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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Took Gibbon to the library. I have not had time to read more than one chapter being engaged with Bowyers. I can procure it another time.'Joseph Hunter Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening S[helley] C[lary] and H[ogg] sleep - read Gibbon'Mary Godwin Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Gibbon alloud to me'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.Mary Godwin Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Mary Godwin Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics]Mary Godwin Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the fines...Mary Godwin Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Empe...Mary Godwin Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'I do not know in the annals of history & barbarity any character which I so much abhor as that of the va...Robert Southey Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...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 SwiftThe history of the four last years of the QueenPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Sismondi's French History and I am glad to find it is very interesting and pleasant reading...'Fanny Allen J.C.L. de SismondiThe History of the FrenchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann JahnThe History of the Hebrew CommonwealthPrint: Book
1850-1899'I had to confess [to his recently returned elder brother] that I had not read a line of his [Darwin's] work, that with the exception of Draper's "History of Civili...William Henry Hudson John William DraperThe History of the Intellectual Development of Eur...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Flavius JosephusThe History of the Jewish WarsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John StrypeThe History of the Life and Acts of the most Rever...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1765:] 'What an agreeable fellow was that Philip of Macedon! We are reading his history; but the wise and elegant At...Catherine Talbot and familyThomas LelandThe History of the Life and Reign of Philip, King ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Began to read as my Sunday Reading Benson's "Life of Christ".'Joseph Hunter George BensonThe History of the Life of Jesus ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George LytteltonThe History of the Life of King Henry the SecondPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Joseph BeringtonThe History of the Lives of Abeillard and Heloisa ...


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