| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully tr... | Thomas Green | Sir William Temple | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....' | Thomas Green | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medi... | Thomas Green | William Roscoe | The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read, after a long interval, with much delight, the first two Books of Caesar's "Commentaries"....' | Thomas Green | Julius Caesar | Commentaries | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began, with a view of comparing notes, Macchiavel's "Historie Fiorentino"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Pursued Boswell's "life of Johnson"....' | Thomas Green | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Hawkesworth's "Life of Swift"....' | Thomas Green | John Hawkesworth | Life of Swift [in Works of Swift?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Sheridan's "Life of Swift"....' | Thomas Green | Thomas Sheridan | Life of Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Jortin's "Life of Erasmus"....' | Thomas Green | John Jortin | Life of Erasmus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...' | Thomas Green | Livy | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Bp. Watson's "Apology for the Bible", in reply to Paine....' | Thomas Green | Richard Watson | Apology for the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Burke's "Letters on a Regicide Peace"...' | Thomas Green | Edmund Burke | Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read with interest and curiosity, Hurd's "Life of Warburton"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Life of Warburton [in Warburton, Works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked into Gibbon's "Miscellaneous Works"...' | Thomas Green | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of Charles V. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discourses on Livy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...' | Thomas Green | William Robertson | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over, by a cursory perusal, Beattie's "Essay on Truth"...' | Thomas Green | James Beattie | An essay on the nature and immutability of truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the "Castle of Otranto", which grievously disappointed my expectations...' | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Malone's "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Ireland's Shakesperian Papers"; a learned and decisive piece o... | Thomas Green | Edmond Malone | An inquiry into the authenticity of certain papers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Italian"...' | Thomas Green | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Gibbon's "Memoirs of himself"--an exquisite morceau of literature...' | Thomas Green | Edward Gibbon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Swift's "Four last Years of Queen Anne"; a clear, connected detail of facts, exhibited with exquisite art...' | Thomas Green | Jonathan Swift | The history of the four last years of the Queen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...' | Thomas Green | Edmund Burke | A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...' | Thomas Green | Adam Smith | Essays on philosophical subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read over Beattie's "Elements of Moral Science"--a miserable work...' | Thomas Green | James Beattie | Elements of moral science | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over the first Vol. of the "Tatlers"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Steele | The Tatler | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation": a critical disquisition of considerable depth and skill...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Discourse concerning Imitation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the "1st Epistle of Horace", Lib. 2 (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus) with the aid of Dacier's notes, and Hur... | Thomas Green | Horace | Epistola ad Augustum, annotated by Richard Hurd | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Hurd's "Commentary on Horace's Art of Poetry"...' | Thomas Green | Horace | Art of Poetry, annotated by Richard Hurd, | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...' | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | The Mysterious Mother | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...' | Thomas Green | Thomas James Mathias | Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Longinus on the Sublime; to which I had been led, by Gibbon's critique in his "Extraits Raisonnes"...' | Thomas Green | Longinus | On the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 1st Book of Quinctilian "De Institutione Oratoria"...' | Thomas Green | Quintilian | Institutes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over the "Beggar's Opera". The slang of low iniquity, is happily given in this strange drama...' | Thomas Green | John Gay | Beggar's Opera | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Brown's "Essays on Satire", prefixed to Pope's "Moral Poems"; in which the nature and end of Satire is ha... | Thomas Green | John Brown | An essay on satire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I a... | Thomas Green | Anonymous | Arabian Nights Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began, and read the first section of, Wollaston's "Religion of Nature"...' | Thomas Green | William Wollaston | Religion of Nature delineated | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of po... | Thomas Green | William Gifford | The Baviad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Barrington's "Observations on the Ancient Statutes"; a well conceived and elaborate work...' | Thomas Green | Daines Barrington | Observations on the Ancient Statutes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Warton's "Life of Pope" prefixed to his edition of Pope's "Works"; and compared Wakefield's "Preface" to his... | Thomas Green | Joseph Warton | Life of Pope, in