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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] AristophanesEcclesiazusaePrint: Book
1800-1849Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's "Excursion" in the Eclectic Review. Wordsworth had...William Wordsworth anonEclectic ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of Virgil's Eclogues, which reached me at last. I have ...William Wordsworth VirgilEcloguesUnknown
1850-1899'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again'George Eliot [pseud] VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1800-1849'One evening my father took down his Virgil from an upper shelf...And then, in the twilight, as he shut the volume at last, oblivious of my presence, he began to murmur a...Philip Gosse VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a writer; as to the pastoral part, Virgil is very evi...Samuel Johnson VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil thro...Samuel Johnson VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1700-1799John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first book of the Aeneid were all of Virgil that I transl...John Wilson Croker Virgil Eclogues IPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud] FawcettEconomic Condition of the Working ClassesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enclose in this envelope a copy of the 'Economic Review of the Foreign Press'. . . . I know the periodical very well as I have read it consistently for over three ye...Arnold Bennett Economic Review of the Foreign PressPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1818): 'Tuesday, Sept, 22nd, 1818. 'Rose at 7. Read Say for a couple of hours. [...] 'Rose a...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayEconomie politiquePrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] read over again that part of Say's second volume which r...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayEconomie politiquePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799: '[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seemed to have no idea of knowing how or where to look fo...Amos Cottle unknownEdda Soemundar hinns FrodaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Shelley reads Edgar Huntley to us'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Brockden BrownEdgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walkerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes his critique & then reads Edgar Huntley to us all all day and all the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Brockden-BrownEdgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walkerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was much surprised at [what] Charteris said of John Stuart Mill. "Seemed to have been kind and benevolent" is used where, for any one else, he would have said '"was" k...Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh CourantPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical


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