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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
 
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1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Michel de Montaigne Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "L'escholle de...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,...Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Filles", which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss ...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what doth me no wrong to read for information sake (but it d...Samuel Pepys Michel MillotL'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames,...Print: Book
1800-1849'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays'Percy Bysshe Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Montaigne'Percy Bysshe Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'Percy Bysshe Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne'Percy Bysshe Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'Mary Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'Mary Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'Mary Shelley Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.Charlotte Bury Michel de MontaigneEssaisPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday...Charles B.M. Warren Michel Eyquem (de) MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Michel Eyquem de MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am alone in the house, and so I allowed myself, at dinner, the first light reading I have indulged in since my return in the shape of some Montaigne.'Robert Louis Stevenson Michel Eyquem de MontaigneLes EssaisPrint: Book
1850-1899'As Montaigne says, talking of something quite different:"Pour se laisser tomber a plomb, et de si haut, il faut que se soit entre les bras d'une affection solide, vigour...Robert Louis Stevenson Michel Eyquem de MontaigneLes Essais, Livre III, Ch XII, De la physionomiePrint: Book


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