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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, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading severa...Elizabeth Barrett St ChrysostomunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828: 'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your English [...] Besides this, I have been reading severa...Elizabeth Barrett St ChrysostomunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829: 'You will think me very idle when I tell you that the Apologetis is not finished yet. But the ...Elizabeth Barrett St Chrysostom'In Eutropium Eunuchum, Patrium et Consulem'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Friday Night,' December 1829: 'I have read the seven orations on Paul, & the eighth one on the same subject [goes on briefly ...Elizabeth Barrett St Chrysostomorations including (probably) Homily on 1 Corinthi...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthian...Hugh Stuart Boyd St Chrysostom'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthi...Elizabeth Barrett St Chrysostom'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'Print: Book
1900-1945Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb'), with closing remarks: 'Now farewell St Jerome...Edward Morgan Forster St JeromeSelect Letters of St JeromePrint: Book
1800-1849'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmaster living in a back street in our native town to gi...Elizabeth Missing Sewell St MatthewMatthew 2:1Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday -- Jan. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno. Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley St MatthewGospelPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we tele...Alfred Tennyson St MatthewGospelPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".'George Bernard Shaw St PaulEpistlesPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews. I have taken this epistle for a particul...Elizabeth Missing Sewell St PaulEpistle to the HebrewsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary (1865): 'Oct. 6th. A. read me some Lucretius, and the 1st Epistle of St Peter. (At work on his new poem of "Lucretius.")'Alfred Tennyson St PeterFirst EpistlePrint: Book
1500-1599About the same time also he read over St. Augustines Meditations, which so affected him, that he wept often in the reading of them. James Usher St Augustine St. Augustines MeditationsUnknown
1900-1945'Thursday 8th July I am enjoying ? between books - the ?Everyman? ?Little Flowers of St. Francis?, and find it very lovely if at times a little amusing. Cannot however...Gerald Moore St Francis of AssissiLittle Flowers of St FrancisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge St Francis of Sales Il Teotima osia il trattato dell'amor di DioPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of St Ignatius of Antioch, 'My Love is Crucified'. Elizabeth Lyttelton St Ignatius of Antioch My Love is CrucifiedUnknown
1800-1849I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dark passages before you get at anything worth standing...Elizabeth Barrett St John ChrysostomCommentary on the EphesiansPrint: Book
1900-1945So, after riding with friends on Dartmoor by old ways known and loved since childhood, I would sit on their tennis court through the afternoons and read Philby's Ar...Freya Stark St John PhilbyThe Heart of Arabia: A Record of Travel and Explor...Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Lines written on the Author's being asked why he ceased his Poetical effusions', beginning, 'D...St. George Tucker [attrib.]Days of my YouthUnknown


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