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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaDe Veritate ProfeticaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'George Eliot [pseud] Giovanni BoccaccioDecameronPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'George Eliot [pseud] Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Donato GiannottiDella repubblica fiorentinaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDer BurgergeneralPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Carl Eduard VehseDer Hof zu WeimarPrint: 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 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] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDichtung und WahrheitPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie Burgerliche GesellschaftPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie FamiliePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn'George Eliot [pseud] Hugo MagnusDie Geschichtliche Entwickelung des FarbensinnesPrint: 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'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) Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie WahlverwandtschaftenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'.George Eliot [pseud] Jean Le Rond D'AlembertDiscours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?diePrint: Book
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaDiscourse on GovernmentPrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things...George Eliot [pseud.] George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome'George Eliot [pseud] Conyers MiddletonDr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] AristophanesEcclesiazusaePrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again'George Eliot [pseud] VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book


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