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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo...William Wordsworth Henry Fielding Print: Book
1700-1799"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of...William Wordsworth Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799"Towards the end of his life, W[ordsworth] recalled that during his 'earliest days at school' he read 'any part of Swift that I liked: Gulliver's Travels, and the Tale of...William Wordsworth Jonathan SwiftA Tale of a TubPrint: Book
1700-1799"In June 1797, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote to Mary Hutchinson, telling her that, as soon as [S. T.] C[oleridge] arrived at Racedown Lodge, 'he repeated to us two acts an...Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOsorioManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799"[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Carlyle's copy, with Mr Mackenzie's supplemental lines ...William Wordsworth William CollinsAn Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlan...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799"On 27 July 1799, W[ordsworth] told Cottle that 'Looking over some old monthly Magazines I saw a paragraph stating that your 'Arthur' was ready for the press!'"William Wordsworth  Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"On 21 March 1796, [Wordsworth] told [William] Mathews that D[orothy] W[ordsworth] 'has already gone through half of Davila.'" Dorothy Wordsworth Enrico Caterina DavilaHistoria delle Guerre Civili di Francia ... nella ...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witchcraft o...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bryan EdwardsThe History, Civil and Commercial, of the British ...Print: Book
1700-1799"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend [ii 89], 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witc...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel HearneA Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's ...Print: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] recollected that at Hawkshead ... ' ... I, with the other boys of the same standing, was put upon reading the first six books of Euclid, with the exception ...William Wordsworth EuclidElements I-IV, VIPrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Faris...William John Bernard Farish Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Faris...Charles Farish John Bernard Farish Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] read the copy [of John Foxe, Acts and Monuments of Matters most Special and Memorable] preserved today in the Hawkshead Grammar School Library ..."William Wordsworth John FoxeActs and Monuments of Matters Most Special and Mem...Print: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s note to Descriptive Sketches 428 reads: 'These summer hamlets are probably (as I have seen observed by a critic in the Gentleman's Magazine) what Virgil a...William Wordsworth Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"'I have received from [Basil] Montagu, Godwyn's second edition,' reports W[ordsworth] on 21 March 1796: 'I expect to find the work much improved. I cannot say that I hav...William Wordsworth William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1700-1799"On 27 Feb. 1799, W[ordsworth] told [S. T.] C[oleridge] that 'My internal prejudge[ments con]cerning Wieland and Goethe ... were ... the result of no negligent perusal of...William Wordsworth Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799"Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of W[ordsworth] and then of D[orothy] W[ordsworth]."William Wordsworth Paul HentznerA Journey into EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799"Several extracts from Hentzner are copied into MS 1 of The Borderers, D[ove] C[ottage] MS 12, in the hand firstly of W[ordsworth] and then of D[orothy] W[ordsworth]."Dorothy Wordsworth Paul HentznerA Journey into EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799Witness statement in the trial of James Stewart for theft: James James (Witness): "afterwards I saw the advertisement in the 'Daily Advertiser' about the prisoner at t...James James Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in a trial for highway robbery William Aldrich: "on the 23rd of June, at half past ten at night, the prisoner Hanlon brought me a watch to pledge... ...William Aldrich Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper


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