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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'To Fortune' 'I care not fortune what you deny me, ... J. Thompson'Beanlands groupJames ThomsonThe Castle of Otranto OR To FortuneUnknown
1800-1849'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute descriptions are great favourites of mine [...] [he m...John Clare James ThomsonThe Seasons (Winter)Print: Book
1700-1799'I read today an English Tragedy by Thomson that pleased me much and made me like that author's works'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne James Thomson[a tragedy]Print: Unknown
1700-1799Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but when we set out, Eolus did not perform the task Thom...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James ThomsonThe seasonsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin James ThomsonCastle of Indolence, The
1900-1945Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I began [Thomson's] The Seasons last night; after Eddie [...Virginia Woolf James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputation than he deserves. His excellence is strong sens...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[letters to his sisters and accounts by them of hi...Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moralist contested this with very great warmth, accusing ...James Boswell James Thomson[letters to his sister and accounts by them of his...Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes, that the sense...Samuel Johnson James Thomson[Poems]Print: Book
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale James ThomsonSeasons, The - 'Spring'Print: Book
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale James ThomsonSeasons, The - 'Summer'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Tell me thou Soul of her I love" - Thomson', beginning 'Tell me thou Soul of her I love’. Catherine Austen James ThomsonOde: Tell me thou Soul of her I loveUnknown
1800-1849Friday, 28 March 1828: 'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a ringing. He really is entitled to the name of an Anti...Walter Scott James ThomsonTales of an AntiquaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook James ThoringtonRefraction of the Human Eye and Methods of Estimat...Print: Book
1800-1849''Sunday Sept. 17th. [...] Begin Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs.' Claire Clairmont James Touchet, Lord Audley, third earl of CastlehavenThe Memoir's [sic] of James Lord Audley Earl of Ca...Print: Book
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'Talking of the "Farce of High Life below Stairs", he said, "Here is a Farce, which is really v...Samuel Johnson James TownleyHigh Life Below StairsPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence to the Temple and sat there till one a-clock, reading at Playford's in Dr Ushers "Body of Divinity" his discourse of the Scripture; which is as much, I believe, a...Samuel Pepys James UssherA body of divinitiePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read with much interest, in a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, an "Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind", by J. Usher, author of Clio....'Thomas Green James UssherAn introduction to the theory of the human mindPrint: Book


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