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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being about 40 pages [...] Read some very interesting mat...George Grote Goguet Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after breakfast read some articles in Voltaire's Diction...George Grote Goguet Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon; I do not think he has given the right reasonings ...George Grote GoguetDissertation on SanchoniathonPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon; I do not think he has given the right reasonings ...George Grote GoguetDissertation on the Book of JobPrint: Book
1800-1849"As I thought I could easily learn Italian, I took lessons from Signor D'Albrione... So we read together part one of the comedies of Goldoni...."Thomas Cooper GoldoniComediesPrint: Book
1800-1849I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. The merit of the first, is Richardson?s; & there is n...Elizabeth Barrett GoldoniPamelaPrint: Book
1800-1849I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. The merit of the first, is Richardson?s; & there is n...Elizabeth Barrett GoldoniPamela MaritataPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chiselled, severe; has read: was reading Goldoni he said....Walter Sickert Goldoni Print: Book
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervantes, Fielding, Smollet, Richardson, Miss Burney, Volt...James Lackington GoldsmithVicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751: 'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; but his brother is, who is [...] very ingenious, and e...J. Duncombe and others in Cambridge GrahamepigramUnknown
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'.Fanny Kemble GrahameHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth suggests to Francis Wrangham that he attempt to write a local history: 'I am induced to mention it from a belief that you are admirably qualified for s...William Wordsworth GraveThe History and Antiquities of Cleveland in the No...Print: Book
1800-1849'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaining "Letters" of Mr. Gray together with M. Sismondi's...Thomas Carter GrayLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I [...] reflected that at battalion headquarters the charms of our library — O. Henry, the “Field Service Pocket Book” and “Spoon River” — were now rather wi...Edmund Blunden Great Britain General staff War Office Field Service Pocket BookPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807 (re 20 August): 'After tea, Mr. Greathead, at my request, read to us his translation in verse of Boccaccio's "Lisabetta and her Brothe...Mr Greathead Greathead"Lisabetta and her Brothers" (verse translation af...Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1807 (re 20 August): 'After tea, Mr. Greathead, at my request, read to us his translation in verse of Boccaccio's "Lisabetta and her Brothe...Mary Berry Greathead"Lisabetta and her Brothers" (verse translation af...Unknown
1850-1899'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber GreenHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849We [EB & Mr Boyd] read passages from Gregory?s apologetick, - comparing his marks with mine, in different copies, - & came to the conclusion, that our tastes certainly do...Elizabeth Barrett GregoryApologetickPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a ...Elizabeth Barrett GregoryOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And yet I really read nothing superficially. There is a ...Hugh Stuart Boyd GregoryOdesPrint: Book


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