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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
 
1900-1945'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects o...R.B. Graham William BlakeTo the DeistsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects o...Francis Pollard [catalogue of Blake's canterbury Pilgrims pictures...Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evans read several short poems showing the two aspects o...Celia Burrow William Blake[lyrics]Print: Book
1850-1899'The sudden death of Henry Hallam was a great grief to my father, for the historian had been a good friend through thirty years. On hearing of Mr Hallam's last days he re...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Unknown
1800-1849'The superiority of the Scriptures to every composition of human genius, must appear incontestible to those who persevere in making those Scriptures their daily study. By...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1900-1945'The suppression of all newspapers left the universal craving for news unsatisfied, and the daily paper was replaced by short type-written notes which were secretly passe...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknown[type-written note]Manuscript: Type-written notes.
1700-1799'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it is troublesome to you." "Why, Sir (said he), I do n...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The swollen, childish and pedantic vanity that moved the said revisers to put 'bring' for 'lead', is a sort of literary fault that calls for an eternal hell ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Revised Version of New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Saints, so there you have a peep at our ...Maggie Oliphant A.B. JamesonLegends of the SaintsPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Tag at the close of the last Act of Cato is written by Mr Pope, and is apparently the worst Tag in the whole Play, cold spiritless & dull - did Pope write them ill o...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Tear / Moore' [transcription of text].Mary Groom Thomas MooreThe TearUnknown
1800-1849'The Tear' 'When Friendship or Love' [Epigraph from Gray, not transcribed]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronThe TearPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'The Tear' 'When the soft tear steals silently from the eye/...'Carey/Maingay groupSusanna Blamire'When The Soft Tear Steals Silently'Print: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slowly and dully, staring at my candle. I took my Palgr...Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan Alexander Smith"Barbara"Print: Book
1800-1849'The thermometer never being above 80 or under 69 and the "St James' Chronicle" says today that while British troops were storming a fort in the E Indies the thermometer ...Rev Benjamin Newton n/aSt. James' ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The thing ["A Paheka"] in "West.Gaz." is excellent, excellent.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA PahekaPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The third was of the opossum kind, and much resembled that called by De Buffon "Phalanger". Of these two last I took only one individual of each. Bats here were many: ...Joseph Banks Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonHistoire naturelle, generale et particulierePrint: Book
1800-1849'The Three Black Crows Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJohn ByromThe Three Black CrowsUnknown
1600-1699'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'The Times called Cobbett a "comical miscreant", and the "vagabond" in an article on the "Poor Man's Friend", it appears there is another poor Man's friend published by H...Robert Sharp n/aThe TimesPrint: Newspaper


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