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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and began to read Macaulay's essay on Bacon - "the grea...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayEssays [on Bacon]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'',and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.'Emma Darwin George BrimleyEssays, by the Late George BrimleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Septimus Moulton-Barrett, 6 February 1840: ''Tell [Papa] too what I forgot to tell, that I have finished Shelley's volumes which, if it were not f...Elizabeth Barrett Percy Bysshe ShelleyEssays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Frag...Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle Benjamin Thomson Count RumfordEssays, Political, Economical and PhilosophicalPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making another, and advise you to buy Count Rumford's Essays...Sydney Smith Benjamin Thomson, Count von RumfordEssays, Political, Economical and PhilosophicalPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1841: 'Yes [...] to [having read] Emerson's letters [sic]. Or rather, yes, to the letters, & "no" to Carlyle's pre...Elizabeth Barrett Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays: First SeriesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Heavily annotated, with considerable marginalia in pencil in both English and Italian. Summary of responses (with page references) on the half-title page. Presented to Ve...Vernon Lee Benedetto CroceEstetica: Come scienza dell?espressione e linguist...Print: Book
1850-1899George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter part, but miserable writing.'George Gissing George MooreEsther WatersPrint: Book
1900-1945'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world, and I'm feeling quite Browningesque. I haven't got my movement orders yet, but I've been posted to the 10th Battn....Herbert Edward Read George MooreEsther WatersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Esther Waters" which I though excellent — so direct and simple — and "La Seconde Vie de Michel Teissier" which interested me. Prosperous journey &mdash...Gertrude Bell George MooreEsther Waters: A NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1845: 'I have found [...] the continuation of David Sichard [novel by Balzac] [...] It is "Esther" in two volumes, & t...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacEsther, ou les Amours d'un vieux banquierPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge A member of the Church of England Eternal Punishment Proved to Be Not Suffering, But...Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster Edith WhartonEthan FromePrint: Book
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeEthic EpistlesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeEthic EpistlesPrint: Book
1700-1799'An Officer in the Army once asked old Major Markham how he could make any Pleasure out of such a Book, it was Pope's Ethic Epistles - why says the Major did you ever try...Major Markham Alexander PopeEthic EpistlesPrint: Book
1700-1799'An Officer in the Army once asked old Major Markham how he could make any Pleasure out of such a Book, it was Pope's Ethic Epistles - why says the Major did you ever try...Alexander PopeEthic EpistlesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one...Aristotle EthicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'George Eliot [pseud] Benedictus de SpinozaEthicsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842: 'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his work upon rhetoric -- but I mean to take him regu...Elizabeth Barrett Aristotle EthicsPrint: Book


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