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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
 
1800-1849'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow...Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict SaussureVoyage dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before Franklin! Then, helped infinitely by Alciat's four e...John Ruskin Horace-Bénédicte de SaussureVoyage dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1800-1849?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming story of Mademoiselle de Clermont on Madame de Genlis?s ...Maria Edgeworth BretonVoyage dans les Pays BasPrint: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la PerouseVoyage de la Perouse autour du mondePrint: Book
1850-1899'P.S. I also return the voyage diary. It is excellent, & I was very pleased with it.'Arnold Bennett George Sturtvoyage diaryManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'We read Anacharsis'Mary and Percy ShelleyJ.-J. BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley J.-J. BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus'Mary Shelley J.-J. BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Bartelemi's Anacharsis. which forms a sort of Appendix or rather comentary to the Grecian History I was so much taken up with last summer. Without such a pr...Sarah Harriet Burney Jean-Jacques BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en GrecePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Aristophanes - & Anarcharsis [sic]'Percy Bysshe Shelley J-J BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'Percy Bysshe Shelley J-J BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Anacharsis'.Mary Shelley J.-J. BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1829: 'I meant to have taken with me today the following extract from the learned Abbe Barthelemi's introduction to his "Voyage ...Elizabeth Barrett Jean Jacques BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grece (introduction...Print: Book
1800-1849'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be...Thomas Carlyle Barthelemy Faujais de Saint-FrondVoyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrid...Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: 'I know of no new books. I have been reading an old one in two volumes, two tiny ...Harriet Countess Granville DupatyVoyage en ItaliePrint: Book
1900-1945'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere...Rosamond Lehmann Jean RhysVoyage in the DarkPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there got Balty to read to me out of Sorbiere's observations in his voyage into England; and then to bed.'Balthasar St Michael Samuel de Sorbierevoyage into EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even began Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant". Read his "Life" and the "Eulogium" on it by M. Fountenelle. Memorandums on his life: [describes life of Tournefo...Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de TournefortVoyage into the LevantPrint: Book
1700-1799'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".'Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de TournefortVoyage into the LevantPrint: Book
1700-1799'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".'Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de TournefortVoyage into the LevantPrint: Book


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