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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'John Ruskin [unknown]Roman de la rose [?]Print: Book
1700-1799[bailiffs burst into her room to take her to the Marshalsea; one of them] 'who had employed himself in looking over my Papers, cried, "Ay the [italics] Irish [end italics...Laetitia PilkingtonRoman Father, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'However, at all Hazards, I'll venture to stand the Test of publishing the Following, because Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] approved it.' [LP then reproduces several ...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonRoman Father, The; A TragedyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- read Roman History.'George Gordon Lord Byron Roman historyUnknown
1700-1799Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particularly taken with the battle near the Lake Regillus i...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most particular, it said, in mantaining variety in his r...Wiliam Ewart Gladstone Dr LangerRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Nathaniel HookeRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton AppianRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wilde was still at Portora. It is full of marginal notes...Oscar Wilde LivyRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Nathaniel HookeRoman History from the Building of Rome to the Rui...Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Oliver GoldsmithRoman History From The Foundation of The City of R...Print: Book
1850-1899?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of writing, for which I am not in the vein.? Robert Louis Stevenson unknownRoman LawPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 26 January 1873: "I trust indeed [Edward S.] Stokes will be hanged [for murder of James Fisk]. I have just been reading in the Roman ne...Henry James Roman newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'H.M Wallis ably reviewed Dill's Social Life in the Roman Empire & much discussion followed'.Henry Marriage Wallis Samuel DillRoman Society from Nero to Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his Tusculan villa, i.e. at his father's house in Saffron...Gabriel Harvey Roman textsPrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1576-77, just before Philip Sidney went on his mission to the Emperor Rudolph II in Prague, h...Gabriel Harvey and Philip SidneyT. Livii PataviniRomanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimid...Print: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. The...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas PrestonT. Livii PataviniRomanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimid...Print: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae histori...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. LivyRomanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimi...Print: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Livy's Romanae historiae with reference to passages on ...Gabriel Harvey T. Livii PataviniRomanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimi...Print: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": " ... when ... [Harvey] and [Philip] Sidney went through books 1-3 [of Livy's Romanae historiae],...Gabriel Harvey and Philip SidneyT. Livii PataviniRomanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimi...Print: Book


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