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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'look over Roderick - very unwell'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyRoderick; the last of the GothsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making in half filld pages & fine paper'John Clare The Human HeartPrint: 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'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever writte...John Clare James MaddockThe Florist's DirectoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever writte...John Clare Elizabeth KentFlora DomesticaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" better [...] I cannot help smiling at my young fancys in ...John Clare John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly written they are in my mind much superior to Blairs ...John Clare Anonymous Eighteen Sermons Intended to EstablishPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute descriptions are great favourites of mine [...] [he m...John Clare James ThomsonThe Seasons (Winter)Print: Book
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'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
1850-1899'Looked at Mrs Browning's "last poems" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judgement.'John Ruskin Elizabeth Barret Browning[poems]Unknown
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece"'George Eliot George FinlayA History of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][chronicle of conquest of the Morea]Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he got sulky after a time & went off to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he got sulky after a time & went off to bed'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'looked in at the Yorick, there was no one at all there however I stayed & read for some time came home had some toddy & then went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Looked into "Philosophical Transactions" for paper of Dr Reid about momentums +c, could not find it but stumbled upon paper, page 663, i think vol.V or VI. among papers ...William Windham [unknown]Philosophical Transactions of the Royal SocietyPrint: Book


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