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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burnet (Own Time, began).William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Tues 24 November 1840]. read Burnet - Bruce on Assam- Clarendon- [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Weds 25 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Neal - Clarendon- [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 11 April 1913: 'I have [...] read -- with difficulty -- another Young Fiction of the day [...] Gilbert Cannan's "Round the Corner".' Henry James Gilbert CannanRound the CornerPrint: Book
1900-1945'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, drinking sample bottles of liqueur from Paris-Plage o...Vera Brittain Gilbert FrankauThe City of FearPrint: Book
1900-1945'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again. He read me extracts from a book by Mr. Gilbert Franka...Cyril Lionel Robert James Gilbert Frankau Print: Book
1900-1945'I've read so many descriptions in newspapers of the ruin and desolation caused in this war. Famous literary men have tried their powers of description and All (with th...Robert Lindsay Mackay Gilbert Frankau[unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dis...George Crabbe Gilbert KnowlesMateria medica botanicaPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & readin...Virginia Woolf Gilbert MurrayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interesting & useful introduction to the evening's subject ...Henry Marriage Wallis Gilbert MurrayRise of the Greek Epic, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interesting & useful introduction to the evening's subject ...Helen Rawlings Gilbert MurrayRise of the Greek Epic, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interesting & useful introduction to the evening's subject ...Elizabeth Marriage Gilbert Murray[translations]Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

<...		Francis Pollard Gilbert Murray[Introduction to his translation of Euripides’ Alc...Print: Book
1900-1945'I'm still in hospital but I've made a very rapid cure (I was pretty bad when I came) and I hope they will let me go back to Basrah in a day or two. I've been quite extra...Gertrude Bell Gilbert Murray[English verse translations of Greek plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'There is also a "Greek Literature" by Gilbert Murray, the bad verse-translator, which I have read with dire anger, as he degrades Homer from a poet into a "question" a...Clive Staples Lewis Gilbert MurrayA History of Ancient Greek Literature (Short Histo...Print: Book


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