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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'George Eliot [pseud.] William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1850-1899'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.George Eliot [pseud.] William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medici"...'Thomas Green William RoscoeThe life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnifi...Print: Book
1700-1799'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...'Thomas Green William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes o...Percy Bysshe Shelley William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'Percy Bysshe Shelley William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'Mary Godwin William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'Mary Godwin William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'Percy Bysshe Shelley William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these l...James Hogg William Roscoe[pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting o...Manuscript: presumably in MS
1900-1945'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Rothenstein's 'Men and Memories in typescript, with many...Arnold Bennett William RothensteinMen and MemoriesManuscript: typescript
1900-1945 I am returning your Memoirs. Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips here and there. And also one or two places where I t...Arnold Bennett William RothensteinMen and MemoirsManuscript: typescript
1900-1945'Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my "less perishable" being. And how beautifully all those deeply felt...Joseph Conrad William RothensteinA Plea for a Wider Use of Artists and CraftsmenPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'Thanks ever so much for the admirable book of portraits. Every one is a revelation-especially of course those of the people one knows, if ever so little.'Joseph Conrad William RothensteinTwenty-Four Portraits, with Critical Appreciation ...Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William Roughead, 29 January 1914:'I devoured the tender Mary Blandy [subject of one of Roughead's chronicles of murder trials] in a single feast [...] You...Henry James William Rougheadchronicle of trial of Mary BlandyUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell William RussellHistory of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1700-1799'We finished today to read Russels "Modern History", which is perfectly well wrote and in a very intertaining [sic] manner'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne William RussellHistory of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...'Thomas Green William RussellThe History of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and al...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William RussellHistory of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1700-1799'I read Wm S- letter and thought upon it and religion before I got up, I think of and feel religion at times but I do not understand it always'Elizabeth Gurney William Savery[letter]Manuscript: Letter


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