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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'find my baby dead- Send for Hogg - talk - a miserable day - in the evening read fall of the Jesuits'.Mary Godwin Isaac D' IsraeliDespotism; or the fall of the JesuitsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having now occasion to go into Kent on business, I on Friday the 10th. went in the coach with Mr Chaldecott and 4 others to London where I quarter'd as usual (now my son...John Marsh Isaac d'IsraeliVarien; or Sketches of the TimesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Took the "Curiosities of Literature" to the Library. It contains many curious things; a great part of it consists of extracts from the different [Mags?]. Brought back Vo...Joseph Hunter Isaac D'IsraeliCuriosities of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Hogg stays all day with us - talk with him and read the fall of the Jesuits and Rinaldo Renaldini - not in good spirits'.Mary Godwin Isaac D'IsraeliDespotism; or, the Fall of the JesuitsPrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to William Blackwood, following a period of illness: 'I am greatly better, but not able to write. The author's copy of the third volume of the "Curiositie...Walter Scott Isaac D'IsraeliCuriosities of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by that most entertaining and researching writer, Israel...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliQuarrels of AuthorsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliThe Literary CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Literary Character", in which marginal remarks from Byr...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliThe Literary CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidity, that nothing could be said of it but what was gr...Sydney Smith Isaac Milner[Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society...Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker Isaac Newton Print: Book
1700-1799"[Thomas] Bowman [Wordsworth's schoolmaster] once left the young W[ordsworth] in his study for a moment and returned to find him reading the Opticks."William Wordsworth Isaac NewtonOpticksPrint: Book
1600-1699"[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] something of the status of a demi-god. 'Does he eat an...anon Isaac NewtonPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle Isaac NewtonPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle Isaac NewtonPhilosophi? Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Isaac TaylorNatural History of EnthusiasmPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Isaac TaylorElements of ThoughtPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.'John Ruskin Isaac TaylorNatural History of EnthusiasmPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 3rd February, Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint and so nice in these shallow times that it is one lo...Gerald Moore Isaac WaltonThe Compleat AnglerPrint: Book
1800-1849'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Watt's "Lyric Poems" which then came first into my hand...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsHorae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric KindPrint: Book
1800-1849[Lloyd transcribed 16 lines from this 24 line Hymn onto the verso of a printed form with the title 'Duties Returned in Arrear Under Property Act ... 1815.'. The sheet is ...Edward Lloyd Isaac WattsHymn 69: Christ Appearing to His ChurchUnknown


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