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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
 
1800-1849'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Buonaparte'.Sydney Smith Anne Jean Marie Rene SavaryThe Memoirs of the Duke of RovigoPrint: Book
1800-1849"I attempt to read a book which attacks my most cherished sentiments as calmly as one which corroborates them. I have not read your writings slightly, I have daily occas...Percy Bysshe Shelley William GodwinPolitical JusticePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to read it because a few copies only had arrived in Lond...Sydney Smith [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be right perhaps in calling her preface dull and stupid bu...Sydney Smith Mary Berry (ed.)[Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and t...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Edmund Burke[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Homer[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Suetonius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Adam Smith[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith William GodwinThe Inquier: Reflections on Education, Manners and...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just been reading Allen's account of your Administration. Very well done, for the cautious and decorous style; but it is really quite shameful that a good stout a...Sydney Smith John Allen[article in the Annual Register, 1806]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ruin it in spite of all Brougham can say - and Perceva...Sydney Smith [n/a][The Budget]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long winded'.Sydney Smith John Locke[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'It was my intention to review Ferriar's "Theory of Apparitions"; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is impossible to take any notice of it'.Sydney Smith John FerriarEssay Towards a Theory of ApparitionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidity, that nothing could be said of it but what was gr...Sydney Smith Robert Ker PorterAccount of the Last Russian CampaignPrint: Book
1800-1849'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidity, that nothing could be said of it but what was gr...Sydney Smith Isaac Milner[Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish characters. Everything else I have read of hers I th...Sydney Smith Maria EdgeworthEunicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'.Percy and Mary Shelley Suetonius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'.Percy Bysshe Shelley I. Casaubon (ed.)Historia AugustanaPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening talk with Shelley read Emilia Galotti'.Mary Godwin Gotthold Ephraim LessingEmilia GalottiPrint: Book
1800-1849'M. reads Miss Bailey's plays'.Mary Godwin Joanna Baillie[Plays]Print: Book


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