Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Ramsay

 

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1700-1799
1800-1849
'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro...Wully Carruthers Alan RamsayThe Gentle ShepherdPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael RamsayTravels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay['Cyrus'] OR Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper.Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12.Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1800-1849I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to...John Horrocks Ainsworth Allan RamsayThe Gentle ShepherdPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...Janet Hamilton Allan Ramsay[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799[We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive re...Anna Larpent Ramsaya dialogue on tastePrint: Book
1800-1849'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu...Thomas Carter David RamsayHistory of the American Revolution, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of ...James Dawson Burn Chevalier RamsayLife of CyrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...Mountstuart Elphinstone [David] RamsayRevolution of South Carolina [The history of the]Print: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec...Adam Smith Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written...James Boswell Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I...Robert Louis Stevenson Allan RamsayThe Gentle Shepherd Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]'Robert Louis Stevenson Allan Ramsayunknown Print: Book
1700-1799'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got...James Hogg Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy Print: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott quotes four lines from 'My Jo Janet' in Allan Ramsay's 'Tea-Table Miscellany'.Walter Scott Allan RamsayTea-Table Miscellany: My Jo JanetUnknown

 

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