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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
 
1600-1699'so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus "de scribendis Epistolis", a very good book; especially, one letter of advice to a...Samuel Pepys Desiderius ErasmusDe conscribendis epistolisPrint: Book
1800-1849[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Empe...Percy Bysshe Shelley BoethiusDe Consolatione PhilosophiaePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgDe cultu et amore DeiPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument against the credibility of visions and prophecies.Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe DivinationePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joannes Scotus ErigenaDe divisione naturae libri quinquePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joannes Scotus ErigenaDe divisione naturae libri quinquePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried Jakob HermannDe emendenda ratione graecae grammaticae pars primPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgDe equo albo de quo in ApocalypsiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgDe equo albo de quo in ApocalypsiPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, luminous and full of interest; but the Epicurean theory...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
1800-1849But the book I am most pleased with is 'cicero de Finibus' - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is su...Thomas Carlyle CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
1800-1849'But the book I am most pleased with is "Cicero de Finibus" - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is s...Thomas Carlyle CiceroDe Finibus Bonorum et MalorumPrint: Book
1850-1899'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...'George Eliot [pseud] Humphrey HodyDe Graecis IllustribusPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Many thanks for your letter which greeted me on our weekly return to our old farmhouse behind the lines … I’m sending herewith—it strikes me it may interest you—a co...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas à KempisDe imitatione ChristiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hugo de GrootDe jure belli et pacisPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.'Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Heinrich HeineDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which however I could not sleep ... ) & so Good Morning - ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publication without my perusal of many of its pages ... I sho...George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s "Allemagne". The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds with information, and shows great mental power. She w...Hannah Macaulay Germaine de StaelDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book


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