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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly known among Christians - 'tis a Shame however not to...Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807: 'This morning I got up between 8 and 9, read 500 lines of Milton's Paradise Lost...Lady Harriet Cavendish John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'My mother told us how when she was only five, she began ''Paradise Lost'', but soon asked her mother to finish it for her, and how nice it was of her mother not to ref...Emma Wedgwood John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'Anecdotish dinner; bed about 10, where read Milton's "P[aradise] L[ost] and Watson's "Jerusalem".'Ronald Storrs John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading nothing but snatches of "Paradise Lost" while waiting for the bath to fill.'Ronald Storrs John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of Milton's "Paradise Lost" — in the same edition as my Mandeville.... Don't you love the Leopard witches? How you will love Mil...Clive Staples Lewis John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'I hope you are well, and are finding some solace in your duties. You must find it hard to console aliens in England. They probably love England, and now they are ali...Ivor Bertie Gurney John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night's rest. He went to bed -- I read to him, to endeavo...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonParadise Lost (Book I)Print: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] a little of 1st Canto of Paradise lost by the side of the fire which ...Claire Clairmont John MiltonParadise Lost (Book I)Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Shakespeare and Milton [...] he read aloud by preference: always coming to Paradise Lost with manifest ple...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonParadise Lost (book IV)Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 February, 1802: 'After tea I read aloud the eleventh book of Paradise Lost. We were much impressed, and also melted into ...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonParadise Lost (Book XI)Print: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Mins...Elizabeth Barrett John MiltonParadise Lost (extracts)Print: Book
1850-1899'. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'.Alexander (Rex) Ewing John MiltonParadise Lost [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'To Love thou blam'st me not; for love thou say'st/Leads up to Heaven/ is both the way and guide/...' 'Milton'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJohn MiltonParadise Lost, Book VIIIUnknown
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That the Muse visits his Slumbers & awakes & governs his So...William Blake John MiltonParadise Lost, vii, 29-30Print: Book
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonParadise Lost: a poem in twelve booksPrint: Book
1800-1849'[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'.Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas BrownParadise of CoquettesUnknown
1600-1699"One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C14a12) ... contains handwritten corrections of both t...anon John MiltonParadise Regain'd/Samson AgonistesPrint: 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 ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book


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