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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, wh...	John Ruskin	Stephane-Felicite de Genlis		Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both bec...	John Ruskin	Stephane-Felicite de Genlis	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'.	John Ruskin	Maria Edgeworth	Helen	Print: Book
		Letter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the stor...	John Ruskin		Arabian Nights	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's las...	John Ruskin	Lord John Russell		Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [G...	John Ruskin		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of...	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Unknown
	1850-1899	Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lip...	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death ...	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	Richard II	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walte...	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junctio...	John Ruskin	Horace Benedict de Saussure	Voyages dans les Alpes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many ...	John Ruskin	Aubrey Thomas de Vere		Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in ...	John Ruskin	Edmund Spencer	The Faerie Queen	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browining	Aurora Leigh	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good."	John Ruskin	John Burnet	[on composition]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - F...	John Ruskin	Robert Browning	Men and Women	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H53, January 1857 "But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he ...	John Ruskin	Hans Christian Andersen	Fairy legends and Tales	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her ...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Poems, including "Drama of Exile"	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Ros...	John Ruskin	Dante Alighieri	Inferno	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is n...	John Ruskin	Plato	Death of Socrates	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree wi...	John Ruskin		The Athenaeum	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - wh...	John Ruskin	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Destruction of Sennacherib	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor."	John Ruskin	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - ...	John Ruskin	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	The Burden of Nineveh	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be usel...	John Ruskin	Dante Alighieri		Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butter...	John Ruskin	Ellen Heaton	Tales	Manuscript: Unpublished short tales
	1850-1899	Letter H 49 (late November 1856) ?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Aurora Leigh	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860) ?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is ...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Poems before Congress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860) ?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly o...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Poems before Congress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861) ?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?	John Ruskin	William Morris	The Defence of Guenevere	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho...	John Ruskin	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho...	John Ruskin	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863 Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho...	John Ruskin	Johann von Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,...	John Ruskin	William Wordsworth	poetry	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	" ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 've...	John Ruskin	Philip Nichols	Sir Francis Drake Revived	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention ...	John Ruskin	John Aikin	Evenings at Home	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigra...	John Ruskin	John Aikin	Evenings at Home	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error ...	John Ruskin	John Aikin	Evenings at Home	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, und...	John Ruskin	John Aikin	Evenings at home	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford	Print: Book
	1850-1899	John Ruskin to Alfred Tennyson, from Strasburg (1860): 'I have had the "Idylls" in my travelling desk ever since I ...	John Ruskin	Alfred Tennyson	Idylls of the King	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'	John Ruskin	Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi	Italian Republics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla...	John Ruskin	Henry Fielding	Amelia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla...	John Ruskin	Alain-Rene Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla...	John Ruskin	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.'	John Ruskin	James Galiffe	Italy and its inhabitants: an account of a tour in that country in 1816 and 1817	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they...	John Ruskin	Captain Frederick Marryat	Diary in America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unwo...	John Ruskin	Louis Agassiz	Recherches sur les poissons fossiles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unwo...	John Ruskin	Walter Scott	Kenilworth: a romance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French rev...	John Ruskin	Sir Archibald Alison	History of Europe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.'	John Ruskin	Jacob Bryant	Treatise on the Authenticity of the Scriptures	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; ...	John Ruskin	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deu...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in...	John Ruskin	John Henry Newman	Essay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry'	John Ruskin	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friend	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read Dumas's "Essai de Statique Chimique" - clear but too short.'	John Ruskin	Jean-Baptiste Dumas	Essai de statique chimique des étres organisés	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsumm...	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	King John	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful ...	John Ruskin	W. Orme	Life and Times of Richard Baxter	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, e...	John Ruskin	W. Orme	Life and Times of Richard Baxter	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin...	John Ruskin	Allan Cunningham	Life of Sir David Wilkie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin...	John Ruskin	Allan Cunningham	Lives of eminent British painters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour...	John Ruskin	Plato	Phaedrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'	John Ruskin	Sir Archibald Alison	History of Europe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[chemistry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v...	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v...	John Ruskin	Gustav Friedrich Waagen	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Italian]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin...	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin...	John Ruskin	Pliny	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin...	John Ruskin	Alexis François Rio	De la Poesie chretienne dans son principle, dans sa matiere at dans ses formes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'	John Ruskin	Gustav Friedrich Waagen	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Italian]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.'	John Ruskin	Gustav Friedrich Waagen	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read some Greek'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Greek]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipat...	John Ruskin	E.V. Rippingille [ed.]	Artist's and Amateur's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len...	John Ruskin	E.V. Rippingille [ed.]	Artist's and Amateur's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Art Union	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.'	John Ruskin	Robert Southey	Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.'	John Ruskin	E.V. Rippingille	Artist's and Amateur's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.'	John Ruskin	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read first number of Owen's "mammalia" in the evening.'	John Ruskin	Richard Owen	Fossil Mammalia	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read some Sir Joshua"	John Ruskin	Sir Joshua Reynolds	The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of "Clouds".'	John Ruskin	Aristophanes	Clouds, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Witness	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.'	John Ruskin	Aristophanes	Clouds, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'	John Ruskin	Edmund Spenser [?]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'	John Ruskin	Richard Hooker [?]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read a little Sir Joshua'	John Ruskin	Sir Joshua Reynolds	The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tr...	John Ruskin	J.S. Davenport	Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church	Print: tract
