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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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'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
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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
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
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
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Homer OdysseyPrint: 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
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
1800-1849I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin...Anne Lutton HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book


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