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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncle in the act of praying. Johnson comments that the s...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who has been praised for bluntness: "Excellent! It is wor...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell!' : "This last st...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...' : "Where is there anything like this in the wor...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot but feel that the whole scene is very unnatural. He...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fault in the play, to my thinking, that Kent should be...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under the discipline of severe sorrow, is mot happily mark...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpleasing character of a story, "in which the wicked pr...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nonsense! Had Shakspeare [ sic] no eyes to see the sky w...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audacious eloquence': This is Shakspeare's [sic] manly se...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, who remarks that to call a circle an O was a very me...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hungry lions roar, / And the wolf beholds the moon'. ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath such force and blessed power": "Beautiful and easy bey...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes Fletcher might perhaps have written. The fairy scene...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith Joseph Addison Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Gottlieb Fichte Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald Horace WalpoleLettersPrint: Book


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