√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1700-1799 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ... Samuel Bamford John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1700-1799 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ... Samuel Bamford [The New Testament] Print : Book1700-1799 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ... Samuel Bamford [tale of Robin Hood] Print : Book1700-1799 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ... Samuel Bamford Jack the Giant Killer Print : Book1700-1799 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ... Samuel Bamford [Story of St George and the Dragon] Print : Book1700-1799 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ... Samuel Bamford Richard Johnson The History of The Seven Champions Print : Book1700-1799 I was sent to another school in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, when I was about seven years of age. At this old woman's school it can scarcely be said that I learnt any... Francis Place Dillworths Spelling Book Print : Book1700-1799 School hours were from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5. The mode of teaching was this. Each of the boys had a column or half a column of spelling to learn by heart every morning ... Francis Place Bible Print : Book1700-1799 I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, with a number of badly drawn cuts in it explanatory of... Francis Place Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece; in Three Parts;... Print : Book1700-1799 I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, with a number of badly drawn cuts in it explanatory of... Francis Place Bible Print : Book1700-1799 I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anything which appeared to me calculated to remove my doub... Francis Place John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1700-1799 I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anything which appeared to me calculated to remove my doub... Francis Place various religious titles Print : Book1700-1799 It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holidays, these were Thursdays and Saturdays. On these occ... Francis Place Print : Book1700-1799 It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holidays, these were Thursdays and Saturdays. On these occ... Older boys from the school of Francis Place Print : Book1700-1799 My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall when the owner became offended at my standing readin... Francis Place various Print : Book1700-1799 My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall when the owner became offended at my standing readin... Francis Place various Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place unknown, histories of Greece and Rome Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place unknown, translated works by Greek and Roman write... Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place Tobias George Smollett Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place Henry Fielding Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place Robertson unknown [Robertson's works?] Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place translations from French writers Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place unknown various Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place unknown various [anatomy and surgery] Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place unknown [relating to the Arts] Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place unknown [many magazines] Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place Guthrie unknown [Guthries Geography] Print : Book1700-1799 ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m... Francis Place unknown [Geometry] Print : Book1700-1799 I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla... Francis Place Matthew Hale History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England Print : Book1700-1799 I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla... Francis Place various [Law books] Print : Book1700-1799 I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla... Francis Place various [biographies] Print : Book1700-1799 The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy... Francis Place John Locke Print : Book1700-1799 The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy... Francis Place various [history] Print : Book1700-1799 The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy... Francis Place various [voyages] Print : Book1700-1799 The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy... Francis Place various [politics and law] Print : Book1700-1799 I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly... Francis Place [geometry text] Print : Book1700-1799 I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly... Francis Place Williamson Euclid Print : Book1700-1799 In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I had read and cheap editions were in my possession; bu... Francis Place Thomas Paine Age of Reason Print : Book1700-1799 [Proceedings of the London Corresponding Society] The usual mode of proceeding at these weekly meetings was this. The chairman read from some book a chapter or part of a ... Members of the London Corresponding Society Print : Book1700-1799 I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'Enquiry concerning Political Justice'. Francis Place William Godwin Inquiry Concerning Political Justice Print : Book1700-1799 I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learning all I could after I left off working at night. Francis Place unknown [French grammar] Print : Book1700-1799 I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ... Francis Place Helvetius Print : Book1700-1799 I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ... Francis Place Jean-Jacques Rousseau Print : Book1700-1799 I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ... Francis Place Voltaire Print : Book1700-1799 Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' I was now turned over [to another t... Robert Anderson Thomas Dyche The Spelling Dictionary Print : Book1700-1799 Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' Iwas now turned over [to another te... Robert Anderson Reading Made Easy Print : Book1700-1799 Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' Iwas now turned over [to another te... Robert Anderson [A Primer] Print : Book1700-1799 "Reading - finished Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature which had been my Night lecture." Lady Eleanor Butler Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature Print : Book1700-1799 " Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages." Lady Eleanor Butler Metastasio Betulia Liberata Print : Book1700-1799 Finished the second volume of Mrs Radcliffe's 'Italian'. She is the best writer in her way of anybody I [have?] heard of. There is one scene in this volume which cannot b... Joseph Hunter Ann Radcliffe The Italian Print : Book1700-1799 We got the last volume of the Italian, I think it does not equal the former production Joseph Hunter Ann Radcliffe The Italian Print : Book1700-1799 'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone through it, & that so long ago.' Cassandra Austen Jane Austen First Impressions Manuscript : Book in Manuscript1700-1799 Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed most heartily at the Reading of it. I believ it is t... Anne Cust Samuel Richardson Pamela Print : Book1700-1799 ?