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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a ...John Cole European, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson MauriceEustace ConwayPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodorus and Euthydemus should have been mistaken for wisdo...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of this solemn ridicule as Plato."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverting than this dialogue. It is not only richly humorou...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaetetus inclusive: which last dialogue, I venture to th...John Stuart Mill PlatoEuthyphroPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842: 'Sir L. Bulwer has just published a set of sing-songs -- I read two, or one, in a Review -- & thought them abominable...Robert Browning Sir Edward George Bulwer-LyttonEva; the Ill-omened Marriage, and Other Tales and ...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In discussing Meredith's "Evan Harrington" (1861) in a letter to Campbell, Arthur reveals his Victorian-orientated interst in the autobiographical element in novels: ".....Arthur Symons George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan H...Edward Morgan Forster George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Have you read "Harry Richmond" lately? I like the first part of the book immensely, but skipped afterwards—copiously and vigorously. On the whole, "Evan Harrington" ...Ivor Bertie Gurney George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEvangelinePrint: Book
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1900-1945		'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty ...Joseph Stamper Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEvangelinePrint: Book
1800-1849I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the ...Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsEve of St AgnesPrint: Book
1800-1849?Amid these dark middle ages of novel literature, Miss Burney?s Evelina strikes us with the first gleam of ?rescued nature and reviving sense.? Her novels, all her novels...Charles Maturin Fanny BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book


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