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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		Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Rossetti has thoroughly understood the passage througho...John Ruskin Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is not yet set - It is only on the mountains" But he dra...John Ruskin PlatoDeath of SocratesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Modern Painters.'Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters I and IIPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor."John Ruskin Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be useless to you. Carey is on the whole the best - and ver...John Ruskin Dante Alighieri Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen John Milton Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a copy and a too flattering letter [...] Nothing half so ...Francis Jeffrey Margaret OliphantPassages in the Life of Margaret MaitlandPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (...John Ruskin HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (...John Ruskin HomerIliadPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (...John Ruskin Johann von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"It is very like Shirley except that there is no heather & the people are all of them of the Yorkshire kind as described by the Brontes."Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Rather vexatiously Mat Arnold has sent in an article wh. I must read before it goes in because it is supposed to be heterodox & I can't get it back till tomorrow night."Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldLiterature and Dogma (possibly)Manuscript: proofs of article
1800-1849
1850-1899		"I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though she does not have such a young lady like admiration fo...Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as a critic that the less authors read of criticisms t...Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in its various manifestations? Consequently within give...Leslie Stephen William Thackeray Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I find it very hard to tell you the truth. I admire Engli...Leslie Stephen George EliotRomolaPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be ...Leslie Stephen Victor Hugo Print: Book


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