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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
 
1800-1849'Aunt Fanny [Allen] is in a rapture with ''Sartor'' and feels quite convinced that Teufelsdröckh is meant for Coleridge [...] For my part it is such very hard reading t...Emma Wedgwood Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Mignon Castle Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to have our grand-motherly sergeant as chief of the guar...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'At one end of the shop stood the foreman's little glass office, from which he could observe all that was going on through the windows in front of him. To obstruct his vi...Vero Walter Garratt Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1700-1799Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly Juvenal'...William Wordsworth JuvenalSatire XUnknown
1700-1799William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly...Francis Wrangham JuvenalSatire XUnknown
1700-1799'While under the tuition of Mr. Smerdon, Gifford had translated the "Tenth Satire" of Juvenal for a holiday task.'William Gifford Juvenal Satire XPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, far more variety, more sentiment, more thought. But ...Thomas Babington Macaulay HoraceSatiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the 13th satyr of juvenal with J. Fendall as he is to be lectured on it the first term at Trinity Hall'.Benjamin Newton JuvenalSatiresPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that he polished everything high. His 'Satires', his 'Ethi...Anna Seward Alexander PopeSatiresPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'I have read all Juvenal with pleasure it is a manly stile more adapted to me than the sly sarcasms of Horace but ...Robert Southey JuvenalSatiresPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have read 12 Satires of Juvenal with a vast deal of pleasure — the 8th is the only one which my head (des...Robert Southey JuvenalSatiresPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both...Leonard Woolf Horace SatiresPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas HardySatires of Circumstance: Lyrics and Reveries; with...Print: 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] ...; all Boileau's "Satires"...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Nicolas] Boileau[-Despreaux]Satires [and other works]Print: Book
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its As...anon [n/a]Saturday MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the worthy chaplain has lent me. There are six double volume...John Mitchel [n/a]Saturday MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen VariousSaturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne picture.'Ford Madox Ford [n/a]Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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