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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'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... a few chapters of Herodotus ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone HerodotusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'Percy Bysshe Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'Percy Bysshe Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Herodotus - Gillies & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'Percy Bysshe Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Herodotus with S.'Mary and Percy Shelley HerodotusHistoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read...Alfred Tennyson Herschel'Astronomy'Print: Book
1800-1849'Eve. We read one of Hervey's "The minstry of reconciliation" - again.'John Cole HerveyThe Minstry of ReconciliationPrint: Book
1700-1799Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 10 December 1745: 'Caroline [?wife] begs her best requests to Mrs Richardson and yourself, and many thanks for the present I brought...Caroline [?Young] HerveyMeditations [?Among the Tombs]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 HesbertunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Hesiod Print: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley HesiodWorks and DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, ...Samuel Johnson Hesiod Print: Book
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson Hesiod Print: Book
1800-1849Letter 444. March, 31st, 1832: "I think it may be better to write directly to yourself, on the subject you enquire about. In Theocritus—καλα ε...Elizabeth Barrett Browning HesiodTheogonyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Charles Evans HigsonOf an OrchardPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873): 'Oct. 28th. London. 4 Seamore Place. We took up our abode at Seamore Place in the house we shared with Lady Franklin, and A. like...Alfred Tennyson HintonThe Mystery of MatterPrint: Book
1900-1945'The same afternoon we were received with much pomp and ceremony by [His Holiness] the Rawal [of the pilgrim village of Badrinath]. An address was read to us by his inter...Frank Smythe His Holiness the Rawal of Badrinath[address to mountaineers]Unknown
1900-1945'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised ...Antonia White Hoare[article on Rimbaud]Print: Unknown
1800-1849?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmontel?, and published by Mr Holcroft, with other entert...John Opie HolcroftTheatrical recorderPrint: Serial / periodical


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