	1800-1849	'I have been reading Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the "Guardian". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that sett...	John Ruskin	George [?] Berkeley	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember ou...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contr...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, "quali dal vento &c." (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the mo...	John Ruskin	Dante Alighieri	Inferno	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wantin...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies,...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too imp...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease ...	John Ruskin	George Herbert	[poems]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease ...	John Ruskin	Henry Vaughan	[poems]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painfu...	John Ruskin	George Smith	Hints for the times
	1800-1849	'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after l...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Acts)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I staid in and read Byron'	John Ruskin	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System o...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Revelations)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the A...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4:...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Proverbs)	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions abou...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II....	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, ...	John Ruskin	John Charles Ryle	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new c...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Genesis)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek ...	John Ruskin	William Bell Scott	[memoir David Scott]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".'	John Ruskin	Sir John Gardner Wilkinson	Egypt	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.'	John Ruskin	St Bede	An Ecclesiastical History of the English People	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in margi...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Christian Year	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Channing on Napoleon'	John Ruskin	W.E. Channing	Remarks on the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "La dame aux cheveux gris" all the evening to my mother.'	John Ruskin	Henriette Cabrieres	La dame aux cheveux gris	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicat...	John Ruskin	Hans Christen Andersen	[tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as ...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Journal pour tous	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Reading "La Petite Fadette" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and pass...	John Ruskin	George Sand	La Petite Fadette	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.'	John Ruskin	George Sand	Le peche de M. Antoine	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it...	John Ruskin	George Sand	Le peche de M. Antoine	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading "Francois le Champi" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and...	John Ruskin	George Sand	Francois le Champi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'4th Book of Plato's "Republic" at beginning, p. 420.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.'	John Ruskin	Xenophon	Memorabilia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".'	John Ruskin	Xenophon	Memorabilia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias"	John Ruskin	Alexandre ` Dumas	La Dame aux Camélias	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: "O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avan...	John Ruskin	Gaullieur	Histoire de Geneve	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Begin "Republic" for conclusive work'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Go on with "Republic", Book 1.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read to end of p. 269.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read to end of p. 270.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read only Geology'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[geology]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[geology]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur...	John Ruskin	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read geology'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[geology]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read to children under tree.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Daily Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read "Anne Babi".'	John Ruskin	Jeremias Gotthelf	Anne Babi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson...	John Ruskin	William Wordsworth	The Excursion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read "Anne Babi" to my mother in evening'	John Ruskin	Jeremias Gotthelf	Anne Babi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mama up again, read nice bits of "Anne Babi" to her after dinner'	John Ruskin	Jeremias Gotthelf	Anne Babi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.'	John Ruskin	anon	Dorothea Trudel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'	John Ruskin	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Bleak House" in evening'	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Psalter	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.'	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	Henry IV Part I	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Lady of Glynne" in evening.'	John Ruskin	Julia Cecilia Stretton	Lady of Glynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'finished "Lady of Glynne".'	John Ruskin	Julia Cecilia Stretton	Lady of Glynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Pleasant tea and "Nigel", but I much depressed all the afternoon.'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Fortunes of Nigel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Chess and "Quentin Durward".'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Quentin Durward	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water" &c. to "These make ready".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Finished "Quentin Durward"'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Quentin Durward	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Began "Tour de Jacob" again.'	John Ruskin	Jeremias Gotthelf	Tour de Jacob	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 61st Psalm'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'37th Psalm in evening!'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Ivanhoe" to end in evening.'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Jean Ingelow'	John Ruskin	Jean Ingelow	[poems?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.'	John Ruskin	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	Lady Audley's Secret	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible o...