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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'.George Eliot [pseud.] Anna JamesonSacred and Legendary ArtPrint: Book
1900-1945'I comforted myself last night when I couldn't sleep, by reading those truly wonderful passages about the shells and sea -nymphs in Sacred and Profane Love. What miraculo...Edith Sitwell Sacheverall SitwellSacred and Profane LovePrint: Book
1700-1799'Brought Wolstonecraft's "View of the French Revolution", from the Chapel Library, for Miss Haynes to read. Read in Miss Hannah More's "Sacred Drama", David & Goliath, I ...Joseph Hunter Hannah MoreSacred Dramas: Chiefly intended for Young PersonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[her mother having forbidden her to learn to read due to her weak eyes] I was at this time about five Years of Age, and my Mother being one Day abroad, I had happily lai...Laetitia van Lewen Alexander PopeSacred Eclogue in Imitation of Virgil’s 'Pollio'Print: Book
1800-1849'Read W Trimmer's Sacred History.'John Cole W TrimmerSacred HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructive and improving work, Sarah Trimmer's sacred history...John Larpent Sarah TrimmerSacred historyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructive and improving work, Sarah Trimmer's sacred history...Anna Larpent Sarah TrimmerSacred historyPrint: Book
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?...Thomas Carter Sharon TurnerSacred history of the creationPrint: Book
1800-1849I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire. So that my opinion is nothing outrageous. I do no...Elizabeth Barrett Joseph ClarkeSacred LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.'John Cole BradleySacred Lyre, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 May 1843: 'Mr Reade's "Sacred Poems" I am now looking into by dear Mr Kenyon's kindness. He is [italics]in Wordsworth n...Elizabeth Barrett John Edmund ReadeSacred PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewes; these were chiefly theological. The only one, tha...James Hogg Thomas BurnetSacred Theory of the EarthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - & Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening - read 24th Canto of Dante with him'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonSad Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - Dante with me - & finishes the Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Ben JonsonSad Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over (with the notes) with great pleasure. I receive yo...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonSaeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live inUnknown
1800-1849'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca [quotes three lines from Act I] 'Read Memoires of the last Revo...Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday May 20th. Read History of the Revolution at Naples.'Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday June 5th. Read Saggio [...] storico sulla Rivoluzione di Napoli.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for 6 and 7 June 1820].Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday June 28th. [...] Begin Nicholson's Natural Philosophy -- Read Saggio Istorico della rivoluzione di Napoli [sic] [makes notes on this]'. [records of furthe...Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.' [readings from latter text also recorded in entries for 26, 27, 29 July 1820]. ...Claire Clairmont Vincenzo CuocoSaggio storico sulla rivoluzione di NapoliPrint: Book


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