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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...[Miss] Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - When our good old grand pa', Adam, and the Angel Gabri...Elizabeth Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
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[-] John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that she reads Don Quixote & Paradise Lost, & her sister ...Janet Case John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impressions of Paradise Lost [...] Impressions fairly well...Virginia Woolf John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountably expressive of the description.'John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and lines "Breathe forth Elixir pure"; "when with one virtuo...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'.John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apollonian. Satan first "throws round his baleful eyes", the...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet M...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expressed a wonder that the poet who had written "Paradis...Hannah More John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon the purest Tory principles - it is very observable a...Dr Collier John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon the purest Tory principles - it is very observable a...Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 1-5] Keats underlines the lines: "O for that warning voice, which he who saw/ The Apocalypse heard...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that fair field/ Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowe...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 6, lines 58-9] Keats underlines "reluctant flames, the sign/ Of wrath awaked", and writes '"Reluctant" with...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 7, lines 420-34] Keats underlines the phrase "With clang despised the ground, under a cloud/ In prospect." ...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 41-7]: 'Had not Shakespeare liv'd?'John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excluding "where soonest he might find /the serpent", and w...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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