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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'When first we found the tree, we of course gathered the branches, and were surprised to find our hands instantly covered with legions of these small animals, who stung m...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AboinensePrint: Book
1700-1799'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of many holes, and running over the hand tickle so as t...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbarium AboinensePrint: Book
1700-1799'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable to it. Rumphius says that they are sometimes so lar...Joseph Banks Georg Eberhard RumphiusHerbrium AboinensisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun...George Eliot [pseud] Georg Gottfried Gervinus[on Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelWissenschaft der LogikPrint: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Hegel must either be frightfully clever, or a most egregious ass: I incline to the latter position.'Robert Louis Stevenson Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelunknownUnknown
1800-1849'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same kind of epiphanies as other classic literature. Anso...Alexander Somerville George AnsonA Voyage Round the WorldPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par..."Jacques", a flax dresser George AnsonA Voyage Round the WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'George AnsonVoyage Round the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public in behalf of Admiral Byng ...I also read Bally's poem on the wisdom of the Supreme Being, which I think is a very s...Thomas Turner George BallyThe Wisdom of the Supreme BeingPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [end italics] fools! - but really, I rather agree with...Mary Augusta Ward George BancroftHistory of the United States, from the Discovery o...Print: Book
1850-1899'Bancroft's History of the United States, even in a centenary edition, is essentially heavy fare ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George BancroftHistory of the United States of America from the D...Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoning. Barker has some strange gift he thinks & dimly t...Thomas Stearns Eliot George BarkerpoemsUnknown
1600-1699'This day I bought the second part of Dr Bates's "Elenchus", which reaches to the fall of Richard and no further, for which I am sorry.'Samuel Pepys George BateElenchi motuum nuperorum in Anglia pars secundaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began to read as my Sunday Reading Benson's "Life of Christ".'Joseph Hunter George BensonThe History of the Life of Jesus ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George BerkeleySiris: a chain of philosophical reflexionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] George Berkeley[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle George BerkeleyTreatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowle...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the Introduction to Berkeley's "Principles of Human Knowledge", in which he really seems to be serious and in earnest...'Thomas Green George BerkeleyA treatise concerning the principles of human know...Print: Book


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