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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'S reads Livy'Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi and Dante - S. finishes Livy'Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAb urbe conditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dant...Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaUnknown
1800-1849'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Livy'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'John Ruskin LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wilde was still at Portora. It is full of marginal notes...Oscar Wilde LivyRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey LloydLloyd's Penny TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fix...Katherine Mansfield Lloyd George Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Thursday, 29 May 1828: 'I have amused myself to-day with reading Lockhart's Life of Burns which is very well written -- in fact an admirable thing. He has judicious[ly...Walter Scott LockhartLife of BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836: 'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review which I am reading with great pleasure. The artic...Lord Mahon Lockhartarticle on Lord MahonPrint: Serial / periodical, 'early copy'
1900-1945'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to my own satisfaction that death is a mere passing on... LodgeunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Longinus on the Sublime; to which I had been led, by Gibbon's critique in his "Extraits Raisonnes"...'Thomas Green LonginusOn the SublimePrint: Book
1700-1799'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus, incipit I:C:T:U:S. which is an Abbreviation though...Hester Lynch Thrale Lord Corke[Letters]Print: Book
1700-1799'I have read through Lord Orrery's History of Swift. I greatly like it.'Samuel Richardson Lord OrreryRemarks on the Life and Writings of Dr SwiftPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Lowell Print: Book
1800-1849"Now it was meeting James at seven in the morning to read Lowth's Prelections in the Latin,"Harriet Martineau LowthLowth's Prelections in LatinPrint: 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 LucanunknownPrint: Book


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