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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & some are grave, but all full of action, & with a great...Sarah Harriet Burney Alberto NotaCommediePrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read "Comment debuta Marcel Proust"? I cried over it. (By the way, that might be quite a good book to publish in translation; it's quite short.)' Vita Sackville-West Louis de RobertComment debuta Marcel ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945'The weary Press caustically reported a current quip: "Good news at last! Two of our generals were captured at Tobruk!" and the "Sunday Express" philosopher, Nathaniel G...Vera Brittain Nathaniel Gubbinscomment in the "Sunday Express"Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Mr T.[aaffe] in the evening - read his notes to Dante'Mary Shelley John TaaffeComment on the Divine Comedy of Dante AlighieriManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Read, after a long interval, with much delight, the first two Books of Caesar's "Commentaries"....'Thomas Green Julius CaesarCommentariesPrint: Book
1800-1849I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my spirits oil without which, its own friction against it...Anne Lister David Henry UrquhartCommentaries on classical learningPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the spring of 1826, after getting through Valpy's Delectus, and a part of Stewart's "Cornelius Nepos, " and also a part of Justin, but somewhat clumsily, with the hel...Thomas Cooper CaesarCommentaries On The Gallic WarPrint: Book
1700-1799I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla...Francis Place William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s History of England, both for the 2d time over & in t...John Marsh William BlackstoneCommentaries on the laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831: 'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a ...Elizabeth Barrett Sir William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John James Morgan, 6 March, 1797: 'Blackstone & I agree better than perhaps you imagine. true it is that I should like to write Commentaries upon his Co...Robert Southey Sir William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have now gone thro Blackstone often & attentively, so repeatedly reperusing the more important parts, th...Robert Southey Sir William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England Print: Book
1800-1849'Search in Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving [I] think, to be more talked of'William Windham William BlackstoneCommentaries on the laws of England [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. "Jones's "Commentarii" ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone [William?] JonesCommentariiPrint: Book
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1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading,...Gabriel Harvey Heinrich RantzauCommentarius Bellicus ... praecepta, consilia et s...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried EichhornCommentarius in Apocalypsin JoannisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried EichhornCommentarius in Apocalypsin JoannisPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's Inferno] -- but except her father Guido's tomb -- an...George Gordon Lord Byron Benvenuto da ImolaCommentary on Dante, CommediaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dark passages before you get at anything worth standing...Elizabeth Barrett St John ChrysostomCommentary on the EphesiansPrint: Book
1600-1699'God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of "Martin Luther", his comment on the "Galathians", so old that it was ready to fall piece from piece, if I did but turn i...John Bunyan Martin LutherCommentary on the GalationsPrint: Book


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