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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
 
1700-1799'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'Thomas Turner Christopher SmartOn the eternity of the Supreme Being: a poetical e...Print: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun...Thomas Turner Christopher SmartOn the immensity of the Supreme Being: a poetical ...Print: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun...Thomas Turner Christopher SmartOn the omniscence of the Supreme Being: a poetical...Print: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun...Thomas Turner Christopher SmartOn the power of the Supreme Being: a poetical essa...Print: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 12 August 1751: 'I have not seen the Oxford and Cambridge Verses. The only late publication I have met with is Mr Smart's Prize V...Elizabeth Carter Christopher SmartOn the Eternity of the Supreme BeingPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Sorry I am late in thanking you for the little book and the friendly inscription. I greatly enjoyed the parodies on those writers I have read.'Joseph Conrad Christopher WardThe Triumph of the Nut and Other ParodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read "P. Proteus" in the even'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Christopher WielandGeheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Prot...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, [c.19 February 1810] (letter fragmentary): 'Have you seen my Brother Christopher's publication? Lives of eminent men connected with ...Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthEcclesiastical Biography, or Lives of Eminent Men ...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and from her we learned that Chris[topher Wordsworth]'s s...William Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthsermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and from her we learned that Chris[topher Wordsworth]'s s...Mary Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthsermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Priscilla Wordsworth, 27 February 1815: 'The day before yesterday Miss Alne dined with us, and from her we learned that Chris[topher Wordsworth]'s...Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthsermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: 'We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of expense. We have read it with much pleasure, and unit...William Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthA sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the ...Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth: "We thank you for your Consecration Sermon, which we received free of expense. We have read it with much pleasure, and unit...Wordsworth FamilyChristopher WordsworthA sermon preached in the Chapel of Lambeth at the ...Unknown
1850-1899'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been r...George Eliot [pseud] Christopher WordsworthGreecePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christopher WordsworthSix Letters to Granville Sharp, EsqPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christopher Wordsworth"Who Wrote Eikon Basilike?" considered and answere...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Agathon part of which I like but it [is] not so good as Peregrine'.Mary Godwin Christopher Martin WirlandGeschichte des AgathonPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Agathon - I do not like it. Wieland displays some most detestable opinions - he is one of those men who alter all their opinions when they are about 40 and then t...Mary Godwin Christopher Martin WirlandGeschichte des AgathonPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his Tusculan villa, i.e. at his father's house in Saffron...Gabriel Harvey Cicero Works including On FriendshipPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.Pupils at Mr Perry's schoolCicero  Print: Book


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