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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 am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ...Thomas Carlyle XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.Percy Bysshe Shelley ArrianAnabasisPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] He apprehended that the delineation of characters in the end of the first Book of the "Retreat of th...Samuel Johnson XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1900-1945"CPT read this aloud to PJD December 1957, the last book we read before his death in Jan 1958. He had not read it since Harrow days, (at school) aged 16!" Written by Paul...Charles Philips Trevelyan Xenophon AnabasisPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: "The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from Macaulay's Dindorf." Many MS dates of reading betwee...George Otto Trevelyan Xenophon Anabasis; with an English translation by Carleton ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley M.G. LewisAnaconda, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given]Hester Lynch Thrale AnacreonAnacreon to himselfUnknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Anacreontic Lay', beginning 'Sing! - who sings!/ To her who weareth a hundred rings? / Ah who ...Barry CornwallAnacreontic LayUnknown
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Edward Tenison, a pair of anagrams on Elizabeth Lyttelton's name, and also a pair of couplets, written on the occasion of h...Elizabeth Lyttelton Edward Tenisonanagrams and coupletsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'... but I suppressed it at once and kept on at Wodrow's Analecta (a Covenanting book) and made my notes as best I could.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowAnalectaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tennyson] was sent to the Grammar School [at Louth] [...] I still have the books which he used there, his Ovid, Delectus, Analecta Graeca Minora, and the old Eton Latin...Alfred Tennyson Analecta Graeca MinoraPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am now reading Butler's Analogy'Elizabeth Gurney Joseph ButlerAnalogyPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Whewell to Rose, dated 24/6/1818, discusses Butler's argument.William Whewell Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Natural and Revealed eligion to the ConPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Joseph ButlerAnalogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked int...George Gordon, Lord Byron Joseph ButlerAnalogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[By c. late 1830s] My mind had [...] become much quietened and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard mentioned with admiration,and ...Elizabeth Sewell Joseph ButlerAnalogy of ReligionPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. F...Donald William Alers Hankey Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard mentioned with admiration, and which I stumbled upon...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think ...Marianne Francis Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think ...Sarah Harriet Burney Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the ...Print: Book


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