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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Diary entry, 17 August 1831: “Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus Clouds - & imitation of yesterday thunderstorm; and fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!”Elizabeth Barrett Browning CebesTablet of CebesPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, 29 August 1831 "I have been reading Dawes’s Miscellanea Critica ^all the morning and writing some of his emendations in the margin of my Callimachus. They...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Richard DawesMiscellanea CriticaPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, April 17, 1832: "Read the two last Olympic odes today, - except a few lines of the last but one. The very last, to the Graces, is most harmonious & beaut...Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarOlympian OdesPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, April 19, 1832: "Wrote to Mr. Boyd about the parallel passage in Synesius & Anacreon, - & nearly went thro’ the whole of the first & Second pythian odes....Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst and second Pythian odesPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, April 6, 1832: "I have been reading Pindar’s 9th Olympiad, & must go back to it. Pindar’s subjects are of little interest to my mind"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarNinth Olympian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, August 17, 1831: "Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus. Clouds -& imitation of yesterday's thunderstorm; and fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Theophrastus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 12, 1831: "Finished the Iphigenia in Tauris –not worth re-reading! –and began the Hippolytus"Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesHippolytusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 12, 1831: Finished the Iphigenia in Tauris – not worth re-reading! – and began the Hippolytus.Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesIphigenia in TaurisPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 19, 1831: The waking was not agreeable. But I read myself into a good humour. Hippolytus is not one of Euripides’s best plays, tho’ it is very sup...Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesHippolytusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 2, 1831: "Dealing with Euripides. The Iphigenia in Tauris. Very inferior to the Iph: in Aulide, as far as I can read".Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesIphigenia in TaurisPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, January 21, 1832: "Read the 7th Olympic ode – about Agesias, & Rhodes"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarSeventh Olympian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 15, 1831: "The Cliffes brought me The Seven Chiefs which Mrs. Best had ordered from Worcester at my request; and I have been reading over again what...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem contra ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 16, 1831: "I heard Stormy & Georgie read Homer & Xenophon – as usual, – tho’ I have not yet commemorated them here -& I prepared a part of the first...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 21, 1831: "Well – but we began to read the Seven Chiefs out of Blomfield’s edition; & were very happy."Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 24, 1831: "Afterwards we returned to Mr. Boyd’s own room, & read Aeschylus again. We read the scene after the first chorus of the Seven Chief, & bot...Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 25, 1831: "Read Aeschylus – the part I read yesterday, -& wrote down all that I cd. remember of Mr. Boyd’s saying upon it."Elizabeth Barrett Browning AeschylusSeptem Apud ThebasPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 27, 1831: "I read Pindar's first Olympic today -& thought of tomorrow – tomorrow’s fatal decisive letter."Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst Olympian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, March 1, 1832: "In the evening I read a part of Pindar’s 8th Olympic. And de Genlis’s story of Delphine in the Tales of the castle, which I like because ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarEighth Olympian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. August 4th, 1831: "After nearly 3 quarters of an hour, Mrs. Boyd advised me to go in to him. I went. Heard him repeat some passages from Aeschylus, which h...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849Diary entry. August 8th, 1831: "I have written a letter to Papa, read the first vol: of the Last man, which Mrs. Martin has sent me at last —& read the whole of the 8th...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Homer[unknown]Unknown


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