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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'Read Julie - S reads Homer'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	Illiad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S finishes Homer's Hymns'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	Hymns	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes his translation of Homer's hymn to Mercury'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	'Hymn to Mercury'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Armata - read Homer'	Mary Shelley	Homer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Homer - Old plays'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read 2 books of Homer'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'	Mary Shelley	Homer	[probably] Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey'	Mary Shelley	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...	Mary Augusta ward	Homer		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...	Miss V[-]	Homer	Odyssey and Iliad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept...	Elizabeth Hamilton	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Speaking of Homer, whom he venerated as the prince of poets, Johnson remarked that the advice given to Diomed by his father, when he sent him to the Trojan war, was the ...	Samuel Johnson	Homer	Iliad	Print: 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	Homer	Iliad and Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...	Samuel Johnson	Homer	Iliad and Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...	James Boswell	Homer	Iliad and Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...	James Boswell	Homer	Iliad and Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...	Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli	Homer		Print: Book

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