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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'George Gordon Lord Byron XenophonRetreat of the Ten ThousandPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- read the "Ten Thousand" again, and will go to bed.'George Gordon Lord Byron XenophonRetreat of the Ten ThousandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Xenophon[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill XenophonCyropaediaPrint: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill XenophonMemorials of SocratesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'John Stuart Mill XenophonThe AnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ...Thomas Carlyle XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'Percy Bysshe Shelley XenophonMemorabilia SocratisPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.Percy Bysshe Shelley XenophonMemorabilia socratisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington XenophonSymposiumPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] Xenophon observes, in his "Treatise of Oeconomy", that if every thing be kept in a certain place, when any thing is worn out or consumed...Samuel Johnson Xenophon OeconomicusPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] He apprehended that the delineation of characters in the end of the first Book of the "Retreat of th...Samuel Johnson XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.'John Ruskin XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".'John Ruskin XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. June 16th, 1831: "I heard Stormy & Georgie read Homer & Xenophon — as usual, — tho’ I have not yet commemorated them here"Elizabeth Barrett Browning Xenophon[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849Diary entry. July 9th, 1831: "After breakfast, heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon"Elizabeth Barrett Browning Xenophon[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849Diary entry. August 8th, 1831: "I have written a letter to Papa, read the first vol: of the Last man, which Mrs. Martin has sent me at last —& read the whole of the 8th...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Xenophon[unknown]Unknown


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