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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 CatullusunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Three of W[ordsworth]'s translations of Catullus survive from between 1786 and c.1788 ["Death of a Starling" (1786); "Lesbia" (1786); "Septimius and Acme" (1788)] ... he...William Wordsworth CatullusCarminaUnknown
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay Catullus[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Solved my doubts, & read half Cebes?s dialogue before I went to bed. It is rather a pleasing than a profound performance, - & on this account as well as on account of th...Elizabeth Barrett CebesDialoguePrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, 17 August 1831: “Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus Clouds - & imitation of yesterday thunderstorm; and fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!”Elizabeth Barrett Browning CebesTablet of CebesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820: 'I send you a list of new books. Chalmers' sermon, preached after the disturbances i...Harriet Countess Granville ChalmerssermonPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through Chambers's "Twentieth Cent. Dictionary" seems to be w...William Soutar ChambersTwentieth Century DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'An historical moment - completed my odyssey through Chambers's "Dictionary" - I began 8 years and 8 months ago. Have still 30 pages of supplement - but last night saw th...William Soutar ChambersTwentieth Century DictionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Mrs. Martin lent me Dr. Channing?s treatise ?On the importance & means of a national Literature?, & I ought to be grateful to her. I have been reading it this morning. ...Elizabeth Barrett ChanningOn the importance & means of a national LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great...Thomas Burt Channing[volume of essays eg. on Milton, Napoleon and Fene...Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 October 1837: 'Read some of Channing's "Texas."'Harriet Martineau ChanningTexasUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read aloud Southey's article in the Quarterly on Cemeter...Harriet Martineau ChanningTexasPrint: Book
1800-1849' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a pamphlet by M.Chateaubriand. ' Le Roi Est Mort, Vive ...Anne Lister ChateaubriandLe Roi Est Mort, Vive Le RoiPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currently, easily.'Virginia Woolf ChateaubriandunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & Chrysostome'Mary Shelley Chrysostomus[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, ...James Lackington ChubbunknownPrint: 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 CicerounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroAcademic QuestionsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book


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