Works, | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over some of Gray's Poems. I am almost tempted to agree in Johnson's character of these compositions...' | Thomas Green | Thomas Gray | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read several of Dryden's original Poems. The sudden transition from his "Funeral Lines on Oliver Cromwell", to his "... | Thomas Green | John Dryden | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...' | Thomas Green | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Garth's "Dispensary"; a lively and pleasing poem, sparkling with considerable wit, but defrauded of its just fam... | Thomas Green | Samuel Garth | The Dispensary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Memoirs of Scriblerus"; an exquisite piece of satire, of which the separate parts of Swift, Pope, and A... | Thomas Green | Alexander Pope | Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Macfarlane's "History of George III.": a strange amalgama of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded i... | Thomas Green | Robert Macfarlane | History of George III | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but w... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but wa... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...' | Thomas Green | William Roscoe | Life of Lorenzo de Medici | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...' | Thomas Green | George Campbell | The Philosophy of Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked into Young's "Night Thoughts": debased throughout with many poor and puerile conceits...' | Thomas Green | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of th... | Thomas Green | Anthony Hamilton | Memoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Colley Cibber's "Life"; and was much delighted with his minute yet masterly account of the principal actors who... | Thomas Green | Colley Cibber | Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Hurd's "Dialogue" between Cowley and Sprat, on Retirement...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Moral and political dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over King's "Origin of Evil"...' | Thomas Green | William King | De origine mali | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...' | Thomas Green | William Russell | The History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principle... | Thomas Green | John Locke | Essay concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, ... | Thomas Green | Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan | The History of Nourjahad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Bertrand De Moleville's "Memoirs of the Last Year of the Reign of Louis the 16th". They contain much curiou... | Thomas Green | Bertrand de Moleville | Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"; and read the two introductory sections, containing a master... | Thomas Green | Sir John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Haslam on Insanity....' | Thomas Green | John Haslam | Observations on Insanity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Godwin's "Memoirs of Mrs. Woolstonecraft"; which strikingly evince that love, even in a modern philosophe... | Thomas Green | William Godwin | Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Shaftesbury's "Enquiry concerning Virtue". His ideas are not very distinctly state; but he seems, to place Virt... | Thomas Green | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Inquiry concerning Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses", with an eye to a peculiar and distinguishing doctrine which runs through ... | Thomas Green | Joshua Reynolds | Seven Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...' | Thomas Green | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...' | Thomas Green | Bernard Mandeville | Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dipped into Bacon's "Essays"; so pregnant with just, original, and striking observations on every topic which is touc... | Thomas Green | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Brown's "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times". The 2d Vol. is merely a supplementary comment on... | Thomas Green | John Brown | An estimate of the manners and principles of the times | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over "Serious Reflections by a rational Christian", from 1788 to 1798 written by the Duke of G-...' | Thomas Green | Augustus Henry Fitzroy | The serious reflections of a rational Christian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Lord Chesterfield's "Characters": all of which are neatly, and some very finely, drawn...' | Thomas Green | Philip Dormer Stanhope | Characters of eminent personages of his own time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the 1st Volume and Part of "Du Bos sur la Poesie et Peinture"...' | Thomas Green | Jean-Baptiste Dubos | Critical reflections on poetry, painting and music | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Burke's "Vindication of Natural Society". Except in parts (as in the opening and ending) I cannot think that th... | Thomas Green | Edmund Burke | Vindication of Natural Society | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical dec... | Thomas Green | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with... | Thomas Green | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Burke's Disquisition prefixed to his "Sublime and Beautiful"...' | Thomas Green | Edmund Burke | A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...' | Thomas Green | Montesquieu | De l?esprit des loix | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked into Mitford's "History of Greece". The Athenian Democracy imparts no sort of relish for that sort of governm... | Thomas Green | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first five chapters of Reid's "Enquiry into the Human Mind": in which he examines the senses of Smell, Tast... | Thomas Green | Thomas Reid | An inquiry into the human mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the Introduction