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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the utmost utility & what no university can teach — Homer...Robert Southey HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In reading the "Odyssey" last night among many curious passages these two lines I think applicable to the present times, Viz, "why cease ye then ye wreath of Heaven to s...Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read 2 books of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Pope.'Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Came home about 8.10. Read part of Homer's "Odyssey".'Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'After supper read the 13th book of Homer's "Odyssey", wherein I think the soliloquy which Ulysses makes when he finds the Phaeacians have, in his sleep, left him on shor...Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day... In reading Homer's "Odyssey", I think the character which Menelaus gives Telemachus of Ulysses, when he is a-speaking of his war-like virtues in the 4...Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Alexander Pope, which I like very well, the language being vastly good and the turn of thought and expression b...Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the divine Eumaeus is so worthy a man, that I overlook the ...Catherine Talbot HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the traveller Ulysses, who was an observer of men and mann...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read a...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: '1/2 past 4. I have been reading Cowpers Homer & much satisfaction has the perusal afforded me. a quotation...Robert Southey William CowperThe Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into En...Print: Book
1700-1799'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute...Samuel Johnson HomerIliad and OdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...Samuel Johnson HomerIliad and OdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...James Boswell HomerIliad and OdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris. GARRICK: (to Harris.) "Pray, Sir, have you...James Boswell HomerIliad and OdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. However, I have this year read all Virgil thro...Samuel Johnson HomerodysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purposely to mislead one; Pope translated but two of the ...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (...John Ruskin HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'During the winter evenings of 1855 my father would translate the Odyssey aloud into Biblical prose for my mother, who writes, "Thus I get as much as it is possible to ha...Alfred Tennyson Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ...Hugh Miller Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book


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