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning them. I am now looking over, for this purpose, Wilkin... Maria Edgeworth John Wilkins Real Character or an Essay towards universal philo... Print : Book1800-1849 'I told him of my having now read every play of Euripides; & he seemed very much surprised [...] and observed, that very few men had done as much'. Elizabeth Barrett Euripides [all plays] Print : Book1800-1849 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...' Dorothy Wordsworth William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'She read sermons and other religious books, her favourite sermons being "professedly practical", without too much "Regeneration and Conversion", especially Sherlock's'. Jane Austen Thomas Sherlock [sermons] Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 [Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'. Jane Austen unknown [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M... Jane Austen Maria Edgeworth [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M... Jane Austen Ann Radcliffe [Gothic novels] Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M... Jane Austen Regina Maria Roche [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M... Jane Austen Charlotte Smith [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M... Jane Austen Laetitia Matilda Hawkins [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M... Jane Austen Jane West [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M... Jane Austen Hannah More Coelebs in Search of a Wife Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M... Jane Austen Lady's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 1800-1849 'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh... Jane Austen Charlotte Lennox Female Quixote, The Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh... Jane Austen Eaton Barrett The Heroine Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richardson, especially "Sir Charles Grandison".' Jane Austen Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1700-1799 1800-1849 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A... Susan Sibbald Ann Radcliffe Print : Book1800-1849 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a... Ellen Weeton Alain Rene Le Sage Gil Blas Print : Book1800-1849 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a... Ellen Weeton Mary Wortley Montagu [Letters] Print : Book1800-1849 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a... Ellen Weeton [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a... Ellen Weeton [magazine] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a... Ellen Weeton James Boswell Tour of the Hebrides Print : Book1800-1849 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a... Ellen Weeton Mungo Park Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa Print : Book1800-1849 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a... Ellen Weeton [Madame] de Genlis Print : Book1800-1849 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a... Ellen Weeton Elizabeth Hamilton The Cottagers of Glenburnie Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert Colyer, who rose to become a celebrated Unitarian minister, deliberately chose to dwell upon the moment when, as a child labourer in a Fewston linen factory, he b... Robert Collyer The History of Whittington and his Cat Print : Book1800-1849 'Growing up in extreme poverty in East London, Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand "Iliad" and was dazzled: "What a revelation it was to me. Pictures of romance and beauty I... Will Crooks Homer The Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 "Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one comfort to those that it nicknames 'Humbugs' [.]" John Clare John Bull Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament' John Clare The New Testament Print : Book1800-1849 I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it today John Clare John Foxe Foxes Book of Martyrs Print : Book1800-1849 'The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him discourse of fish ponds & fishing. What a delightfu... John Clare Izaak Walton The Complete Angler Print : Book1800-1849 Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goethe' by De Quincey these are excellent and sufficient ... John Clare The London Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great deal on credit for this world when he imagines that go... John Clare The Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he spea... John Clare William Shakespeare The Sonnets Print : Book1800-1849 'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he spea... John Clare Thomas Chatterton 'Poems of Chatterton' Print : Book1800-1849 'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot. John Clare Moore's Almanack Print : Pamphlet, almanack1800-1849 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ... John Clare William Collins Collins 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ... Print : Book1800-1849 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading them [...] I find in the same Vol Odes by a poet of ... John Clare John Ogilvie 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various ... Print : Book1800-1849 till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscious poem to our saviour very overstrained....'