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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'Read in library; for first time, in Swift's "Ode to Athenian Society". Not in good state to judge, but thought it but heavy, though not worse perhaps than odes generally...	William Windham	William Warburton	The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Luke)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife asking why - "To get them into the way of it."'	John Ruskin	Machiavelli	Florence	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'Paradise Lost and 'regaind' "'Comus' & 'Allegro' & 'P...	John Clare	John Milton		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for inclosures and Mavor that busy notemaker and book compil...	John Clare	Thomas Tusser	Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Phillips' Tour. He writes "Bedford presents 'objects of exhaustless eulogy' when referring to the different chantres".'	John Cole	Phillips	Tour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read yet and hope I shall not leave the world without read...	John Clare	William Shakespeare	Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'	John Cole	Sir Richard Phillips	Personal Tour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'	John Cole	Hugh Blair	A sermon on the death of Christ	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read in Southeys "Wesley"'	John Clare	Robert Southey	The life of Wesley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the afternoon Erskines "Evidence of Revealed Religion" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of its object I have ever read...'	John Clare	Thomas Erskine	Remarks on the Internal Evidence	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read in the day part of Burkitt's "Poor Man's Help or Young Man's Guide", which I think the best book I ever read of the size.'	Thomas Turner	William Burkitt	The poor man's help and the young man's guide	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read in the evening & went to bed early'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.	Katherine Mansfield			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.	Katherine Mansfield		[poetry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the greek grammar'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[Greek Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the Greek grammar'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[Greek Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read in the greek grammar'.	Mary Godwin	unknown	[greek grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the morning and work'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read in the morning.'	John Buckley Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown

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