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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
 
1700-1799'In the even read part of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Alexander Pope, which I like very well, the language being vastly good and the turn of thought and expression b...Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesHomer OdysseyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". I also read Mr. Hervey's "Theron and...Thomas Carter HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt i...Samuel Bamford HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the divine Eumaeus is so worthy a man, that I overlook the ...Catherine Talbot HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the traveller Ulysses, who was an observer of men and mann...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read a...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... an "Odyssey" or two ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Old plays'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read 2 books of Homer'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil thro...Samuel Johnson HomerodysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purposely to mislead one; Pope translated but two of the ...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeOdysseyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Homer OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849‘...in my Sophocles I fail’d, chiefly from being put on in a misprinted passage – for the play was one I had studied with more than common attention. In Virgil I stumbl...Hartley Coleridge HomerOdysseyPrint: written and oral examinations
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] HomerOdyssey and IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgOeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisaPrint: Book


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