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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Proverbs)Print: Book
1850-1899'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four e...John Ruskin Horace-Bénédicte de SaussureVoyage dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four e...John Ruskin Andrea AlciatiEmblemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee'John Ruskin Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
1850-1899'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".'John Ruskin [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle "French Revolution") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleFrench RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two girls burnt together in ball dress.'John Ruskin Blanche RooseveltLife and Reminiscences of Gustave DorePrint: Book
1850-1899'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Peter)Print: Book
1850-1899'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'John Ruskin [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".'John Ruskin William ShakespeareAs you like itPrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.' John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well appreciate - and I found myself marking the whole bo...Oscar Wilde Elzabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the sweet comeliness of his charactery'.Oscar Wilde John KeatsSonnet in BlueManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Wilde later said that it was his mother who inspired him to write verse [....] When his poems first appeared in magazines she compiled a scrapbook of them, and frequentl...Speranza Wilde Oscar WildeMagdalen WalksUnknown
1850-1899'One of the "golden books" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel "Sidonia the Sorceress". Wilde's mother, who was an accomplished translator o...Oscar Wilde J.W. MeinholdSidonia the SorceressPrint: Book


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