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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' ... C[oleridge] was reading ... [Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria] on arrival at Allan Bank in Sept. 1808 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PetrarchDe Vita SolitariaPrint: Book
1700-1799" Read Six Sonatto di Petrarca"Lady Eleanor Butler PetrarchSonatto di PetrarcaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge PetrarchIl Petrarca di nuova ristampato, & c diligentementPrint: Book
1700-1799'he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them. He used to mention ...Samuel Johnson Petrarch[works]Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson Petrarch[unknown oration]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin PetroniusSatyriconPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.Mary Godwin PetroniusSatyriconPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1814: all the titles have database entries based on journal entries about reading them] Diogenes Laertius Cicero - Colectanea. Petron...Percy Bysshe Shelley PetroniusunknownPrint: Book
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. ... ; and a good deal of Petronius; ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone Petronius[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Phaedon[unknown]Print: Book
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. ... ; all Phaedrus; ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone Phaedrus[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in Phillips' Tour. He writes "Bedford presents 'objects of exhaustless eulogy' when referring to the different chantres".'John Cole PhillipsTourPrint: 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 PindarunknownPrint: 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 PindarunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependent upon the copy of Schmied's edition (Wittenberg, 1...Samuel Taylor Coleridge PindarCarminaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'. Samuel Johnson Pindar[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As an instance of the niceness of his taste, though he praised West's translation of Pindar, he poin...Samuel Johnson PindarOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, June 27, 1831: "I read Pindar's first Olympic today -& thought of tomorrow – tomorrow’s fatal decisive letter."Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst Olympian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, January 21, 1832: "Read the 7th Olympic ode – about Agesias, & Rhodes"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarSeventh Olympian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, March 1, 1832: "In the evening I read a part of Pindar’s 8th Olympic. And de Genlis’s story of Delphine in the Tales of the castle, which I like because ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarEighth Olympian OdePrint: Book


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