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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, Adam Bede, and other of Georg...Thomas Burt John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies": "Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and the heart loses its life for ever."'Vera Brittain John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

[...]

4. The subject of the eveni...		Francis E. Pollard John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one.Gertrude Savile John SturmySesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy.Print: Book
1700-1799Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12.Gertrude Savile John SturmySesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy...Print: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Harriet MartineauSettlers at HomePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses", with an eye to a peculiar and distinguishing doctrine which runs through the whole, and is manifestly a particular favourite ...Thomas Green Joshua ReynoldsSeven DiscoursesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his "Discourses to the Royal Academy". He observed on...Samuel Johnson Joshua ReynoldsSeven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy Print: Book
1700-1799'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his "Discourses to the Royal Academy". He observed on...Samuel Johnson Joshua ReynoldsSeven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy Print: Book
1850-1899'We are reading the "Seven Lamps of Architecture", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensical, other very powerful, and the beginnings of chap...Charlotte Mary Yonge John RuskinSeven Lamps of ArchitecturePrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles SmithSeven Letters on National ReligionPrint: Book
1900-1945'When "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in "Time and Tide".'Winifred Holtby Thomas Edward LawrenceSeven Pillars of WisdomPrint: Book
1900-1945I am so delighted to have 'The Seven Pillars'. I read the poem again, which I liked, and am keeping the rest for a little as all the household here are enjoying the...Freya Stark Thomas Edward LawrenceSeven Pillars of WisdomPrint: Book
1900-1945I am reading 'The Seven Pillars'. The chapter about the Arab character is very true and finely put.Freya Stark Thomas Edward LawrenceSeven Pillars of WisdomPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Seven wise mastersPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday...Peter R. Oliver unknownSeventeenth Century VersePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. It was my favourite at College. There is a rich pro...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusSeventh IdyllPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, January 21, 1832: "Read the 7th Olympic ode – about Agesias, & Rhodes"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarSeventh Olympian OdePrint: Book


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