek & Latin; am very sorry that I did not begin to learn languages early in life as I find it very Easy; am now learning my Hebrew [ABC]. I rea...William Blake The New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849Mathematics, I have absolutely never thought on - excepting some trifles from the Ladies' and Gentleman's diary - which I shall have conscience enough not to trouble you ...Thomas Carlyle Reuben BURROWUnknown from 'Ladies' and Gentleman's Diary'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849"Perhaps Picturesque is somewhat synonymous to the word Taste, which we should think improperly applied to Homer & Milton, but very well to Prior or Pope. I suspect that ...William Blake William Gilpin3 Essays on Picturesque BeautyPrint: Book


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