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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 December 1829: 'I have been reading over again Plato's Phaedon [...] The reasoning seems to me very inconsecutive & inconcl...Elizabeth Barrett Plato PhaedonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833: 'Just at this moment I am busy with Plato, trying to find out from the Parmenides what [italics]one[end i...Elizabeth Barrett Plato ParmenidesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles ...Elizabeth Barrett Plato Works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rho...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843: 'Did I tell you that I have been reading through an M.S. translation of the Gorgias of Plato, by a Mr Hyman of...Elizabeth Barrett Plato GorgiasManuscript: Unknown
1500-1599'[Roger] Ascham (1515-68) [...] visited the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) in 1550 and describes in [italics]The Scholemaster[end italics] (1570) how he found her r...Lady Jane Grey Plato unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS dates of reading: "Feb 13 1907 Welcombe"; "Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)"; "June 1915 Welcombe"; "October 1921 Wallington Have read the Euthyphron 6 times in...George Otto Trevelyan Plato Dialogues
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan.15th. [1889] My father asked Jowett whether his faith in God was more earnest than it had been. He answer...Benjamin Jowett Plato ThaetetusPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiaeus and said, "That is eternal hell which I do not be...Alfred Tennyson Plato The Vision of ErPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiaeus and said, "That is eternal hell which I do not be...Hallam Tennyson Plato Republic (Book II)Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always le...George Grote Plato TimaeusPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always le...George Grote Plato ParmenidesPrint: Book
1850-1899'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers recalled, "a thing not easily to be forgotten." He ...Oscar Wilde Plato  Print: Book
1850-1899'"The Dialogues of Plato" became one of Wilde's golden books. He marked and annotated most of the dialogues, and many of Jowett's [editor's] introductions.'Oscar Wilde Plato DialoguesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, wh...Elizabeth Carter Plato RepublicPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Plato DialoguesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have a great dislike to having no book 'on hand'; so I made a pilgrimage to our Permanent Library, determined if possible to seize upon Plato. To my great pleasure t...Eliza Ellis Plato PhaedrusPrint: 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 Pliny unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,' describing her experiences following a nearby volca...Mr Rutherford Pliny the Youngeraccount of eruption of Vesuvius over PompeiiPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find time to read the book. What stores of knowledge do I ...Samuel Richardson Pliny the Elder [observations and transcriptions from work]Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Plotinus PlotinusPlotini Platonicorum facile coryphaei operum philo...Print: Book


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