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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
 
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'George Eliot [pseud] LucretiusDe Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucretiusde Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Lucretiusde Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [....(Included) Alfred Tennyson and Francis Turner PalgraveLucretius De rerum naturaPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unin...George Grote Lucretius De rerum naturaPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg Lucretius De Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hugh of Saint Victor De SacramentisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Cicero "De Senectute": a most exquisite and finished disquisition...'Thomas Green CiceroDe SenectutePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'Mary Godwin CiceroDe SenectutePrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'Mary Godwin Cicerode SenectutePrint: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Rudolf Jakob CamerariusDe sexu plantarum epistolaPrint: Book
1700-1799'He had in his pocket, "Pomponius Mela de Situ Orbis," in which he read occasionally, and seemed very intent upon ancient geography.' Samuel Johnson Pomponius MelaDe situ orbisPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant piece of latin on the eternity of future punishment e...Robert Southey Thomas BurnettDe Statu Mortuorum Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas BurnetDe Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium LiberPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829: 'You will think me very idle when I tell you that the Apologetis is not finished yet. But the ...Elizabeth Barrett Longinus De SublimitatePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus. I read them [italics]regularly[end italics] thro'...Elizabeth Barrett Longinus De SublimitatePrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 22 April 1827: 'Wrought [i.e. worked] in the afternoon and tried to read De Vere, a sensible but heavy book written by an able hand -- but a great bore for all...Walter Scott Robert WardDe VerePrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 4 July 1827: 'Read De Vere the rest. It is well written in point of language and sentiment but has too little action in it to be termd a pleasing Novel. Eve...Walter Scott Robert WardDe VerePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaDe Veritate ProfeticaPrint: Book
1700-1799'[having been searching for evidence of the truth of Christianity, Johnson] recollecting a Book he had once picked up in the Shop, & again thrown by, entitled De Veritate...Samuel Johnson Hugo GrotiusDe veritate religionis ChristianaePrint: Book


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