to Berkeley's "Principles of Human Knowledge", in which he really seems to be serious and in ea... | Thomas Green | George Berkeley | A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Voltaire's "Siecle de Louis 14me.": a most entertaining and instructive work...' | Thomas Green | Voltaire | Essay sur l?histoire du siecle de Louis XIV | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Athenian Letters"...' | Thomas Green | Philip Yorke | Athenian Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Travels of Anacharsis". This work is ably executed, and must have cost prodigious pains; but it still ... | Thomas Green | J. J. Barth?lemy | Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measur... | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the third | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...' | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and su... | Thomas Green | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...' | Thomas Green | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Natio... | Thomas Green | Sir James Mackintosh | A discourse on the study of the law of nature, and nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's ... | Thomas Green | Torquato Tasso | Jerusalem Delivered | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over a Volume of "Lettres Choisies de Mesdames Sevigne et Maintenon"...' | Thomas Green | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise S?vign | Lettres choisies de Mesdames de Sevign? et de Main | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his ... | Thomas Green | Thomas Burnet | The theory of the earth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read with much interest, in a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, an "Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind", by J.... | Thomas Green | James Ussher | An introduction to the theory of the human mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, an... | Thomas Green | Sir James Mackintosh | Vindiciae Gallicae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Soame Jenyns' "Origin of Evil". His grand solution of the introduction of evil is, that it could not have been ... | Thomas Green | Soame Jenyns | A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Gibbon's "Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature": an ostentatious performance...' | Thomas Green | Edward Gibbon | Essai sur l??tude de la litt?rature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Lord Bacon's Letters, edited by Birch. It is grievous to see this great man, who appears from various passa... | Thomas Green | Francis Bacon | Letters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Francis Bacon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...' | Thomas Green | Edward Hooker | Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Hurd's "Lectures on the Prophecies"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | An introduction to the study of the prophecies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Bishop Shipley's Works; to the reading of which I had been powerfully recommended by M-h. A vein of good se... | Thomas Green | Jonathan Shipley | The works of the Right Reverend Jonathan Shipley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first Vol. of Hurd's "Sermons at Lincoln's-Inn"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Sermons preached at Lincoln?s-Inn | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...'
| Thomas Green | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Cicero "De Senectute": a most exquisite and finished disquisition...' | Thomas Green | Cicero | De Senectute | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its ... | Thomas Green | Thomas May | The history of the Parliament of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Dryden's Dedication to his "Translations of Juvenal's Satires":--a stranger, rambling composition...' | Thomas Green | John Dryden | The satires of Juvenalis, translated into English | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Richardson's "Philosophical Analysis" of some of Shakespear's Characters. The design is happy, and, upon the wh... | Thomas Green | William Richardson | A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's characters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Cambridge's "Scribleriad". The mock heroic is well sustained throughout; but the Poem is deficient in broad hum... | Thomas Green | Richard Owen Cambridge | The scribleriad: an heroic poem in six books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the perusal of Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric". The praise of ingenuity, of a judgment in general correct, a... | Thomas Green | Hugh Blair | Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Jackson's (of Exeter) "Four Ages". He inverts the usual order; and promises halycon days, from the improvement o... | Thomas Green | William Jackson of Exeter | The four ages; together with essays on various subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked through the 3d. Book of Warburton's "Divine Legation". It is impossible to pursue this eccentric Genius stead... | Thomas Green | William Warburton | The divine legation of Moses demonstrated | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Balguy's "Discourses". They are all masterly; but the first four, and the 8th, tower above the rest in excellen... | Thomas Green | Thomas Balguy | Discourses on various subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 1st Vol. of Sully's "Memoirs". They open a scene of manners, which, to modern conception, appears perfectly... | Thomas Green | Pierre Mathurin | The memoirs of the Duke of Sully | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over the 1st and 2d Parts of Watts' "Logic"...' | Thomas Green | Isaac Watts | Logic, or the right use of reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the First of Alison's "Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste". Taste, he defines, That faculty by wh... | Thomas Green | Archibald