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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge John BarclayArgenisPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper to prayers and to bed'Samuel Pepys John BarclayArgenisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Extracts from [John] Barrow's Travels in China appear in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ...'Wordsworth FamilyJohn BarrowTravels in ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 19 April 1809 S[ara] H[utchinson] wrote to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank, "The nicest model of a churn I ever saw was in 'Barrow's account of the interior of Africa....Sara Hutchinson John BarrowTravels into the Interior of South AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [under...Sarah Harriet Burney John BarrowLife of Richard Earl Howe, K.G., Admiral of the Fl...Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare sa...John Wilson Croker John BarrowReview of Dupin, On the Navy of England and FrancePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen John Barrow (ed.)Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe...Sarah Harriet Burney John BayleyHistory and Antiquities of the Tower of London, th...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Charles] Lamb copied ... [John Beaumont, Bart., the elder, "An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont"] into his copy of Beaumont and Fletcher's Fifty Comedies ...Charles Lamb John BeaumontAn Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis BeaumontPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor (sir Johns) Poems. the more I read them the more I...Sir George Beaumont John Beaumont[poems]Unknown
1800-1849'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of Beaumont & Fletcher.'Claire Clairmont John BeaumontWoman PleasedPrint: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which contains The Minstrel and Sir martyn" ... [he]includ...William Wordsworth John BellBell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive PoetryPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was one day called aside, and a hand-bill was given me; and thinking it to be a quack doctor's bill for a certain disease, I expressed my suprise at its being given to...James Lackington John Biggs[conversion narrative]Print: Handbill
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen John BiglandSystem of Geography and HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has always happened to delay or curtail the reading hour...Jane Austen John BiglandLetters on the Modern History and Political Aspect...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not ye...Elizabeth Barrett John BiglandAn Historical Display of the Effects of Physical a...Print: Book
1600-1699'This day in the barge I took Berchensha's translation of Alsted his "Templum"; but the most ridiculous book, as he hath translated it, that I ever saw in my life; I decl...Samuel Pepys John BirchenshaTemplum MusicumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud'Thomas Jefferson Hogg John Black (trans.)Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramati...Print: Book
1500-1599'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence", [Gabriel] Harvey comments: "An Youth, & no Univers...Gabriel Harvey John BlagraveThe Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and mo...Print: Book
1900-1945'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I lik...John BluntunkownPrint: Book


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