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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
 
1800-1849'Saturday [...] April 14th. [[...] Read Die Zerstorung von Troia, freie [...] Ubersetzung der zweiten Buchs der Aeneide [sic] [precedes this with quotation of lines 3-4...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerDie Zerstorung von TrojaPrint: Book
1500-1599'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and wa...Margaret Hoby [unknown]Diet of the SoulPrint: Book
1700-1799I was sent to another school in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, when I was about seven years of age. At this old woman's school it can scarcely be said that I learnt any...Francis Place Dillworths Spelling BookPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or the world of ambition greed & snobbery. So its effe...Edward Morgan Forster Arthur Hugh CloughDipsychusPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1751: 'I have a [...] curiosity to find out the author of a book Mrs Underdown has lately been reading to me, with wh...Mrs Underdown Directions for the Employment of TimePrint: Book
1600-1699'Only, here I met with a fourth "Advice to the painter", upon the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the war, that made my heart ake to read, it being too sha...Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellDirections to a painter for describing our naval b...Print: Book
1700-1799I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, an excellent Tract by my learned and ingenious friend...Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke James SteuartDirleton's Doubts and Questions in the Law of Scot...Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverle...Anne Romilly Mary BruntonDisciplinePrint: Book
1800-1849'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreDiscontented pendulumPrint: Book, Pamphlet, chapbook
1500-1599'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade" of Machiavelli's "Discorsi"'.Gabriel Harvey Niccolo MachiavelliDiscorsi ("First Decade")Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday Dec. 11th. Begin the Observations of Macchiavelli upon the Decades of Livy.'Claire Clairmont Niccolo MacchiavelliDiscorsi ... sopra la prima deca di Tito LivioPrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. The...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas PrestonNiccolo MachiavelliDiscorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito LivioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday March 1st. [...] Begin translating De la Servitude Volontaire d'Etienne de la Boetie'. ['Translate Etienne de la Boetie' also recorded in entries for 3, 5, ...Claire Clairmont Etienne de La BoetieDiscours de la servitude volontairePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'.George Eliot [pseud] Jean Le Rond D'AlembertDiscours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?diePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jany. 30th. Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious wailing -- It had better have been entitled a Disqui...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Di...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les ho...Print: Book
1800-1849I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, must be, - seeking only to convince the human reason...Elizabeth Barrett Dr CardDiscoursePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation": a critical disquisition of considerable depth and skill...'Thomas Green Richard HurdDiscourse concerning ImitationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read again, and with more attention, Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation"...'Thomas Green Richard HurdDiscourse concerning ImitationPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Liberty and Necessity", and bid me read South's "Sermons...Samuel Johnson John BramhallDiscourse of Liberty and Necessity Print: Book


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