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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'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'John Ruskin Pliny[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.'John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'John Ruskin Edmund Spenser [?][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'John Ruskin Richard Hooker [?][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I staid in and read Byron'John Ruskin George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the Archibishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter, r...John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, by chance, not knowing it was the day on which they ...John Ruskin John Charles Ryle[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read to children under tree.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Rouen missal with advantage'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is invaluable to me, because the devil being called Luc...John Ruskin Voltaire [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read chapter of Heliodorus.'John Ruskin Heliodorus[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown


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