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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ...Thomas Carlyle HomerThe Iliad / OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... an "Odyssey" or two ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone 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
1900-1945'If one read at all one was soon noticed. I lay in bed one night with a book I had bought at Smith's. They had a shop near our hut in Catterick Camp. It was S. R. Crocket...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Samuel Rutherford CrockettThe Smugglers: The Odyssey of Zipporah KattiPrint: 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'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
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read 2 books of Homer'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's "Odyssey" xi...Ronald Storrs HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Old plays'Mary Shelley HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante'Mary Shelley Homer[probably] OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'Mary Shelley Alexander PopeIliad of Homer / Odyssey of HomerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday August 19th. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.' Claire Clairmont Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translati...John Masefield Homer OdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesHomer OdysseyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] HomerOdyssey and IliadPrint: 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


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