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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Here I am reading Virgil?s delightful Georgics for the first time. They really attune perfectly well with the plains and climate of Naseby. Valpy (whose edition I have...Edward Fitzgerald VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1850-1899I 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 Virgil Print: Book
1700-1799'On the inside cover of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 2, in use during 1786-7, a faint pencil inscription survives from c.1786: "Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula," from Virgil, ...William Wordsworth VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manuscripts indicate that the translations were made in su...William Wordsworth VirgilGeorgicsUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of Virgil's Eclogues, which reached me at last. I have ...William Wordsworth VirgilEcloguesUnknown
1850-1899'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most particular, it said, in mantaining variety in his r...Wiliam Ewart Gladstone VirgilunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on books, but sufficiently easy to afford me plenty of...Anne Lutton Virgil Print: Book
1800-1849'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Virgil Print: Book
1700-1799Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aeneid".'Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard Doctor Collier say [wrote Hester Thrale in undated letter] that Harry Fielding quite doated upon his Sister Sally till she had made herself through ... Dr. ...Sarah Fielding Virgil Print: Book
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Virgil[unknown]Unknown
1700-1799[Marginalia]: ms note in Latin on inside front cover may or may not be connected with the text as the book has evidence of its young owner using the blank spaces to play ...William Erskine VirgilWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt i...Samuel Bamford VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Superstitious Intention by way of trying the "Sortes Vi...Hester Lynch Thrale VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh VirgilEneidPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again'George Eliot [pseud] VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb VirgilunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the old solitary years, a long time ago, by the shores of Canadian rapids, on the edge of West Indian swamps, his Virgil had been an inestimable solace to him...The b...Philip Gosse Virgil[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'One evening my father took down his Virgil from an upper shelf...And then, in the twilight, as he shut the volume at last, oblivious of my presence, he began to murmur a...Philip Gosse VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
'I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment [a marksmanship contest for the ladies of the Austrian court], and I do not know but it might make as good a ...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu VirgilAeneidUnknown


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