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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord Byron[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle Walter Scott[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle Richard GloverLeonidas, A PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle William WilkieThe EpigoniadPrint: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle Jane PorterThe Scottish Chiefs, A RomancePrint: Book
1850-1899'What do you think of the "Gadfly"? I wrote what I thought to P. [presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined gallantly. But it comes to this, if his point of vi...Joseph Conrad E.(Ethel) L.(Lilian) VoynichThe GadflyPrint: Book
1800-1849'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; and the same suspicion has arisen again in my mind, ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frances Burney, Madame d'ArblayWanderer, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; and the same suspicion has arisen again in my mind, ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, ...Samuel Johnson [various works of classics and literature]Print: Book
1700-1799'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, ...Samuel Johnson Anacreon Print: Book
1700-1799'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, ...Samuel Johnson Hesiod Print: Book
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace[article on Fluxions in Encyclopaedia Britannica]Print: Book
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Literary and Statistical Magazine for ScotlandPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili...Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1900-1945'What I gather from the few poems of Hopkins that I have read is that the passion in his verse is predominantly intellectual and has a tortured quality about it; indicati...William Soutar Gerard Manley Hopkins[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'What I set out to say was that all these delays, vexing as they were, gave me the time to read "The Downfall of the Gods" three times from end to end. As to pages and ps...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordThe Downfall of the GodsPrint: Book
1800-1849'What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's "Divine and Moral Songs", which I read with so much interest as to ...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsDivine and Moral SongsPrint: Book
1800-1849'what I write for is to thank you again for sending me your brother's [Charles Darwin's] book. As for thanking him for the book itself, one might say "...Harriet Martineau Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selec...Print: Book
1900-1945'What I've thought of most to-day, and it has been running in my mind all the time, for we had to learn it by heart, is Rupert Brooke's The Soldier. I cannot feel ...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Rupert Brooke'The Soldier'Print: Book


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