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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
1800-1849		Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile t...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Edward YoungNight thoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849'When my day's task is at an end, I keep my nightly vigils with Young, whose Night Thoughts I do think, next to Milton's, the most sublime poem in the English language. I...Miss V[-] Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "What do you think of Dr. Young's 'Night Thoughts,' Sir?" Johnson. "Why, Sir, there are many fine things in them".' Samuel Johnson Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon t...James Boswell Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent judge zealous to his trust, giving sentence" upon t...Samuel Johnson Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She ...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so much did She delight in the Poetry of Dr Young - She ...Miss Cooper Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Delany to Samuel Richardson, 16 August 1751: 'I am now reading Dr Young's Night Thoughts, and can hardly forbear sending him a rapture of thanks for the entertain...Mary Delany Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 13 May 1818:] 'Read Young's Night Thoughts.'Elizabeth Firth Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 27th Jan. 1945. S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
...		Margaret Dilks Edith OlivierNight thoughts of a country landlady: being the pa...Print: Book
1800-1849'We waste, not use, ourtime; we breathe, not live' [single line] 'Young'Carey/Maingay groupEdward YoungNight Thoughts OR 'Night Two'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'Mary Shelley John FletcherNight Walker or, the Little ThiefPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near M...Claire Clairmont Thomas Love PeacockNightmare AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I rem...Virginia Woolf Thomas Love PeacockNightmare AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...Ernest E. Unwin Thomas Love PeacockNightmare AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849?My dear Sir, I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself the trouble of reading the first. It seems to me, in t...Charles Dickens Matthew BarkerNights at SeaPrint: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had in Djuna's book ['Nightwood'], of the share Emily w...Antonia White Djuna BarnesNightwoodPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding unknownNine GhostsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "Nine Tailors" all pm although I'd promised myself I'd work at night. But it was a lovely evening and I lay in a secluded corner of the garden on my rug and alth...Hilary Spalding Dorothy SayersNine Tailors, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'"Nine Tailors" all evening.'Hilary Spalding Dorothy SayersNine Tailors, ThePrint: Book


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