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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] copied a set of extracts from Buchanan into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ... probably between mid-March and 10 June 1807.'William Wordsworth John Lanne BuchananTravels in the Western Hebrides, 1782 to 1790Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.Mary Shelley Edward Daniel ClarkeTravels in various countries of Europe, Asia and A...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Pliny and Clarkes travels - Shelley writes his poem [The Revolt of Islam] - reads Hist. of Fr. Rev. and Spencer aloud in the evening'.Mary Shelley Edward Daniel ClarkeTravels in various countries of Europe, Asia and A...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley Edward Daniel ClarkeTravels in various countries of Europe, Asia and A...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'Mary Shelley Edward Daniel ClarkeTravels in various countries of Europe, Asia and A...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'Mary Shelley Edward Daniel ClarkeTravels in various countries of Europe, Asia and A...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your second volume wherein I have retraced some of my old ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Edward Daniel ClarkeTravels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Gullivers Travels aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Jonathan SwiftTravels into several Remote Nations of the World. ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Jonathan SwiftTravels into several Remote Nations of the World. ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'Percy Bysshe Shelley Jonathan SwiftTravels into several Remote Nations of the World. ...Print: Book
1800-1849'On 19 April 1809 S[ara] H[utchinson] wrote to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank, "The nicest model of a churn I ever saw was in 'Barrow's account of the interior of Africa....Sara Hutchinson John BarrowTravels into the Interior of South AfricaPrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...John Marsh Carl Philipp MoritzTravels of a German through England in 1782Print: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...John Marsh Carl Philipp MoritzTravels of a German through England in 1782Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Travels of Anacharsis". This work is ably executed, and must have cost prodigious pains; but it still leaves us, as we must ever be left, extremely ignora...Thomas Green J. J. Barth?lemyTravels of Anacharsis the Younger in GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton J.J. BarthelemyTravels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece,Print: Book
1700-1799Vol 7 On the Griphi and Impromptus (quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small when at maturity.' A Shadow. Such also is this 'The...Frances Hamilton Abbot BarthelemuTravels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 27 March 1818: 'I went with the Comte Bardi to the Laurentian Library. Saw the travels (MSS.) of Cosmo III. in England in the year 167-, accompanied...Mary Berry MagalottiTravels of Cosmo III in EnglandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael RamsayTravels of CyrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'Mary Shelley John DavisTravels of Four Years and a Half in the United Sta...Print: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Rawlings read from Polo's description of the Great Khan.'Helen Rawlings Marco PoloTravels of Marco Polo Print: Book


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