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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] Emanuel SwedenborgunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'George Eliot [pseud] Emile Littre[on Comte]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.George Eliot [pseud] Emile Du Bois Reymond[book on Johannes Mueler]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.'George Eliot [pseud] Ernest Renan?tudes d?histoire religieusePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest RenanHistoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest RenanAverroes et l'AverroismePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with ...George Eliot [pseud] Euripides IphigeniaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'.George Eliot [pseud] Fanny LewaldWandlungenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'.George Eliot [pseud] Frances Anne KembleRecords of a GirlhoodPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'George Eliot [pseud] Francesco Filelfo[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'George Eliot Francesco Petrarch[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'George Eliot [pseud.] Francesco Sachetti[stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] Franco SachettiNovellePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'George Eliot [pseud] Franco Sachetti[probably] NovellePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'.George Eliot [pseud.] Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot[probably] The History of France from the Earliest...Print: Book
1850-1899'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.'George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying D...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.'George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[article on Meyerbeer]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Frederic William Henry MyersWordsworthPrint: Book
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] Frederick Pollock[biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Frederick Denison MauriceConscience: Lectures On CasuistryPrint: Book


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