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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'S. reads the Plutus of Aristophanes & Gibbon'Percy Bysshe Shelley AristophanesPlutusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley AristophanesLysistrataePrint: Book
1850-1899'[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not speak it'.George Gissing Aristophanes[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of "Clouds".'John Ruskin AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.'John Ruskin AristophanesClouds, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'The library was wonderfully interesting. They have the only complete MS of Aristophanes, of the 10th century, from which all the editions have been printed, Mr Hogarth r...Gertrude Bell AristophanesThe FrogsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristotlePoliticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristotleOrganonPrint: Book
1800-1849Copied by Dorothy Wordsworth into Wordsworth Commonplace Book: 'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices "It is the property of fortitude not to be easily t...Dorothy Wordsworth AristotleunknownUnknown
1800-1849Copied by William Wordsworth into letter to Lady Beaumont, 12 March 1805: 'From Aristotle's Synopsis of the Virtues and Vices "It is the property of fortitude not to ...William Wordsworth AristotleunknownUnknown
1850-1899Aged 19, Alice Thompson '...engaged in ... earnest reading and note-taking ... from Lewis's Aristotle.'Alice Thompson AristotleunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'reasons out of Aristotle Mechanicks which I had very lately read' [explain a vision].Henry More AristotleMechanicksPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P...Robert Southey Aristotleon LogicPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding AristotleArt of PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856'George Eliot [pseud] AristotlePoeticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little in Arist. "Polit" before I went to bed.'William Windham Aristotle[Politics?] or Ethics and PoliticsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hou...Zoe Procter AristotleEthicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of...the Νικομάχεια Ἠθικὰ of ...Hartley Coleridge AristotleNicomachean EthicsPrint: Book, university set text
1800-1849'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dialogues of Plato, with the critical diligence of a jun...John Mitchel Aristotle?PoliteiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Get on but slowly with my translation of the "Politeia": and nearly repent that I began it; for I lack the energy and strength to go through with it. On some days I have...John Mitchel Aristotle?PoliteiaPrint: Book


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