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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
 
1800-1849'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me that deplorable (these blots are no work of mine) vo...Jane Baillie Welsh Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio)UnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have ...Jane Baillie Welsh Gozzi CarloTurnadot, Princess of ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have ...Jane Baillie Welsh Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las CasesMemorial de Sainte HelenePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to l...Jane Baillie Welsh Johann Wolfgang von GoetheStellaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled me so excessively that I thought it adviseable to l...Jane Baillie Welsh Johann Wolfgang von GoetheClavigo, a TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation you seemed to have in allowing me to read him I fel...Jane Baillie Welsh Giovanne BoccaccioDecomerone o ver Cento NovellePrint: Book
1800-1849'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but at bottom another of the same.-'Thomas Carlyle Johann Gottfried GruberChristop Martin WielandPrint: 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 have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely bet...Jane Baillie Welsh Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEgmontPrint: Book
1800-1849'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different parts of the book - in the two first my choice was fort...Jane Baillie Welsh Giovanne BoccaccioDecomerone o ver Cento NovellePrint: 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
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 Niccolo MacchiavelliDiscourses on LivyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still easily fail to be a great man. You shall see his Bron...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon ByronThe Age Of BronzePrint: BookManuscript: LetterUnknown
1800-1849'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than...Jane Baillie Welsh Germaine de StaelLife of Necker [Jacques?]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerFiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical ...Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingto]n whenever you get there, with multifarious advice...Thomas Carlyle Johann Karl August MusaeusVolksmahrchen der DeutschenPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Tell me - did you write the critic [critique] on his [Edward Irving's] book, which appeared in the Sunday Times - I had not read two sentences of it till I said to mysel...Jane Baillie Welsh AnonReview of Edward Irving's The Orations and the Arg...Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.- "The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought, And is with Child of glorious great intent, Can neve...John Keats Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849'I felt rather lonely this Morning at breakfast so I went and unbox'd a Shakspeare - "There's my Comfort". John Keats William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selkirk, which as I learn from this day's newspaper (aft...Thomas Carlyle [newspaper]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter


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