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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Theodor MommsenHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "History of Rome", & amusing myself variously.' Albert Battiscombe [unknown]History of RomePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...'Thomas Green LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'In the evening read Livy - p.385 2nd vol. - 1/2 1200p in 17 days desultory reading.' [end italics]Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the fines...Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Empe...Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics]Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde T MommsenHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'John Ruskin LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 6 January 1820:] 'Read Goldsmith's History of Rome.'Elizabeth Firth Oliver GoldsmithHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [...] I was exactly in the situation of the consul, Fla...Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy (Titus Livius) History of Rome Book XIIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'Mary Shelley Thomas DayHistory of Sandford and Merton: a work intended fo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Sandford & Merton'Mary Shelley Thomas DayHistory of Sandford and Merton; a work intended fo...Print: Book
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I had always read the other side except in Hume, & wa...Lady Caroline Lamb William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never...Samuel Johnson William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Book; seems well-founded, accurate, authentic; and with...Thomas Carlyle Patrick Fraser TytlerHistory of ScotlandPrint: BookUnknown


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