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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
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy superior to this in profundity, ingenuity, and eloqu...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scarcely anywhere so interesting a view of the interior ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous patron of learning. What with sophists, what with pret...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain that he wants only to get up a row among the sophists....Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himself. Nothing can be more courteous and generous than ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages which his wonderful talents, and his command of tem...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the place of Polus, Socrates would hardly have had so ea...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to him my discovery of the magnificent verses in which ...George Otto Trevelyan Juvenal Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Wu notes marginalia of Dorothy Wordsworth in Wordsworth Library copy of William Withering, An Arrangement of British Plants according to the latest improvements of the Li...Dorothy Wordsworth William WitheringArrangement of British Plants according to the lat...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriler ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas"...Frederick Rogers [Bible]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas...Frederick Rogers John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas...Frederick Rogers Alexandre Dumas Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Annotation]: Beside the printed words 'Just Publish'd', Peter Cunningham has added '(1744)' and [? - semi-legible - 'To Night 6' followed by [legible] '& Night-Thoughts...Peter Cunningham A Collection of Fifty Old PlaysPrint: Advertisement
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Annotations]: Just above the printed words 'A Proposal' Peter Cunningham has added [semi-legible] 'as such of Night' and [legible] '4. Of Young's Night Thoughts 1743'.Peter Cunningham 'A Proposal' [for subscribers to a volume of colle...Print: Advertisement
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'.John Ruskin Maria EdgeworthHelenPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [Genesis, IV, vv.6-7] are of much more importance to m...John Ruskin The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walter's. - Do you see what the French call him now: - (s...John Ruskin Sir Walter Scott Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them...John Ruskin Edmund SpencerThe Faerie QueenPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good." John Ruskin John Burnet[on composition]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her poetry than ever - she is a noble creature."John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems, including "Drama of Exile"Print: Book


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