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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I should advise you to get the 2/6 volume containing Milton's minor poems, which I am now reading.... I am at "Comus", which is an absolute dream of delight. I am sure...Clive Staples Lewis John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was passionately fond of poetry, being led to its study by accidentally meeting with Milton's minor poems, when about fourteen years of age. Though so young, I was i...John Leatherland John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1900-1945'I hope you are well, and are finding some solace in your duties. You must find it hard to console aliens in England. They probably love England, and now they are ali...Ivor Bertie Gurney John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945‘ [ … ] it was nice … to get the "Evening Standard" packed up with the rest [of the parcel]. I do adore newspapers in certain moods. For frivolling time away they are...Ivor Bertie Gurney John MiltonOde: On TimePrint: Book
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark John Milton[unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799"'Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France,' D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."Dorothy Wordsworth John MooreTravels in FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'"Blessings on his head said Sancho Panza who first invented sleep", But what shall we say of the character of the French which I lately saw in "Moor's France"...'Robert Sharp John MooreA View of Society and Manners in France, SwitzerlaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to endure it, shot himself' [there follows a long accou...Hester Lynch Thrale John MooreView of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland...Print: Book
1700-1799'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. Seward . . .'Frances Burney John MooreView of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MooreA Journal during a residence in France from August...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibiting the hideous effect of their unrestricted indulgenc...Thomas Green John MooreZeluco. Various views of human naturePrint: 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 MooreEdward. Various views of human naturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls -- Begin Edward by Dr Moore. [...] 'Saturday July 22nd. Finish Edward by Dr Moore.' Claire Clairmont John MooreEdward: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from ...Print: Book
1700-1799'He censured a writer of entertaining Travels for assuming a feigned character, saying, (in his sense of the word,) "He carries out one lye; we know not how many he bring...Samuel Johnson John Moore[travels]Print: Book
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1800-1849		H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a volume including poems by John Morfitt and Joseph West...Samuel Parr John Morfittpoems in poems including Lines on HattonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ev...Margaret Oliphant John MorleyLife of George EliotPrint: Book
1850-1899"Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to me good & dignified without being too much like a ser...Leslie Stephen John MorleyOn CompromisePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read Morley's second article on Education today'Robert Louis Stevenson John MorleyThe Struggle for National EducationPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another hand and crossed out] paper on Wm Morris.'Frederick Edminson John MorleyOliver CromwellPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very much interested in Morley's ''Life of Rousseau'' ... Morley does not gloss over any of his crimes or odiousness.'Emma Darwin John MorleyRousseauPrint: Book


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