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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Diary entry. October 20th, 1831: "Was in Mr. Boyd’s room before nine. Heard him say over the passages in the Prometheus, & read Gregory. He told me that he had a great ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus OrationsPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. September 19th, 1831: "He showed me his Benedictine edition of Gregory. It is in high preservation, & very beautiful. I will get one like it, whenever I ha...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. September 26th, 1831: "We read another passage from Gregory’s Apologia — not a very fine one. Then we read the exordium of The Orations against Julian. It ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 433. December 1st, 1831: "I both Simpson’s & Hutchinson’s editions of Zenophon, the double tau takes the place of the double sigma, — and sun of ksun."Elizabeth Barrett Browning Xenophon[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. September 26th, 1831: "We read another passage from Gregory’s Apologia — not a very fine one. Then we read the exordium of The Orations against Julian. It ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus Orations against JulianPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 433. December 1st, 1831: "You know my Isocrates is a bad edition. In it, there is sometimes a double tau & sometimes a double sigma quite ad libitum. For insta...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Isocrates[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. November 30th, 1831: "We read passages from Gregory’s apologetic, — comparing his marks with mien, in different copies, — & came to the conclusion, that ou...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. December 8th, 1831: "Mr. Boyd certainly pleased to see me. I read what he wanted to hear out of Phillips —& something form the apologetic besides".Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 443. March, 29, 1832: "Nonnus appears to have few instances of hiatus. I have observed— αυτοθι εμπεδα...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Nonnus of Panopolis[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Letter 444. March, 31st, 1832: "I think it may be better to write directly to yourself, on the subject you enquire about. In Theocritus—καλα ε...Elizabeth Barrett Browning TheocritusIdyllsPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 444. March, 31st, 1832: "I think it may be better to write directly to yourself, on the subject you enquire about. In Theocritus—καλα ε...Elizabeth Barrett Browning HesiodTheogonyPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 447. April, 19th, 1832: "These are the lines from Anacreon, Makarizomen se tettix, Hote dendreoon ep’ akroon Oligeen droson pepookoos, Basileus hopoos, aeide...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Anacreon Print: Book
1800-1849Letter 447. April, 19th, 1832: "I have looked over the first Pythian again. The finest passage in it, is longer than Synesius’s ninth hymn"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst Pythian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849‘I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of Pindar...I have not found the former very difficult, any further than as deep thinking and conceal’d c...Hartley Coleridge Pindar[unknown]Print: Book, university set text
1800-1849'I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of...the Νικομάχεια Ἠθικὰ of ...Hartley Coleridge AristotleNicomachean EthicsPrint: Book, university set text
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‘Have you seen Southey’s Vision of Judgement!!!!! O Tempora, O Mores – And is it come to this? And our dear good mother gave me such a hint to praise in her last letter...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheyA Vision of JudgementPrint: Unknown
1800-1849‘Of course I need not tell you...that I wrote the critique on the Pilgrim to Compostella in Blackwood – that both the Professor and I have read "the Progress and Prospe...Hartley Coleridge Robert SoutheySir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress an...Print: Book
1800-1849‘...the Court Journal (which by the way, seems to be very good – for nothing – )...The Court Journal must pay uncommon well, before I will rank myself among its familia...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a]Court JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘You perhaps recollect the only rememberable lines in Prior’s Solomon – that very respectable poem, which nevertheless, is rather too like one of Mrs. Fry’s Newgate-mad...Hartley Coleridge Matthew PriorSolomon on the Vanity of the WorldPrint: Book


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