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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 read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Suetonius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Adam Smith[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'.Percy and Mary Shelley Suetonius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Livy[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Livy[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Euripides[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Aeschylus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Sophocles[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]Percy Bysshe Shelley Seneca[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'had so great a Cough that I Could not goe abroad, nor the next day goe to church, but exercised my selfe at home in writinge, readinge, and prainge, as well as I Could'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so, after, I went to priuat praier and reading'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge I went to walk'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then dined: after, I talked of the sarmon, and reed to the good wiues that was with me, and then I praied and againe went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I reed and so went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Seneca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Seneca[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Seneca[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'some thinge I did eate, and then did reed, and made prouision for som strangers that Came'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed a whill and so went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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