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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
 
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Plato[unknown]Print: Unknown
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 PlautusunknownPrint: 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 PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.'Lord Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834. The second in January and the beginning of February 1835'. Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginning of February 1835 The third on the Sundays from ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginning of February 1835 The third on the Sundays from ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time went; and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys PlayfordDancing Master OR English Dancing MasterPrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters whi...William Wordsworth PlinyEpistolarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pliny[letters]Print: 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 Pliny[letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plat...Mary Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny.'Mary Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'Mary Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'John Ruskin Pliny[unknown]Print: Book
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1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Pliny the Younger[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40Meeting held at Hilliers, Northcourt Avenue. 26. ii. 40. Rosamund Walis in the Chair
1. Minutes of last ...		Mary Pollard Pliny the Younger[lettter giving an account of the eruption of Vesu...Print: Book


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