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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons "Devil is an Asse".'Samuel Pepys Ben JohnsonDevil is an AssePrint: Book
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1850-1899		'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, and talk with such fanatical warmth about his 'great...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonThe AlchemistPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, into a play. Catiline is a very middling play. The c...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am meant / Catiline: They had lost their science else.'...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. ...Dorothy Wordsworth Ben Jonson[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'It is now 7 o'clock ... Wm. is still on his bed ... I continued to read to him. We were much delighte...Dorothy Wordsworth Ben JonsonTo PenshurstPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: 'It was a pleasant afternoon. I ate a little bit of cold mutton ... and then sate over the fire, reading...Dorothy Wordsworth Ben JonsonTo PenshurstPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'William was reading in Ben Jonson -- he read me a beautiful poem on Love.'William Wordsworth Ben JonsonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a little German ...'William Wordsworth Ben JonsonunknownPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'He [William Wordsworth] is now reading Ben Jonson ... It is about 10 o'clock, a quiet night. The fire flut...William Wordsworth Ben JonsonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899 " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to my self- respect. I had long coveted in ...Edmund Gosse Ben Jonson Print: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite...Allen Clarke Ben Jonson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] Ben JonsonAlchemist, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] Ben JonsonVolponePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ben JonsonThe Dramatic Works of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson Ben Jonson[poems complete works]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's "Cateline", a very excellent piece.'Samuel Pepys Ben JonsonCatelinePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then went home and read a piece of a play (Every Man in his Humour, wherein is the greatest propriety of speech that ever I read in my life); and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Ben JonsonEvery Man in his HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonThe Fountaine of Selfe-Love. Or, Cynthia's RevelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and begins Lalla Rookh'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonVolpone, or the FoxePrint: Book


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