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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
 
1850-1899'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest part of it is upon the topicks of the day, on which...James Boswell Charles ChurchillProphecy of Famine, The. A Scots PastoralPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:] 'I had just been reading a paper which I met with at Aylesbury: it was a most puffy preface to proposals published b...Thomas Edwards Proposal for 'Universal Dictionary of Commerce'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'George Eliot [pseud] anon.Prose Edda, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.Thomas Carlyle John MiltonProse worksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...'Thomas Green John DrydenProse Works, ed. MalonePrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 20 August 1751: 'You tell me nothing of Mrs Cockburn. I have read but little yet, but she seems to have had a most remarkable cle...Elizabeth Carter Alison Cockburnprose writing/sPrint: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...Jane Austen Samuel JohnsonProse writingsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730: 'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments concerning Milton's prose writings, agree with thos...Aaron Hill John MiltonProse writingsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Hookham FrereProspectus and Specimen of an Intended NationalPrint: Book
1800-1849'Had a double Polanthus & single white Hepatica sent me from Stamford round which was rapped a curious prospectus of an "Every day book" by W. Hone. If such a thing was w...John Clare William HoneProspectus for 'The Every-Day Book'Print: Advertisement
1800-1849?I shall certainly have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, and will turn over the prospectus in my mind, meanwhile.?Charles Dickens Richard BentleyProspectus for Bentley?s MiscellanyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's, of a new Treatise on Timber. Now here is a man mo...George Gordon Lord Byron Lord GlenbervieProspectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie...Print: Advertisement
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: Some blanks, left by printer, have been completed in either ink or pencil. The data entered covers numbers of crew, dates and costings. There are also copio... AnonProspectus of a plan for the building and equipmen...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scarcely anywhere so interesting a view of the interior ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous patron of learning. What with sophists, what with pret...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain that he wants only to get up a row among the sophists....Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himself. Nothing can be more courteous and generous than ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1850-1899"I had Plato in my pocket & intermittently read through the Protagorus - as well as I could - which lasted me till Bristol & I hope improved my Greek."Leslie Stephen PlatoProtagorusPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 25 April 1802: We spent the morning in the orchard -- read the Prothalamium of Spenser.'William and Dorothy WordsworthEdmund SpenserProthalamiumPrint: Book
1900-1945'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provence?. He died this year ? how sad he must have been ...Winifred Agnes Moore Ford Madox FordProvencePrint: Book


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