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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
 
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneid [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Translate s[pinoza] - S reads the Aenied [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes aloud the 3rd book of the Aenied [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'Percy Bysshe Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me'Mary and Percy Shelley VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin the Georgics with S.'Mary and Percy Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'Mary and Percy Shelley VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, alw...Eleanor Anne Porden VirgilEnvyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - I Book of Virgil'Mary Shelley Virgil[probably] GeorgicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Is it the third or the fifth book of Virgil you so much liked; I have taken to reading the third.'Robert Louis Stevenson VirgilThe Aeneid, Books III and probably VPrint: Book
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1700-1799'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...Samuel Johnson VirgilGeorgicsPrint: Book
1700-1799'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to com...Samuel Johnson VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson Virgil8th EcloguePrint: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson Virgil1st GeorgicPrint: Book
1700-1799'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute...Samuel Johnson VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer; as to the pastoral part, Virgil is very evi...Samuel Johnson VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farcical, would please children here, as children are ent...Samuel Johnson Virgil Print: Book


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