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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the "Penny Cyclopaedia" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading successive articles on such subjects as Parrots, Parthi...Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'This summer, as my eighth year advanced, we read the "Epistle to the Hebrews", with very great deliberation, stopping every moment, that my Father might expound it, vers...Philip Gosse [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'In our lighter moods, we turned to the "Book of Revelation", and chased the phantom of Popery through its fuliginous pages.'Philip Gosse [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'When in years to come, I read "Dombey and Son", certain features of Mrs Pipchin did irresistibly remind me of my excellent past governess.'Edmund Gosse Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught. It consisted of strings of works, and of grim arra...Edmund Gosse [unknown][Latin Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about the Antilles there", he said, and left me with "Tom Cr...Edmund Gosse Michael ScottTom Cringle's LogPrint: Book
1850-1899'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following afternoon we began "The Merchant of Venice". There was on...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'Prominent among these was a set of the poems of Walter Scott, and in his unwonted geniality and provisional spirit of compromise, my Father must do no less than read the...Philip Gosse Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1850-1899'...but she procured for me a copy of "Pickwick", by which I was instantly and gloriously enslaved. My shouts of laughing at the richer passages were almost scandalous, a...Edmund Gosse Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Dr. Edward YoungThe Last DayPrint: Book
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Robert BlairThe GravePrint: Book
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Bishop Beilby PorteusDeathPrint: Book
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Samuel BoyseThe DeityPrint: Book
1850-1899'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, containing a few steel engravings of statues. These attrac...Edmund Gosse [unknown][volume of engravings]Print: Book
1850-1899'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the Funeral Poets, I made a dash for the garden...Then ...Edmund Gosse Samuel BoyseThe DeityPrint: Book
1850-1899'My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's "Etymological Dictionary", a book published early in the eighteenth century. Over this I would pore for hours, playing with the wo...Edmund Gosse Bailey (ed.)Etymological DictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, "The Tempest", in a school edition, pr...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1850-1899Lancashire workman wrote to Cassell's that the first 23 volumes of the National Library "have done a great deal of good even in my own neighbourhood, for several of my ow...several Lancashire workman [n/a]Cassell's National Library (first 23 vols)Print: Book


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