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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
 
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] T.A. TrollopeLa BeataPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] Franco SachettiNovellePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] Jean Charles L?onard de SismondiHistory of the Italian RepublicsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of Charles V.Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished second volume of Burder. Began Gibbon's account of his own life.'Benjamin Newton Samuel BurderOriental Customs:or an illustration of the sacredPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sheridan's "Life of Swift"....'Thomas Green Thomas SheridanLife of SwiftPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses", with an eye to a peculiar and distinguishing doctrine which runs through the whole, and is manifestly a particular favourite ...Thomas Green Joshua ReynoldsSeven DiscoursesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"; [borrowed from Mr Manley on visit to Stammington, July 7 1798] It has of late become the fashion to cry down Sterne as the greatest ...Joseph Hunter Lawrence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy [in 2 vol...Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'.George Eliot [pseud] BekkerChariklesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished Surgical Diagnosis by Martin 750 pp.'Albert Ruskin Cook Edward MartinSurgical DiagnosisPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1700-1799'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's version...'Thomas Green Torquato TassoJerusalem DeliveredPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the "Aeneid". Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sublime imagination, but in the exquitie art and consum...Thomas Green VirgilAeniedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution". I have found that considerably more of it has appeared in the "Monthly Magazine" than they acknowledge...Joseph Hunter [Anon] Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the Fren...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Athenian Letters"...'Thomas Green Philip YorkeAthenian LettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of poetry...'Thomas Green William GiffordThe BaviadPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished the "Birth Stories" and began "La Mort des D....." which seems excellent.' Gertrude Bell Dmitry Sergyeevich Merezhkovsky?La Mort des Dieux: Le roman de Julien l'Apostat Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able t...Albert Battiscombe Thomas MooreThe Epicurean. A TalePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able t...Albert Battiscombe William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare as I had all night, I was able t...Albert Battiscombe Thomas MooreParadise and the PeriPrint: Book


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