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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
 
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in English and French on the following pages: 97, 206, 241, 321.Vernon Lee (Eduard) Benjamin BaillaudDe la methode dans les sciencesPrint: Book
1900-1945Marginalia in pencil in French on page 191 only; some vertical pencil marks in the margins elsewhere.Vernon Lee (Eduard) Benjamin BaillaudDe la methode dans les sciences, deuxieme seriePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'John Ruskin Alexis François RioDe la Poesie chretienne dans son principle, dans s...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles [....Elizabeth Barrett De legibusPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return from a library belonging to the dissenters — in Red...Robert Southey Johannes Ravisius TextorDe Memorabilibus et Claris Mulieribus: Aliquot Div...Print: Book
1800-1849'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'.Mary Godwin Joanna BaillieDe MontfortPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe Natura DeorumPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'George Eliot [pseud] CiceroDe OfficiisPrint: Book
1800-1849'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it too Bob - You will get thro' it in a week - and cannot...Thomas Carlyle CiceroDe OfficiisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 9. [...] Begin the Germany of Tacitus. Read Les Chevaliers des Sept Montagnes by Baron Bock [notes anecdote from this] -- [...] 'Monday April 10th....Claire Clairmont Tacitus De OratoribusPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over King's "Origin of Evil"...'Thomas Green William KingDe origine maliPrint: Book
1600-1699'To the hall, and there find the boy's verses "De peste"; it being their custom to make verses at Shrovetide. I read several, and very good they were, and better I think ...Samuel Pepys [boys in the upper forms at Eaton] De pests [Bacchus verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'No private reading except a little in "Eusebia de Praeparatio Evangelica"'. John Jones EusebiusDe Praeparatio EvangelicaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge EkkehartDe prima expeditione AttilaePrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae histori...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr.Vegetius De Re Militari (Epitoma rei militaris)Print: Book
1800-1849'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'Mary Shelley CiceroDe RepublicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'Mary Shelley CiceroDe RepublicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'Mary Shelley CiceroDe RepublicaPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... provocative omissions survive in ... [early modern manuscripts including] Lucy Hutchinson's ... translation of Lucretius' De rerum natura ..." Lucy Hutchinson Lucretius De rerum natura
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] LucretiusDe Rerum NaturaPrint: Book


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