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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Yesterday hard at "Friedrich", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some "Frederick" in spite'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday ... Worked at "Frederick".'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday hard work on "Frederick"'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'"Friedrich".'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyle's "Teutsch Ritter".'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1800-1849'I suppose one ought to read [Carlyle's] "Fred": but the extracts do look such a hash of his old sayings that one has no great appetite'.Harriet Martineau Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederi...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Read Macfarlane's "History of George III.": a strange amalgama of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded into a specious and shewy mass, by a morbid vigour of...Thomas Green Robert MacfarlaneHistory of George IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Henry's History of England, which I will repeat to you in any manner you may prefer, either in a loose, disultary [sic], unconnected strain, or dividing my ...Jane Austen Robert HenryHistory of Great BritainPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 12 January 1799: 'Somerville's "Anne" is, I think, more dry than his "William," but clear, distinct, impartial, and wonderfully informing; hi...Mary Berry Thomas SomervilleHistory of Great Britain During the Reign of Queen...Print: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 10 February 1829: 'I read over Henry's History of Henry VI and Edward IV. He is but a stupid historian after all.'Walter Scott The Revd. Dr. R. HenryHistory of Great Britain; from the invasion of Jul...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- and...George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and read Mitford again, and played with my mastiff ...'George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at 8pm] -- read History of Greece -- beore dinner had r...George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an intended tragedy of Sardanapalus ... read over a passa...George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's Greece -- wrote part of a scene of "Sardanapalus".'George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Grote on the Sophists'.George Eliot [pseud] George GroteHistory of GreecePrint: Book


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