√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | William Blake, on margin of his copy of Johann Lavater, Aphorisms: "'I hop no one will call what I have written cavill... | William Blake | Johann Lavater | Aphorisms | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Francis Bacon, Essays: "'Villain! Did Christ seek the Praise of the Rulers?'" | William Blake | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | Edmund Burke | A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | Francis Bacon | The Advancement of Learning | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | Sir Joshua Reynolds | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [John Locke] "says it [is the] same faculty that invents judges". | William Blake | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That th... | William Blake | John Milton | Paradise Lost, vii, 29-30 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That th... | William Blake | | Numbers 24:13 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "I name Moses, Solomon, Esop, Homer, Plato". [Blake is referring to a selection of influential authors/characters from... | William Blake | | Bible | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | "What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining and Instructive... | William Blake | Homer | unknown | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | "Consider what Lord Bacon says: 'Sense sends over to Imagination before Reason have judged...See Advancement of Learni... | William Blake | Francis Bacon | Advancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in/childhood & shew'd me his face./Ezra came with Isaiah the Proph... | William Blake | John Milton | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "I shall not be able to avail myself of the assistance of Bruno's fairies." [Reference to writings of Giordano Bruno 1... | William Blake | Giordano Bruno | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "Blake and I read every Evening that copy of the Iliad which your namesake of St Paul's was so good as to send me, com... | William Blake | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Bacon & Newton would prescribe ways of making the world heavier to me, & Pitt would prescribe distress for a Medical ... | William Blake | Francis Bacon | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "Perhaps Picturesque is somewhat synonymous to the word Taste, which we should think improperly applied to Homer & Mil... | William Blake | William Gilpin | 3 Essays on Picturesque Beauty | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I go on Merrily with my Greek & Latin; am very sorry that I did not begin to learn languages early in life as I find ... | William Blake | | The New Testament | Print: Book |