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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay unknownHistory of James IPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.Thomas Babington Macaulay George Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was always habit in our family to read aloud every evening.'Thomas Babbington Macaulay Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the latter almost entirely, by heart, merely from his de...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottLay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the latter almost entirely, by heart, merely from his de...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'This day I finished Thucydides, after reading him with inexpressible interest and admiration. He is the greatest historian that ever lived. Feb 27, 1835'.Lord Macaulay ThucydidesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.'Lord Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834. The second in January and the beginning of February 1835'. Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginning of February 1835 The third on the Sundays from ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginning of February 1835 The third on the Sundays from ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: Copious marginal updates throughout the text. Many relate to entries and are linked to the item by an * in the text but some are for people not in the direc...James Ker John BurkeA general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage a...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the...John Drummond Erskine HelvetiusA treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: copious annotations throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the margin but some are new entries inse...James Ker Edmund LodgeThe peerage of the British Empire, as at present e...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to show a rather crumpled East India Company employee, ...John Drummond Erskine William TennantIndian recreations: consisting of strictures on th...Print: Book
1800-1849"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in wh...William Wordsworth William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in wh...Robert Southey The Works of the British PoetsPrint: Book


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