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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nathan HaleThe American System OR The effects of high dutiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'John Stuart Mill XenophonThe AnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		In her edition of Mary Gladstone's "Diaries and Letters", Lucy Masterman would suggest that it was under her father's influence that Mary read Butler's "Analogy".Mary Gladstone Joseph ButlerThe Analogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', which made her reticent for years about the comfort and ...Elizabeth Sewell Joseph ButlerThe Analogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington Joseph ButlerThe Analogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1700-1799'Wrote out of the "Analytical Review" an account of the Abbey of Glastonbury which they have extracted from Gilpin's Observations.'Joseph Hunter William GilpinThe Analytical Review; or History of LiteraturePrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book or other) in the Anatomy of Melancholy: and coming to...John Gadbury Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of MelancholyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of MelancholyPrint: Book
1850-1899'V.S. Pritchett had an uncle, an atheist cabinet-maker, who taught himself to read from The Anatomy of Melancholy, even acquiring a few Latin and Greek words from the not...Arthur Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of MelancholyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph ButlerThe Anatomy of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed...Francis Douce John WhitakerThe Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Sur...Print: Book
1800-1849'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I ...Jane Baillie Welsh Charles RollinThe Ancient HistoryPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons, Sherlock on Death, Watts' world to come, Rollin's "...John Cole Charles RollinThe ancient history of the EgyptiansPrint: Book
1800-1849'At home I acquired increased facilities for reading, by means of a small book-club, consisting of my landlord and a few of his friends. Of this I became a member; and ...Charles RollinThe Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagians,...Print: Book
1850-1899'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and rambles that took up so much of my time, but I would try to overcome my disinclination to serious reading. There we...William Henry Hudson Charles RollinThe Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginian...Print: Book
1850-1899'Once he gave out to Laura's class two verses of "The Ancient Mariner", reading them through first, then dictating them very slowly'.Flora Thompson Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1850-1899[Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife and two children [...] in the afternoon we sometimes...Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De VereCoventry PatmoreThe Angel in the HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading through your plays again. You are "très fait" as the French say. Tell me, had E[den] P[hillpotts] much to do with the "Angel"? It seems to me to be p...Joseph Conrad (Basil) Macdonald Hastings (and Eden Philpotts)The Angel in the HousePrint: probably an acting edition
1900-1945Brief notes in pencil on the front flyleaf, and some marginalia on the following pages only (all in English): 32, 34.Vernon Lee F.W. GambleThe Animal WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 August 1797: 'Our Edwards were tolerable considering the day they lived in. I have never thought so highly as our histo...Robert Southey Edmund HowesThe Annales, or Generalle Chronicle of England, Be...Print: Book


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