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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	'Read the "1st Epistle of Horace", Lib. 2 (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus) with the aid of Dacier's notes, and Hurd's Commentary...'	Thomas Green	Horace	Epistola ad Augustum, annotated by Richard Hurd	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the "Badge" It won't hurt you --or only very little. Crane-ibn-Crane el Yankee is all right. The man sees the outside of many things and the inside of some.'	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Crane	The Red Badge of Courage	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the "Castle of Otranto", which grievously disappointed my expectations...'	Thomas Green	Horace Walpole	The Castle of Otranto	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"'	George Eliot [pseud]	Girolamo Savonarola	Compendium Revelationum	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'.	George Eliot [pseud]	[n/a]	Cornhill Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'	George Eliot [pseud]	Anthony Trollope	Orley Farm	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...'	Thomas Green	Alexander Pope	The Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefi...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'	George Eliot [pseud]	anon	Nibelungen Lied	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion...	George Eliot [pseud]	Poliziano	Stanze	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a description of a Palace of Venus which seems the suggestion...	George Eliot [pseud]	Poliziano	Orfeo	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (John)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the 10th book of "Paradise Lost" in the even.'	Thomas Turner	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the 13th satyr of juvenal with J. Fendall as he is to be lectured on it the first term at Trinity Hall'.	Benjamin Newton	Juvenal	Satires	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...'	Thomas Green	Edward Hooker	Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...'	Thomas Green	Niccolo Machiavelli	Discourses on Livy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the 1st Part of Price's "Essay on the Picturesque"...'	Thomas Green	Uvedale Price	An essay on the picturesque	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the 1st vol of Mandeville'	Mary Shelley	William Godwin	Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in E...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the 1st vol of the Pirate'	Mary Shelley	Walter Scott	Pirate, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the 1st Vol. of Sully's "Memoirs". They open a scene of manners, which, to modern conception, appears perfectly romantic...'	Thomas Green	Pierre Mathurin	The memoirs of the Duke of Sully	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book

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