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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'.George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaProcessiPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaCompendium RevelationumPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.George Eliot [pseud.] Girolamo Tiraboschi[probably] Storia della letteratura italianaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.'George Eliot Girolamo Tiraboschi[probably] Storia della letteratura italianaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'.George Eliot [pseud.] Giuseppe Zirardini [probably]Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimote...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel'George Eliot [pseud] Goldwin Smith[answer to Mansel]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Laocoon'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Po...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear and lively, the thoughts acute and pregnant. It is we...George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Po...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingNathan der WeisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingMinna von BarnhelmPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) Harriet Martineau[article on Missions in the Westminster Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace'George Eliot [pseud] Harriet MartineauHistory of the Peace: Being a History of England f...Print: Book
1850-1899'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fat...George Eliot (pseud) Harriet MartineauHistory of the Thirty Years PeacePrint: Book
1850-1899'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Meister till 10'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine"Donna Clara"Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeinepoemsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDie Gotter im ExilPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine[poems]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDe l'AllemagnePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare....George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDer SalonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy'George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine[on German philosophy]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown



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