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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'When William Lovett arrived in London [from Newlyn, in the 1820s] he possessed a Cornish accent but no useful knowledge, and immediately set about remedying these twin d...William Lovett Lindley MurrayGrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs C read me part of Murray's Power of religion.'[Mrs] Cole Lindley MurrayPower of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules of punctuation, I applied myself to the study of Lin...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Lindley MurrayEnglish grammarPrint: Book
1900-1945Detailed notes on the front flyleaf and half-title page, and extensive marginalia in pencil in French throughout.Vernon Lee Lionel DauriacEssai sur l'esprit musicalPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these days he was reading two books with enjoyment: Lionel Trilling's Matthew Arnold and Werner Jaeger's Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, which had just arri...John Buchan Lionel TrillingMatthew ArnoldPrint: Book
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell Lionel James TrotterThe Life of John Nicholson: soldier and administra...Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Rome, 3 April 1821: 'I have got a charming little [italics]savant[end italics], who reads with me two or three times a week [...] I have be...Mary Berry Livy unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Cic...Gabriel Harvey Livy unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'Gabriel Harvey Livy WorksPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'Gabriel Harvey Livy WorksPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'Gabriel Harvey Livy WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, from Macaulay's Bipontine edition in the winter of 1910...George Otto Trevelyan Livy Historiorum libriPrint: Book
1800-1849'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [...] I was exactly in the situation of the consul, Fla...Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy (Titus Livius) History of Rome Book XIIIPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Llewelyn Powys[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Secretary reported that he had found "Ebony & Ivory" to be an unsuitable book to go round the club & had procured The Incredible Journey (the book to secure next hig...Howard R. Smith Llewelyn PowysEbony and IvoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley and Clara begin Orlando Furioso'.Percy Shelley and Claire ClairmontLodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley finishes the 3d canto of Ariosto'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Lodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.Percy Shelley and Claire ClairmontLodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
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1600-1699		'Lodovico Domenichi's "Facetie, motti, et burle" (1571) [an Italian collection of short miscellaneous observations and anecdotes] [...] stimulated Harvey to jot down [in ...Gabriel Harvey Lodovico DomenichiFacetie, motti, et burlePrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia'Mary Shelley Lodovico Antonio MuratoriDissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane, gia com...Print: Book


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