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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'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'Mary Shelley Lucian[unknown]Print: 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 LucretiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for Lucretius: '[Lady Oxford] is an adept in the text of...Lady Oxford LucretiusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] LucretiusDe Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'George Eliot [pseud] LucretiusDe Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucretiusde Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucretiusde Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Lucretius'Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'Mary and Percy Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius'Mary and Percy Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'Mary Shelley Lucretius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius'Mary Shelley Lucretius[unknown]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...Samuel Johnson Lucretius Print: Book
1800-1849Number 24 of the [Quarterly] Review pleased Gifford very much. In writing to [John] Murray on the subject, he said [in letter of 27 January 1815] [...] ["]I will beg yo...Wiliam Gifford Lyallreview of Stewart, Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist minister in whose family she worked as companion and he...Mary Smith LyellVestiges of CreationPrint: Book
1800-1849'During some months of 1837 my father was deeply immersed in Pringle's Travels, and Lyell's Geology'.Alfred Tennyson Lyell'Geology'Print: Book
1900-1945'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and study him regularly, and I find it's a great help.....th... Lyndoeunknown texts on AstrologyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Richard Sorabji LyttonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr M- along. I lay back and listened to all his plans for the regeneration of Scotland - including the one in which he is to be editor of a terrifically high-brow and in...William Soutar M[personal writings]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Read occasionally during my walk in Macdiarmid's "Sketches of nature".'John Cole MacdiarmidSketches of NaturePrint: Book


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