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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Francois de La RochefoucauldMaximesPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Frenchman who wrote Maxims says 'there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with Ingratitude'.George Crabbe Francois de La RochefoucauldMaximesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Maxims of Bishop Middleton'. Various maxims follow, including 'Keep your temper', 'Employ leisure in study,' an...C.M.G. [anon] Bishop MiddletonMaximsUnknown
1700-1799I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "C...Samuel Richardson Fulke GrevilleMaxims, Characters and ReflectionsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the World - Adrastus, Sicinius & Strabo are admirable in th...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Fulke GrevilleMaxims, Characters, and ReflectionsPrint: Book
1700-1799'We may apply to him [Johnson] a sentence in Mr. Greville's "Maxims, Characters, and Reflections"; a book which is entitled to much more praise than it has received: "ARI...James Boswell Fulke GrevilleMaxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Sat...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often ...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMaxims, in Wilhelm Meisters WanderjahrePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never retu...George Gissing Thomas HardyMayor of Casterbridge, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy's life and gave some idea of the succession of works...Rosamund Wallis Thomas HardyMayor of Casterbridge, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books & illustrations & R. H. Robson read from "Far from ...Muriel Bowman Smith Thomas HardyMayor of Casterbridge, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work...Howard R. Smith Arthur Quiller-CouchMayor of Troy, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Jany -- 5th. [...] Read Mazeppa.'Claire Clairmont George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Transcribe Mazeppa'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it a fire, and a passion, and a rapid intuition of gen...Robert Louis Stevenson George Gordon Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfield then read a critique of Byron's work showing he be...Celia Burrow George Gordon, Lord ByronMazeppaPrint: Book
1850-1899In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bourget having failed to translate Kipling's "McAndrew's...Henry James Rudyard KiplingMcAndrew's HymnUnknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Donald RossMD - Doctor of MurderPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fairbairn's Christ in Modern Theology which also excit...Elizabeth Ann Smith Frederic HarrisonMeaning of History, The Print: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Harry Emerson FosdickMeaning of PrayerPrint: Book


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