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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I have never had the pleasure of meeting him [Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy] ; but I've read and admired his book.[...] I re-read Admiral Kennedy's book with gratit...Joseph Conrad William Robert KennedyHurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Fifty Years in th...Print: Book
1600-1699'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vexed that I would not hear her'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ever I read; and I will take much pains to understan...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostatickes", which the more I read and understand, the mo...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so walked to Barne Elmes, whither I sent Russell, reading of Mr Boyles "Hydrostatickes", which are of infinite delight.'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."' Alfred Tennyson Theocritus HylasPrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'We were sitting (1857 or so) late at night in the Farringford attic-room [...] and Tennyson read over to m...Alfred Tennyson Theocritus HylasPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel DanielHymen's TriumphUnknown
1800-1849[Lloyd transcribed 16 lines from this 24 line Hymn onto the verso of a printed form with the title 'Duties Returned in Arrear Under Property Act ... 1815.'. The sheet is ...Edward Lloyd Isaac WattsHymn 69: Christ Appearing to His ChurchUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.<...		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of ChamouniUnknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

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...		Mary Pollard Percy Bysshe ShelleyHymn to Intellectual Beauty
1700-1799?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor Watts hymns for me and told me the meaning of them ...Joseph Mayett Dr WattsHymnsPrint: Book
1700-1799?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answered one valuable purpose; as it caused me to embrace...James Lackington WesleyHymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too were our companion.'John Cole KingHymnsPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'Can you find anything equal to his [Ossian's] descriptions of nature; his address to the Sun in Carthos, that to the Moon in Darthula, and ...Elizabeth Smith OssianhymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'Dining out frequently [...] as soon as she came home at night, and had read at my requ...Harriet Martineau hymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Homer's Hymns'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlutarchHymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes Homer's Hymns'Percy Bysshe Shelley HomerHymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 April 1832: 'I believe I ought to have written to you before to thank you for lending Synesius to me [...] I have gone thro...Elizabeth Barrett Synesius Bishop of PtolemaisHymnsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 25 July 1779:] 'I do not wonder you were struck by Mrs Barbauld's Hymns. They are all excellent, but there are some passages amaz...Elizabeth Carter Anna Laetitia BarbauldHymnsUnknown


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