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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad...James Watson William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in ...Mrs Watson William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a co...Thomas Carter William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Nearly the whole time from breakfast till Mr Legge's coming down, employed in reading Cobbett. More thoroughly wicked and mischievous than almost any that has appeared y...William Windham William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides.'William Windham William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient epicure, and Dartineuf, a modern epicure, Dodsley sa...Samuel Johnson John CampbellPolitical Survey of Great Britain, APrint: Book
1900-1945I return the typescript of your book. ['Politicians and the Press'] You asked me to tell you whether I thought it was interesting. It is very interesting, and it is all...Arnold Bennett Max BeaverbrookPoliticians and the PressManuscript: typescript
1500-1599
1600-1699		Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading of Lambert Daneau's Silva "of political aphorisms" (1583), "a now forgo...Gabriel Harvey Lambert DaneauPoliticorum aphorismorum silvaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristotlePoliticsPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Read part of the first book of Aristotle's Politics, with a view to ascertain his notions o...George Grote Aristotle PoliticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 15th Canto of Ariosto & the Polieucte of Corneille'Mary Shelley Pierre CorneillePolyeuctePrint: Book
1800-1849In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writing a work on antiquities.Anne Lister Joseph SpencePolymetics AbridgedPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] Michael DraytonPolyolbionPrint: Book
1700-1799'I think Drayton's Verses have a peculiar propriety in such work; his Subject being the same and his Poetry now becoming antient.' [Crabbe is alluding to his writing o...George Crabbe Michael DraytonPolyolbionPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Henry Fothergill Chorley, ?14 November 1845: 'I have read your three volumes of "Pomfret" with interest & moral assent, & with great pleasure in v...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleyPomfretPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the way reading "Pompey the Great" (a play translated fro...Samuel Pepys CorneillePompee: Pompey the Great, a tragedy. As it was act...Print: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 3rd August. ?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'. Gerald Moore Hilaire BellocPongo and the BullPrint: Book
1850-1899'Symonds has lent me Pontanus ... You can twig the argument; he is delicious.'Robert Louis Stevenson Giovanni PontanoPontani Opera, 'Hendecasyllaborum, Liber Primus' x...Print: Book
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2Print: Book
1800-1849?I send you herewith, the forthcoming Miscellany, with my glance at the new poor Law Bill.?Charles Dickens Poor Law BillPrint: Unknown


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