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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	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	Virgil	Aenied	Print: 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 - ...	Mary Godwin	Virgil	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...	Mary Godwin	Virgil	unknown
	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. ... ; the Georgics; ...'	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Virgil	Georgics	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 [but included] Warburton on the Sixth Book...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Virgil	[Works]	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 [but included] Warburton on the Sixth Book...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Virgil	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus - 100 lines of the Georgics'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1818. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries] Clarke's travels Aeneid Terence...	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read S. the 6th & 1st book of the Aeneid'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Georgics'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary's reading list for 1819, an x denoting Percy having read a text too. All texts are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on these references] ...	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book

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