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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'George Gordon Lord Byron SenecatragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [....G.E. Lynch Cotton Mary Russell MitfordTragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unin...George Grote Seneca TragediesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame. My friend was of opi...Samuel Johnson Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of CarlisleTragedies and PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Fletcher's Tragedy of Bonduca aloud to me in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontTragedy of BonducaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontTragedy of BonducaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontTragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother ...Print: Book
1800-1849'S finishes the Trajedy to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontTragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother ...Print: Book
1900-1945[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Kidnapped". Not up to much... Dr came and said I couldn't go down [into lessons] until Monday. Damn. Felt miserable. Read "Trail of the ...Hilary Spalding Ernest Seton ThompsonTrail of the Sandhill Stag, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'There is a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first edition I am to have 60 guineas - the same sum for eve...Thomas Carlyle Jean AubuissonTraite de geognoisePrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40): 'Have you read Comte's "Traite de Philosophie Positive," of which a third volume has just been published? It seem...George Grote ComteTraite de Philosophie Positive (vol. 3)Print: Book
1800-1849'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow...Thomas Carlyle Jean Baptiste BiotTraite de PhysiquePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical SocietyPrint: Book
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1850-1899		From chapter entitled 'Conversations' in Maria Weston Chapman's 'Memorials' of Harriet Martineau: 'Reading an article of Miss Alcott's, she [Martineau] says, "Transcenden...Harriet Martineau Louisa May AlcottTranscendental Wild Oats (article)Print: Unknown
1600-1699"The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an...John Rogers transcribed sermonsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W...Frances Power Cobbe translated ancient philosophical textsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power t...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydTranslation from Sophocles' ElectraUnknown
1800-1849"It was while reading Mr Kendrick's translation from the German of 'Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem',with which I was thoroughly bewitched, that I conceived, and communic...Harriet Martineau Mr KendrickTranslation of 'Helons Pilgrimage from Jerusalem'Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation this moment together. the three last stanzas are certai...Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles BedfordTranslation of Horace, Odes, 2:14Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Wednesday, 17 January 1827: 'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation o...Walter Scott William Giffordtranslation of JuvenalPrint: Book


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