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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[Johnson said] There is in "Camden's Remains", an epitaph upon a very wicked man, who was killed by a fall from his horse, in which he is supposed to say, 'Between t...Samuel Johnson William CamdenRemains Concerning BritainPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was like...James Hogg R.H. CromekRemains Of Nithsdale And Galloway SongPrint: Book
1800-1849'My Ain Fire Side' 'O I hae seen great ones...'[transcript of text] 'from the Nithsdale and Galloway Songs'Emma Bowly Robert Hartley CromekRemains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: with histoPrint: Book
1800-1849'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's...Charlotte Bury John TweddellRemains of the late John Tweddell, fellow of Trini...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rachel BakerRemarkable Sermons of Rachel Baker and pious ejacu...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Forsyth's tour'Mary Shelley Joseph ForsythRemarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Forsyth's tour'Mary Shelley Joseph ForsythRemarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters during an...Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 10th [...] Read Tour by Forsyth'.Claire Clairmont Joseph ForsythRemarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during a...Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Dec. [...] 20th. [...] Letter from Mr. Baxter and Forsyth's Travels in Italy. After dinner I read it.' [records further readings from this text, some wit...Claire Clairmont Joseph ForsythRemarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during a...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 para beginning 'I admit that the existing stock of sp...John Drummond Erskine John WheatleyRemarks on currency and commercePrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupider than he suggests: but was not stupid.'Edward Morgan Forster Samuel Johnsonremarks on OthelloPrint: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson Joseph AddisonRemarks on Several Parts of ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Whateley's Shakespeare, and very ingenious and interesting it is...' Charles Darwin Thomas WhateleyRemarks on some of the Characters of Shakespeare
1850-1899'Read Channing on Napoleon'John Ruskin W.E. ChanningRemarks on the Character of Napoleon BonapartePrint: 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 ErskineRemarks on the Internal EvidencePrint: Book
1800-1849'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of religion" the gift of Lord Radstock [...] a very se...John Clare Thomas ErskineRemarks on the Internal Evidence for the TruthPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have read through Lord Orrery's History of Swift. I greatly like it.'Samuel Richardson Lord OrreryRemarks on the Life and Writings of Dr SwiftPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery's might both be true, though one viewed Swift more, ...Samuel Johnson John Boyle, 5th earl of OrreryRemarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan S...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Pearson's "Remarks on the Theory of Morals"...'Thomas Green Edward PearsonRemarks on the Theory of MoralsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Remember Me! By Bernard Barton Esq' ' "Remember me!" However brief / Those simple words... [transcribes text]'Mary Dugdale Bernard BartonRemember Me!Unknown


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