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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end i...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.Claire Clairmont Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and Hume. S reads Gibbon - read G[e]orgics - 194'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'Mary Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'I do not know in the annals of history & barbarity any character which I so much abhor as that of the va...Robert Southey Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely be...Jane Baillie Welsh Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has interested me - 'Jane Baillie Welsh Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Edward GibbonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910: 'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are passages in it that are more than "correct", and on the...Edward Morgan Forster Edward GibbonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 5 May 1917: 'I am anxious to re-read a little history and see how its solemn arrangement of "movements", which, while the...Edward Morgan Forster Edward Gibbon Print: Book
1700-1799'I told him, that I had been present the day before when Mrs. Montagu, the literary lady, sat to Miss Reynolds for her picture ; and that she said, "she had bound up Mr. ...Elizabeth Montagu Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken down Gibbon's work and read occasionally therein; and,...George Grote Edward Gibbon Print: Book
1850-1899From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken down Gibbon's work and read occasionally therein; and,...William Harris Edward Gibbon Print: Book


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