. John Clare 'the Song Solomon' Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'Paradise Lost and 'regaind' "'Comus' & 'Allegro' & 'P... John Clare John Milton Print : Book1800-1849 Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consider Burns very inferior [.] John Clare Thomas Gray Letters Unknown 1800-1849 'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making in half filld pages & fine paper' John Clare The Human Heart Print : Book1800-1849 'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his... Charles Campbell [travels] Print : Book1800-1849 'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his... Charles Campbell [history] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon' John Clare Josiah Conder The Star in the East Print : Book1800-1849 'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few pennies for a subscription library, where he read his... Charles Campbell [English classics] Print : Book1800-1849 'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol]. John Clare John Hamilton Reynolds The Garden of Florence Print : Book1800-1849 'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love' John Clare Epistle of St John Print : Book1800-1849 'this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...]. John Clare [playbill] Print : Handbill, playbill1800-1849 'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".' Joseph Mayett John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".' Joseph Mayett The Two Covenants Print : Book1800-1849 'Proselytised by a follower of the mystic Joanna Southcott, he read some of his propaganda but found "Some things that did not Correspond with the bible and also that it ... Joseph Mayett follower of Joanna Southcott Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispensations of providence... those kinds of books were o... Joseph Mayett Hannah More The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain Print : Book1800-1849 'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispensations of providence... those kinds of books were o... Joseph Mayett The Farmer's Fireside Print : Book1800-1849 'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all... Joseph Mayett William Cobbett Print : Book1800-1849 'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all... Joseph Mayett Richard Carlile Print : Book1800-1849 'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all... Joseph Mayett T.J. Wooler Print : Book1800-1849 'Sufferings of the post-horse... from Bloomfields 'the Farmers Boy'...Poplar 7th May 1832. T.W.M. T.W.M. Robert Bloomfield The Farmers Boy Unknown 1800-1849 Complete transcript of Cowper's poem. Anon William Cowper The Negro's complaint Unknown 1800-1849 'Evening [transcription of poem] James Montgomery. Weedon Nov 11th 1836. James Montgomery Evening Unknown 1800-1849 From the 'West Indies' a Poem by Montgomery.Part 2 Page 22 'In These romantic regions[...] From the same, Part 3 'There is a land[...] From the Same part 3. Page 35 'And ... John Warburton James Montgomery The West Indies Unknown 1800-1849 Transcription of poem as 'The Song of Music'. 'Moore'. Mary Groom Thomas Moore The Song Of Music Unknown 1800-1849 'The Fickleness of Love'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]. Mary Groom Thomas Moore 'The Fickleness of Love' Unknown 1800-1849 'A Reflection at Sea'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]. Mary Groom Thomas Moore A Reflection at Sea Unknown 1800-1849 'Weep not for Those'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]. Mary Groom Thomas Moore Weep Not for Those Unknown 1800-1849 'Stanzas'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]'Go, let me weep there's bliss in tears /...'. Mary Groom Thomas Moore Stanzas Unknown 1800-1849 'Perpetual Adoration'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem] Mary Groom Thomas Moore Perpetual Adoration Unknown 1800-1849 'The Inspiartion of Love'. 'Moore'. Mary Groom Thomas Moore The Inspiration of Love Unknown 1800-1849 'The Meeting of the Waters'. 'Moore'. Mary Groom Thomas Moore The Meeting of the Waters Unknown 1800-1849 'The Tear / Moore' [transcription of text]. Mary Groom Thomas Moore The Tear Unknown 1800-1849 'The Wintery smile of Sorrow / Moore' [transcription of text]. Mary Groom Thomas Moore The Wintery Smile of Sorrow Unknown 1800-1849 'the infinity of god a Russian fragment translated by Mr Bowring' followed by transcript of text '-yes as a drop of water in the sea /..' Mary Groom John Bowring The Infinity Of God Unknown 1800-1849 transcription of the poem headed 'the progress of poesy./ thos. gray' Mary Groom Thomas Gray The Progress of Poesy Unknown 1800-1849 transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell' Mary Groom Thomas Campbell Hohenlinden Unknown 1800-1849 transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell' Mary Groom Thomas Campbell The dirge of wallace Unknown 1800-1849 transcript of the poem headed 'to mary' Mary Groom Bernard Barton To Mary Unknown 1800-1849 transcript of the poem headed 'winter / bernard barton' Mary Groom Bernard Barton Winter Unknown 1800-1849 transcript of the poem headed 'the joy / addressed to a young friend / by bernard barton' Mary Groom Bernard Barton The Joy /addressed to a young friend Unknown 1800-1849 'death scene in gertrude of wyoming/ campbell'; there is also a footnote that gives the context of the scene in the tale. Mary Groom Thomas Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale Unknown 1800-1849 'friendship, love & truth / montgomery' Mary Groom James Montgomery Friendship, love and truth Unknown 1800-1849 'stanzas. addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child. / montgomery' Mary Groom James Montgomery Stanzas, Addressed to a friend on the birth of his... Unknown 1800-1849 'poet's address to twilight / montgomery' Mary Groom James Montgomery Poet's address to twilight Unknown 1800-1849 'lucy / wordsworth she dwelt in the untrodden ways,beside the springs of dove...' Transcribes text but with significant errors when compared to wordsworth's original. The... Mary Groom William Wordsworth Song: she dwelt among th' untrodden ways Unknown 1800-1849 'the sailor / rogers' Mary Groom Samuel Rogers The Sailor Unknown 1800-1849 'An Italian Song / Rogers' [transcription of poem] Mary Groom Samuel Rogers An Italian Song Unknown 1800-1849 'coeurde lion at the bier of his father / new monthly magazine' [includes prose note] [transcription of poem] Mary Groom Felicia Dorothea Hemans Coeur De Lion At The Bier Of His Father Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'lines on the death of a general officer in the east indies / ladies monthly museum' 'the muffled drums dull moan /... [transcription of poem] Mary Groom anon Lines On The Death Of A General Officer In The Eas... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Transcription of part of text: 'From Professor Gellerts Moral Lessons / 'Faith in God, the sublime thought...' B.A.T. Herbert Professor Gellert The Life of Professor Gellert; with a course of ..... Unknown 1800-1849 Transcription of Cowper's poem and ''By W. Cowper'. B.A.T. Herbert William Cowper My Father! When I learned that thou was Dead Unknown 1800-1849 'the emerald ring' 'it is agem which [...]' [transcribes poem] 'le landon'. Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Laetitia Elizabeth Landon The Emerald Ring Unknown 1800-1849 'happiness is a very common plant...' 'e. smith's fragments' 'greenock' Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Miss Elizabeth Smith Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady Unknown 1800-1849 'the christain life may be compared...' 'e. smith's fragments'. followed by extract ascribed to 'hannah more' 'those who are rendered unhappy by frivolous troubles seek ... Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Miss Elizabeth Smith Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady Unknown 1800-1849 'the cause of all sin...' 'e.smith's fragments'. signed 'e.d.' Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Miss Elizabeth Smith Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady Unknown 1800-1849 ''extract from the course of time' transcribes from 'true happiness had no localities...' to 'where happiness descending, sat and smiled.' signed 'aunt a.' 'quarry bank j... Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Robert Pollok The course of time Unknown 1800-1849 'far less shall earth now hastening to decay...' 'world before the flood' 'isle of man June 15th 31'. Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan James Montgomery The world before the flood; a poem in ten cantos Unknown 1800-1849 'stanzas for music by the ettrick shepherd' [transcribes 2 stanzas] 'my sweet little...' Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan James Hogg Stanzas for music Unknown 1800-1849 'filled with profound reverence...' 'blair vii p.375' and 'since the time that heaven began...' 'blair's ser vii p.26' Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Hugh Blair Sermons Unknown 1800-1849 [illustration of a Deer, followed by prose on hunting ascribed to] 'Library of Entertaining Knowledge' [part of album with begining of transcript missing]. E.E.R. Library of Entertaining Knowledge Unknown 1800-1849 'Highland Hospitality' 'I once resolved to leave London for a little time [...]' 'Hermit in London'. E.E.R. Felix MacDonogh The Hermit in London; or Sketches in English Manne Print : Book1800-1849 'To Time' 'In Fancy's eye, what an extended span / ...' 'Clare' E.E.R. John Clare 'Address to Time' from The Village Minstrel Print : Book1800-1849 'On Taste' 'Taste is from Heaven /...' E.E.R. John Clare 'On Taste' from The Village Minstrel, Volume II. Print : Book1800-1849 'On Taste' 'Taste is from Heaven /...' E.E.R. John Clare 'Sorrows for a Friend' from The Village Minstrel, Print : Book1800-1849 'Life' 'Life thou art misery, or as such to me...' E.E.R. John Clare 'Life' from The Village Minstrel, Volume II. Print : Book1800-1849 'Sorrows for a Friend' 'O ye brown old oaks that spread the silent wood...' 'Clare' E.E.R. John Clare 'Sorrows for a Friend' from The Village Minstrel, Print : Book1800-1849 'The Regatta' [transcribes poem]'Ho! Hearty steeple chasers...' 'Blackwood's Mag 1830' E.E.R. The Regatta Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Pindar unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Callimachus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Apollonius Rhodius unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Quintus Calaber unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Theocritus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Herodotus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Thucydides unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Xenophon unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Plato unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Aristotle Politics Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Aristotle Organon Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Plutarch Lives Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Lucian unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Athenaeus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Plautus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Plautus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Aeschylus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Sophocles unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Pindar unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Theocritus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Terence unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Lucretius unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Catullus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Albius Tibullus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Sextus Propertius unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Lucan unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Silius Italicus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Velleius Paterculus unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Sallust unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Caesar unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Cicero unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide... Thomas Babington Macaulay Aristophanes unknown Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the character. Energy, acuteness, tyranny, and audacity i... Thomas Babington Macaulay Monk Biography of Richard Bentley Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 ' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. It was my favourite at College. There is a rich pro... Thomas Babington Macaulay Theocritus Seventh Idyll Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, and talk with such fanatical warmth about his 'great... Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben Jonson The Alchemist Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, into a play. Catiline is a very middling play. The c... Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben Jonson Catiline Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is very extravagant and foolish. It is the blemish of a p... Thomas Babington Macaulay Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, far more variety, more sentiment, more thought. But ... Thomas Babington Macaulay Horace Satires Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 [Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.' Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Louis Courier Le Simple Discours Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, with the punkah swinging overhead, with as much enjoyme... Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Louis Courier Le Simple Discours Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends Album' 'Bernard Barton' 'The Warrior is[pleased?] when the war is won ....' Mary Dugdale Bernard Barton 'Lines written in the first leaf of a friends Albu Unknown