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George Eliot [pseud.]
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Herbert Spencer : The Genesis of Science
'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Henry V
'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Henry VIII
'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3
'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : Richard II
'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Cumming : unknown
'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Sophocles : Antigone
'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
P. von Bohlen : Genesis
'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Emanuel Swedenborg : unknown
'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
George Meredith : The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment
'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Charles Kingsley : The Greek Heroes
'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Karl Friedrich August Kahnis : [history of German Protestantism - title unclear]
'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
William Heinrich (?) Riehl : unknown
'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
David Masson : [essay on the Life of Chatterton]
'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Unknown
Richard Chenevix Trench : An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With translations from his Life's a dream and Great theatre of the world
'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse : "Vier Neue Novellen"
'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Unknown
Henri Marc-Bonnet : "Histoire des Ordres Religieux"
'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
T.A. Trollope : La Beata
'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Franco Sachetti : Novelle
'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : History of the Italian Republics
'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti's Novelle, and Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
W.G. Tenneman : Manual of the History of Philosophy
'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown : Le Moyen Age Illustre
'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while for me to keep the work.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown : [article in the Athenaeum]
'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening read the "Monks of the West".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical
Charles Montalambert : The Monks of the West
'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening read the "Monks of the West".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Anton Francesco Doni : I Marmi
'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Giovanni Boccaccio : [story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron]
'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
anon : Arabian Nights, story of the Little Hunchback
'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nights, which is still better. Read Nardi in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici
'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Francesco Sachetti : [stories]
'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
William Roscoe : Life of Lorenzo de Medici
'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
[probably] Luigi Pulci : [if this Pulci, poetry]
'began Pulci'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Giovanni (?) Villani : Life of Savonarola [in his Cronica?]
'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Giuseppe Zirardini [probably] : Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimoterzo al decimonono secolo
'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Anna Jameson : Sacred and Legendary Art
'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Marullus : unknown
'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Joseph Pettigrew : Medical Superstitions
'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Girolamo Tiraboschi : [probably] Storia della letteratura italiana
'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Daniel Rock : Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Manni : [Life of Burchiello]
'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Anna Jameson : Sacred and Legendary Art
'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown : [article in the National]
'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical
Daniel Rock : Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass
'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Anna Jameson : Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine Arts
'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Marchese : Storia di San Marco
'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown : [article on Mormons in Westminster Review]
'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical
unknown : Archivo Storico
'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Unknown
Vespasiano da Bisticci : [probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV,
'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Pierre Louis Ginguene : unknown
'Read Ginguene in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Charles Lewes : [compositions]
'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness of expression about common things'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Unknown, compositions
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot : [probably] The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789
'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Niccolo Machiavelli : The Prince (probably)
'Looked through Machiavelli's works'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Pasquale Villari : unknown
'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Ludovico Antonio Muratori : unknown
'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown : [English history in reign of George III]
'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Shakespeare : King John
'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Aeschylus : unknown
'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : [article on Grote's Plato]
'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article
Aeschylus : Agamemnon
'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu : Contes populaires des anciens Bretons
'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
John Stuart Mill : On Liberty
'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
David Friedrich Strauss : Life of Jesus [second version]
'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown Neale : History of the Puritans
'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the Puritans of which I have reached the fourth volume'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
: Bible
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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Henry Hallam : The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages
'began Hallam's Middle Ages'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Thomas Babington Macaulay : [perhaps] History of England [?]
'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
John Stuart Mill : A System of Logic
'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Theocritus : unknown
'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown : [English History and Law]
'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
George Eliot (pseud.) : Felix Holt
'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel
Friedrich Bouterwek : Geschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol on Spanish literature]
'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi : [unknown - on Spain]
'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Georges Bernard Depping : [unknown - on Spain]
'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Juan Antonio Llorente : [Spanish history]
'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Georges Depping : Juifs au Moyen Age
'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Geoffrey Chaucer : [unknown]
'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
unknown : [works on music and acoustics]
'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Ernest Renan : Histoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s?mitiques
'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Ticknor : History of Spanish Literature
'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Cornewall Lewis : Astronomy of the Ancients
'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Simon Ockley : History of the Saracens
'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
unknown : [books on Astronomical Geography]
'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
unknown : [ballads on Bernardo del Carpio]
'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
unknown : Los Judios en Espana
'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Thomas Percy (ed.) : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
unknown : Isis
'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Homer : Iliad
'Reading the Iliad, book III'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
William Henry Prescott : History of Ferdinand and Isabella, The
'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Ernest Renan : Averroes et l'Averroisme
'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Eliakim Carmoly : Histoire des M?decins Juifs
'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
unknown : First Principles
'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
George Henry Lewes : [letter]
'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Manuscript: Letter
Salomon Munk : Melanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe
'Reading
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown Guillemin : [presumably astronomy text]
'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
John Lubbock : Prehistoric Times
'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Lucretius : De Rerum Natura
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Homer : Iliad
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
John Milton : Samson Agonistes
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Thomas Warton : History of English Poetry, The
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
George Grote : unknown
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Dante Alighieri : La Vita Nuova
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Auguste Comte : Syst?me de politique positive
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Edwin Guest : History of English Rhythms, A
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Frederick Denison Maurice : Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown : [philology books]
'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Homer : Iliad
'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Edmund Spenser : Faerie Queene, The
'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
[Mrs] Grey : [Etruscan subjects]
'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
George Dennis : Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, The
'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Alchemist, The
'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Ben Jonson : Volpone
'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
John Bright : [Speeches]
'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
George Gordon Lord Byron : Don Juan
'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
John Bright : [4th speech on India]
'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown : [Italian story]
'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
unknown : Spectator, The
'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical
W Thomson : [essay in Revue des Cours]
'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Serial / periodical
Alessandro Manzoni : I Promessi Sposi
'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Theodor Mommsen : History of Rome
'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Charles Dickens : Edwin Drood
'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'
