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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
 
1850-1899'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, especially by the advantage of his age and very hard ...John Ruskin W. OrmeLife and Times of Richard BaxterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found n...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions about his tabernacle.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour's command, to call to the feast only the poor, the ...John Ruskin PlatoPhaedrusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer made of soot or lampblack". "Daily Telegraph". June...John Ruskin [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wanting that to what is present."' John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deut. ii, 4, 8, 12. 2 Sam. viii, 14. 1 Kings xi, 15, xx...John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies, to be expressed by imitation of this order in our l...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in marginal reading.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Notebooks i 1002, 1004 and 1005 reveal that, 1-9 Nov. 1801, C[oleridge] was reading a copy of Digby's Two Treatises (1645) borrowed from Carlisle Cathedral Library.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kenelm DigbyTwo Treatises, in the one of which, the nature of ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Notes on Colossians'Sarah Good [Anon] [Anon][Notes on Colossians]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Notes on Thessalonians'Sarah Good [Anon] [Anon][Notes on Thessalonians]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Nothing approaching it [Cunninghame Graham's book "Mogreb-el-Acksa"] has appeared since Burton's "Mecca" [...] and Burton's "Mecca" is nowhere near it.'Joseph Conrad Richard BurtonPersonal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah a...Print: Book
1900-1945'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translati...Wilfred Owen Henri BarbusseUnder FirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translati...Siegfried sassoon Henri BarbusseUnder FirePrint: Book
1850-1899'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it suits them; then Carpenter so angry at the blow of ...John Ruskin George SandLe peche de M. AntoinePrint: Book
1900-1945'Nothing in it however, [ie "A Student in Arms"], if I remember aright, quite reaches the level of this last article, a wise and charming piece of work - and doubly so ...Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey'Don't Worry'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and translated, from the German, the first half of "Mohs";'Thomas Carlyle Friedrich MohsCrystalographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as English write foolish romances in quantities.'John Ruskin [unknown]Journal pour tousPrint: Unknown


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