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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I send you a characteristic letter from John Collier, which please keep for me. I suspected Pollock from the first; but did not think Collier himself had had a hand in i...Robert Louis Stevenson John Collier Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799
1800-1849		A Satyrical View of London, by J. Corry. 1 vol. The above vol. is a tolerable production; it treats principally of fashion, beaux, belles, London tradesmen, quack doctor...Ellen Weeton John CorryA Satirical View of London at the Commencement ofPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer. 3 vols. by J.Cory [sic] There is nothing in this novel, or in the author's Satyrical View of London, that would induce me to waste my tim...Ellen Weeton John CorryThe Mysterious Gentleman FarmerPrint: Book
1600-1699'Then with Creed, and read over with him the Narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as endeed it is, and speaks most slightingly of that whol...Samuel Pepys John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown
1600-1699'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron comin...Samuel Pepys John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown
1600-1699'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron comin...Sir William Penn John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown
1800-1849'Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they feed on by Curtis'John Clare John CurtisBritish Entomology ... Insects Found in Great Brit...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Curwen's letters, I have recorded my opinion of the style, the commonplace of the abuse of tithes pervades the work tho' he fails more than most of the advocate...Benjamin Newton John CurwenObservations on the State of IrelandPrint: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord Russel and Algernon Sydney. Johnson. " Why, Sir, ev...Samuel Johnson John DalrympleMemoirs of Great Britain and Ireland Print: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord Russel and Algernon Sydney. Johnson. " Why, Sir, ev...James Boswell John DalrympleMemoirs of Great Britain and Ireland Print: Book
1600-1699'To Westminster-hall and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queene. Which I read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ that we did nothing but lau...Samuel Pepys John DaunceyThe history of the thrice illustrious Princess Hen...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Alida Klementaski] and Harold Monro first met at a poets' club dinner at the Cafe Monico on 14 March 1913. The subject was the nineties poet John Davidson [...] Alida,...Alida Klementaski John DavidsonunknownUnknown
1600-1699'and there however I got her to read to me the "History of Algier", which I find a very pretty book.'Elizabeth Pepys John Davies [transl]The history of Algiers and its slaveryPrint: Book
1600-1699'I read to her out of the "History of Algiers", which is mighty pretty reading'Samuel Pepys John Davies [transl]The history of Algiers and its slaveryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'Mary Shelley John DavisTravels of Four Years and a Half in the United Sta...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'Mary Shelley John DavisTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1500-1599?Reed by me N. Hughes 1595 ? noember? N. Hughes John DavisThe World's Hydrographical DescriptionPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DavisonDiscourses on ProphecyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Written on end papers of manuscript book of Dawson's diary] 'this book was Read with much Interest by me May 1864, the Stags herein must be the Present Bell & Dragon. Fr...Francis Cain John DawsonJohn Dawson's Diary, Volume One, 1722-30, 1731-40.Manuscript: Sheet
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson John DawsonGreek-English Lexicon of the New TestamentPrint: Book


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