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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Romeo and Juliet"'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: T...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus of Euripides'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday March 10th. [...] Read Romeo and Juliet.'Claire Clairmont William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric': 'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[end italics]: one's taste and critical faculties, th...Edward Morgan Forster William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last night by a log-fire, I seemed the loneliest most contented man in the world. I was reading Romeo and Juliet and beginning this letter to you. I had a kitten & my te...Walter D'Arcy Cresswell William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1900-1945'It certainly is a grievous pity that Shakespeare filled Romeo and Juliet with those appalling rhymes. But the worst thing in the play is old Capulet's preposterous spe...Clive Staples Lewis William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels'in Shakespeare's ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scene, whatever the French critics may say. It at once ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is not what would be commonly called fine; but I would g...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo be? / Came he not home to- night?' in Shakespeare's...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is beyond the reach of anybody but Shakespeare.'Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in which Juliet at once withdraws her whole confidence f...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Lawrence, Macaulay remarks on the wonderful genius with...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Warburton prop...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, of fancy, as it is, - seems to me, like much of this ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If this had been in Cibber, Cibber would never have he...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Here begins a noble series of scenes. I know not...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book


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