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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
 
1800-1849We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aeschylus's Prometheus ? Praises of the speech in the Me...Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusPrometheusPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my partial habits of reading.Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusSupplicesPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by the 800 the other day, because I met with more difficu...Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusChoephoriPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by the 800 the other day, because I met with more difficu...Elizabeth Barrett AeschylusEumenidesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...Mary Augusta Ward AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that is English as exercises) a translation of a Chorus fr...George Gordon Lord Byron AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'.George Eliot [pseud.] AeschylusunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.'George Eliot [pseud.] AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. 'Vol 2 Agamemnon. N.B. A Speech of Cassandra. This is the state of man: in pr...Frances Hamilton AeschylusThe Tragedies of AeschylusPrint: Book
1800-1849[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschylus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'Percy Bysshe Shelley AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: Book
1800-1849'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschylus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschylus[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels'Percy Bysshe Shelley AeschylusPersaePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschylus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads fragments of Aeschylus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschylus[fragments]Print: Book
1700-1799'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...Mr Harris Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...Samuel Johnson Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Hester Lynch Thrale Aeschylus Print: Book
1700-1799'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses of Euripides - he has translated them seriously bes...Samuel Johnson Aeschylus Print: Book


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