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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 1-5] Keats underlines the lines: "O for that warning voice, which he who saw/ The Apocalypse heard...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that fair field/ Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowe...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 6, lines 58-9] Keats underlines "reluctant flames, the sign/ Of wrath awaked", and writes '"Reluctant" with...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 7, lines 420-34] Keats underlines the phrase "With clang despised the ground, under a cloud/ In prospect." ...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 41-7]: 'Had not Shakespeare liv'd?'John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excluding "where soonest he might find /the serpent", and w...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly known among Christians - 'tis a Shame however not to...Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send her chair for me & set me to read Milton I remember...Hester Lynch Salusbury John Milton Print: Book
1700-1799'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus, but I think very little remember'd'Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonComus: A MasquePrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Shakespeare and Milton [...] he read aloud by preference: always coming to Paradise Lost with manifest ple...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonParadise Lost (book IV)Print: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale John Milton'L'Allegro'Print: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale John Milton'Il Penseroso'Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807: 'This morning I got up between 8 and 9, read 500 lines of Milton's Paradise Lost...Lady Harriet Cavendish John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick...Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella MilbankeJohn Milton Print: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730: 'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments concerning Milton's prose writings, agree with thos...Aaron Hill John MiltonProse writingsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'My mother told us how when she was only five, she began ''Paradise Lost'', but soon asked her mother to finish it for her, and how nice it was of her mother not to ref...Emma Wedgwood John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'Anecdotish dinner; bed about 10, where read Milton's "P[aradise] L[ost] and Watson's "Jerusalem".'Ronald Storrs John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading nothing but snatches of "Paradise Lost" while waiting for the bath to fill.'Ronald Storrs John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.'Emma Darwin John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of Milton's "Paradise Lost" — in the same edition as my Mandeville.... Don't you love the Leopard witches? How you will love Mil...Clive Staples Lewis John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book


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