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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'At home all day. In the even read the 11th and 12th books of "Paradise Regained", which I think is much inferior for the sublimity of style to "Paradise Lost".'Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and commenting on my "Memoir of Lady Russell," spoke frankly, s...Sir James Mackintosh John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and suspicious legend...'Thomas Green John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: 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 [but included] ... In poetry, "Paradise Los...Mountstuart Elphinstone John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Paradise Regain[e]d aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Paradise regained aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: 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...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: 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 RegainedPrint: 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 RegainedPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.'Emma Darwin John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1900-1945'I should advise you to get the 2/6 volume containing Milton's minor poems, which I am now reading.... I am at "Comus", which is an absolute dream of delight. I am sure...Clive Staples Lewis John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. unwell - he reads the Paradiso'Percy Bysshe Shelley Dante AlighieriParadisoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriParadisoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday [...] May 1st. [...] Read 1st Canto of Dante's Paradiso'.Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriParadiso (Canto 1)Print: Book
1800-1849'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begi...Percy Bysshe Shelley CiceroParadoxa StoicorumPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Tait and Stewart’s new book. As far as I have gone, a little disappointed. Is my father reading it?'Robert Louis Stevenson Balfour/Peter Guthrie [joint authors] Stewart/TaitParadoxical Philosophy, a Sequel to the Unseen Uni...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read till Dejeuner; sat opposite the Espieux. Afterwards finished the "Cathédral[e]" and talked to M. de Rival. Played chess with the bearded gentleman, finished "Paris"...Gertrude Bell ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 22 February 1816: 'Your Paris Revisited has been in constant use since I received it ... Nothing in your works has charmed us more than ...Wordsworth FamilyJohn ScottParis Revisited in 1815 by way of BrusselsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & ...Sarah Harriet Burney John ScottParis revisited in 1815 by way of BrusselsPrint: Book


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