√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1700-1799 'The third was of the opossum kind, and much resembled that called by De Buffon "Phalanger". Of these two last I took only one individual of each. Bats here were many: ... Joseph Banks Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere Print : Book1800-1849 'Saturday [...] Oct. 8th. [...] Read in the afternoon [following funeral of one of her pupils].
Histoire de la Revolution francaise par Antoine Fantin Desodoards [sic]... Claire Clairmont Antoine Etienne Nicolas Fantin des Odoards Histoire philosophique de la revolution de France Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening' Percy Bysshe Shelley David Hume Histoiry of England from the Invasion of Julius Ca... Print : Book1800-1849 'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'. Percy Bysshe Shelley I. Casaubon (ed.) Historia Augustana Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Livy & F of the Bees. S. reads Solis' History of Mexico' Percy Bysshe Shelley Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra Historia de la conquista de Mejico Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Livy. F. of the Bees - Copy S's poems. S reads the Hist. of Mexico - & Henry IV aloud' Percy Bysshe Shelley Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra Historia de la conquista de Mejico Print : Book1700-1799 "On 21 March 1796, [Wordsworth] told [William] Mathews that D[orothy] W[ordsworth] 'has already gone through half of Davila.'" Dorothy Wordsworth Enrico Caterina Davila Historia delle Guerre Civili di Francia ... nella ... Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'. Percy Bysshe Shelley Arrian Historia Indica Print : Book1800-1849 'Shelley reads Arrian's Historia Indicae [sic]' Percy Bysshe Shelley Arrian Historia Indica Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hendrik Brenkmann Historia Pandectarum Print : Book1900-1945 But when the morning came and we rode on, and the
beautiful land spread its high places, its secret
pastoral solitudes about us, and I sat by a spring
and ate my eg... Freya Stark William of Tyre Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum (... Print : Book1500-1599 'In A. P. Gasser's "Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome" (1538) purchased by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1576, are brief manuscript characterizations [by Harvey] of ... Gabriel Harvey A. P. Gasser Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome Print : Book1700-1799 Thursday, 1 March 1827:
'By the bye it is the anniversary of Bosworth field. In former days Richd. IIId. was always acted at London on this day [...] Walpole's Histori... Walter Scott Horace Walpole Historic Doubts on Richard III Print : Book1700-1799 'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measure transfused into my mind...' Thomas Green Horace Walpole Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Rich... Print : Book1800-1849 Saturday, 31 January 1829:
'Lookd over Cumnor Hall by Mr. Usher Tighe of Oxford.' Walter Scott H. U. Tighe Historical Account of Cumnor ... illustrative of t... Print : Book1800-1849 'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'. Thomas Carlyle George Fox Historical Account of the Life, Travels,...of Geor... Print : Book1700-1799 '"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is what I love most."
Talking of the eminent writer... Samuel Johnson Pierre Bayle Historical and Critical Dictionary Print : Book1800-1849 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo... Sarah Harriet Burney Joseph Cooper Walker Historical and critical essay on the revival of th... Print : Book, Unknown1800-1849 'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [under... Sarah Harriet Burney W.B. Stevenson Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twety Year... Print : Book1800-1849 'With George W. Norman he [George Grote] kept up a steady and intimate intercourse [...] They read books in common, chiefly on historical and political subjects, and they... George Grote and George W. Norman historical and political texts Print : Book
