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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport; and endeed are very witty'Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThe second and third advice to a painter, for draw...Print: Book
1600-1699'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote.'Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep.'Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pleasure, and a fine day - reading over the second par...Samuel Pepys Sir William DavenantThe Seige of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palate still down.'Samuel Pepys William DavenantThe Siege of RhodesPrint: Book
1600-1699'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended much.'Samuel Pepys Thomas MiddletonThe Spanish GypsyPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's "Pleas of the Crowne", very fine noble reading.'Samuel Pepys Sir Edward CokeThe third part of the Institutes of the Laws of En...Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morning of Browne concerning the Lyne of Numbers, in whic...Samuel Pepys John BrownThe use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or g...Print: 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'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.'Samuel Pepys Thomas PorterThe VillainePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The Visions", translated from Spanish by Le Strange; wh...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [translator]The visions of Don Francisco de QuevedoPrint: Book
1600-1699'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &c., where was very good reading.'Samuel Pepys Adam OleariusThe voyages and travels of the ambassadors from th...Print: Book
1600-1699'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present till my father's death, or at least very little, yet I...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles Will and I had his opinion on it, and still find mor...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings "works", which is a noble book - to bed.'Samuel Pepys [King] [Charles I]The workes of Charles IPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.'Samuel Pepys J BlaeuTheatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipua...Print: Book
1600-1699'And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discourse; to White-hall towards night, and there he did l...Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThird Advice to a paynterManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing but nonsense that I was ashamed to read in it.'Samuel Pepys William PennTruth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony aga...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys Richard HookerWorks... in eight books of ecclesiastical polityPrint: Book


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