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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Henry Thomas BuckleHistory of CivilisationPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde A.J. ButlerCompanion to DantePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Walter PaterMiscellaneous EssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1850-1899'Every morning, after I have cleaned my cell and polished my tins, I read a little of the Gospels, a dozen verses taken by chance anywhere. It is a delightful way of open...Oscar Wilde GospelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the Archibishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter, r...John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4: "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for h...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Proverbs)Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions about his tabernacle.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II. 1, etc, while in David's mouth indeed meant the Gen...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, by chance, not knowing it was the day on which they ...John Ruskin John Charles Ryle[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new course of Bible reading, with greater attention to th...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Genesis)Print: Book
1850-1899'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek worshippers: himself a mere bad imitation of the Ger...John Ruskin William Bell Scott[memoir David Scott]Print: Book
1850-1899'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.'John Ruskin St BedeAn Ecclesiastical History of the English PeoplePrint: Book
1850-1899'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in marginal reading.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at a poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, which I ha...John Ruskin [n/a]Christian YearPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Channing on Napoleon'John Ruskin W.E. ChanningRemarks on the Character of Napoleon BonapartePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "La dame aux cheveux gris" all the evening to my mother.'John Ruskin Henriette CabrieresLa dame aux cheveux grisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as English write foolish romances in quantities.'John Ruskin [unknown]Journal pour tousPrint: Unknown


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