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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'I wish you would cannonade this N[ewto]n. I cannot bear, that another of Apollo's genuine Offspring should pass down to future Times with such crude and unworthy Notes.'Samuel Richardson John MiltonParadise LostPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the door closed behind the other chapel-goers, I looked at ...Harriet Martineau John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with benevolent satisfaction - yet, I cannot help viewing the...Mary Wollstonecraft John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'We read "Paradise Lost" in Gen. English & I tried to look enthusiastic, but I really can't appreciate Milton. He's so unreal and unalive. I must try to read a lot of h...Hilary Spalding John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious notes, probably a copy of Bishop Newton's edition of...Thomas Carter John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Charles Stansfield John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, in reflections on reading (1798): 'When I read "Paradise Lost," I am no more able to conceive the powers of imagination and genius exerted by Milton in the co...Mary Berry John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849 'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Bo...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke and Captain BoothbyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Twould make a Paradise of Hell-- & fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]'Lady Caroline Lamb John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849'[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a misquotation of 'restraint she will not brook', Book IX...Benjamin Shaw John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" better [...] I cannot help smiling at my young fancys in ...John Clare John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of "Paradise lost"'Albert Battiscombe John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'There was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton -- and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boo...Anne Isabella Milbanke and Captain BoothbyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Spent most of the day reading the "Paradise Lost"; I was quite delighted with it'.Harriet Wynne John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in the 2d. Book, is transcendantly sublime...'Thomas Green John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin John MiltonParadise Lost
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gradually acquired me the place in her favour which I ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John MiltonParadise lostPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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