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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'Sunday July 2nd. Do a latin Excercise [sic]. Read a little of the [...] Enead [quotes Book I line 33].' ...Claire Clairmont Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday July 4th. [...] Read Virgil -- Lines 100. Read Aristippe by Wieland. [...] 'Wednesday July 5th. [...] Read 40 lines of Virgil'. [Report 'Read Virgil' ...Claire Clairmont Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'Mary Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate s[pinoza] - S reads the Aenied [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes aloud the 3rd book of the Aenied [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me'Mary and Percy Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & ha...Elizabeth Barrett Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...Samuel Johnson VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute...Samuel Johnson VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by a Prince of Spain, with the assistance of his tutor,...Samuel Johnson VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil thro...Samuel Johnson VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'There are besides, Sir Adam Fergusson, Colin Mackenzie, James Hope, Dr. James Buchan, Claud Russell, and perhaps two or three more of and about the same time period. Bu...Walter Scott Virgil AeneidUnknown
1700-1799From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay': 'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest daughter Esther, Fanny [Burney] sat by and listened, ...Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther)Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1900-1945From Mukalla I made my way with a small caravan of donkeys, inland to the wadi Du'an [...] But in Du'an I sickened, and in the great wadi Hadhramaut I very nearly d...Freya Stark VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1900-1945Luckily I have Virgil with me - I read him on my terrace in the afternoon when the sun has gone off. Nothing could be more comforting, more serenely strong; he has ...Freya Stark VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1900-1945I thought I was better yesterday and that a little walk would improve matters and went and sketched by the old wall - came back for lunch, lay on my terrace reading...Freya Stark VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1850-1899After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I...Ford Madox Ford VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent...Edward Morgan Forster Virgil Aeneid (Book II)Print: Book


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