Alison | Essays on the nature and principles of taste | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over the Introduction to Pemberton's "View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy". He affirms (sec. 2.) that it is... | Thomas Green | Henry Pemberton | A view of Sir Isaac Newton?s philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibitin... | Thomas Green | John Moore | Zeluco. Various views of human nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Pope's five "Ethic Epistles" or "Moral Essays". There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to m... | Thomas Green | Alexander Pope | Moral Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Moore's "Edward". The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...' | Thomas Green | John Moore | Edward. Various views of human nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Whitehurst's "Theory of the Earth". His hypothesis is, That our globe was originally a confused mass of ... | Thomas Green | John Whitehurst | An inquiry into the original state and formation of the earth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 1st Part of Price's "Essay on the Picturesque"...' | Thomas Green | Uvedale Price | An essay on the picturesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Gilpin's Two Essay[s]; on Picturesque Beauty, and Picturesque Travel...' | Thomas Green | William Gilpin | Three Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...' | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in... | Thomas Green | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at th... | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than ... | Thomas Green | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's "Lectures in Divinity". His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first: b... | Thomas Green | John Hey | Lectures in divinity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...' | Thomas Green | Robert Bloomfield | The farmer?s boy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Pearson's "Remarks on the Theory of Morals"...' | Thomas Green | Edward Pearson | Remarks on the Theory of Morals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the "Aeneid". Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sub... | Thomas Green | Virgil | Aenied | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Godwin's "St. Leon". In the Preface, he explicitly abjures the doctrine of extinguishing the private affections... | Thomas Green | William Godwin | St Leon, a tale of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's "Essays"...' | Thomas Green | James Gregory | Philosophical and literary essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...' | Thomas Green | Johann David Michaelis | Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Frend's "Animadversions" on Prettyman's Theology:--more temperate and chastised than I expected...' | Thomas Green | William Frend | Animadversions on the elements of Christian theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Porson's "Letters to Travis", on the disputed passage in John...' | Thomas Green | Richard Porson | Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished a perusal of Warton's "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope"...' | Thomas Green | Joseph Warton | Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Marsh's "Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France"...' | Thomas Green | Herbert Marsh | The history of the politicks of Great Britain and France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read again, and with more attention, Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation"...' | Thomas Green | Richard Hurd | Discourse concerning Imitation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Gildon's "Essay", prefixed to Shakespear's poems, in which he largely discuses Dramatic Poetry...' | Thomas Green | Charles Gildon | "An Essay" in Works of Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Cicero's "Buruts"...' | Thomas Green | Cicero | Brutus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Prettyman's "Theology". The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome...' | Thomas Green | George Pretyman | Elements of Christian theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, w... | Thomas Green | Edmond Malone | Critical and Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Daines Barrington's curious "Observations on the Notes of Birds"...' | Thomas Green | Daines Barrington | The history of singing birds | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...' | Thomas Green | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Kirkman's "Life of Macklin"...' | Thomas Green | James Thomas Kirkman | Memoirs of the life of Charles Macklin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...' | Thomas Green | John Dryden | Prose Works, ed. Malone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Mrs. Radcliffe's "Tour to the Lakes". Much might be expected from this Lady's well known powers of description,... | Thomas Green | Ann Radcliffe | A journey made in the summer of 1794 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the two first Volumes of Soame Jenyns "Works", edited by Cole...' | Thomas Green | Soame Jenyns | The works of Soame Jenyns, Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...' | Thomas Green | James Boswell | The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began Herder's "Outlines of the Philosophy of the History of Man", of which I had heard high praise;--but was soon ob... | Thomas Green | Johann Goffried Herder | Outlines of a philosophy of the history of man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Glanced over Pye's "Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics"...' | Thomas Green | Henry James Pye | A Commentary illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton", on his late Edition of Milton?... | Thomas Green | Samuel Darby | A letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton, on his late edition of Milton's Juvenile Poems | Print: Book |