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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Miguel de Cervantesprobably Don QuixotePrint: Book
1600-1699'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how people may be surprized'Samuel Pepys Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo...William Wordsworth Miguel de Cervantes SavedraDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervantes, Fielding, Smollet, Richardson, Miss Burney, Volt...James Lackington Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote (probably)Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die a violent death, as has been generally fancied. He ...Samuel Johnson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu: 'The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Er...William Wordsworth Miguel CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on board boat travelling up 'valley of the Mohawk']: he...Edward Trelawny Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay on Nations'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage befor...Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Don Quixote & Calderon'Mary Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dicti...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to lose his sight [...] He took to a milk diet for some ...Alfred Tennyson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book



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