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the gist of "Ecce Homo".'	John Ruskin	J.R. Seeley	Ecce Homo	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".'	John Ruskin	Maria Edgeworth	Ormond	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[life of Lord Byron]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to the...	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Looked at Mrs Browning's "last poems" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judge...	John Ruskin	Elizabeth Barret Browning	[poems]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[geology]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[history]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Then rested, and read Topffer's "Nouvelles Genevoises" - excellent talk but no "nouvelles".'	John Ruskin	Topffer	Nouvelles Genevoises	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise...	John Ruskin	George Sand	Mademoiselle de Merquem	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This morning, reading "Lady of Glynne".'	John Ruskin	Julia Cecilia Stretton	Lady of Glynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[poems]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening'	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read of Empress Theodora'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[history]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read economy of 12th century'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[history]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa...	John Ruskin	John James Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Opened 3rd of Tobit'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Tobit)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Took up Renan's "St Paul" as I was dressing, and read a little. A piece of epistle in smaller type caught my eye as I...	John Ruskin	Ernest Renan	St Paul	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Fortnightly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (John)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Michael Angelo's "Pastoral".'	John Ruskin	Michael Angelo	Pastoral	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read chief part of Helps' "Conquerors of the New World".'	John Ruskin	Sir Arthur Helps	Conquerors of the New World	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[advertisement]	Print: Advertisement
	1850-1899	'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Luke)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.'	John Ruskin	John James Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26'	John Ruskin	John James Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ecclesiastes)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Roman de la rose [?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Began "Friedrich" to purpose and worked well.'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday hard at "Friedrich", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some "Frederick" in spite'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Rouen missal with advantage'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday ... Worked at "Frederick".'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday hard work on "Frederick"'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"Friedrich".'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Foster's essays.'	John Ruskin	John Foster	[essays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Roman de la rose [?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Glad to get back to my Testament'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer ...	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verse]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Today, much helped by my brown book'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is ...	John Ruskin	Voltaire [pseud.]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.'	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	American Notes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read from 8th to 12th of the 103rd Psalm and thought how true they would seem to me, if read in their precise negative'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read half of first Jeremiah. What does he mean by: "I am a child"?'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read story of Johanan the son of Kareah, Jerem. XLII, XLIII, XLIV.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read first vision of Ezekiel.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Then read 64th Isaiah.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold o...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read piece of St John. "Before Abraham was, I am." The closing verse - "passing through the midst of them" - in its v...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (John)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the story of Asa - how intensely ill written and uselessly in Kings!'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Kings)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read pieces of the story of Jehoram and Ahaziah, the two sons of Ahab. Note that II Kings I. 17 would be entirely wro...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Kings)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the contingent promises to Solomon: conf. to Jeroboam. 1st Kings IX. 2, 4; XI. 38.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Kings)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me", and conf. V. 13.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ecclesiastes)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Amos)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the wonderful 51st of Jeremiah. Recollect vv. 5, 7, 17, 21-23, 63.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Psalm LI. 15; XVII. 1 and 15.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read chapter of Heliodorus.'	John Ruskin	Heliodorus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read II Esdras XIV to XV.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read lessons and psalms for the day to her.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.'	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	[ghost story]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Isaiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Moschele's life]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ecclesiastes)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and "The Wisdom...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Psalter	Manuscript: Codex, editor's note: an illuminated manuscript belonging to Ruskin
	1850-1899	'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Si...	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 6...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Munera	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was'	John Ruskin	Adam Smith	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At "Rip Van Winkle" in evening, and much enjoyed it'	John Ruskin	Washington Irving	Rip Van Winkle	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Genesis)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read part of Abbot Samson in evening. The pilgrimage to Rome!'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	Past and Present	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Marmion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Old Mortality	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyl...	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.'	John Ruskin	Allan Kardec [pseud.]	Experimental Spritism	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Numbers)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Psalter	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Mark)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Mark VIII. 33 to end again.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Mark)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'finally concluding in reading a French novel'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[French novel]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of t...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Deuteronomy)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Expectans expectavi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Mariegola	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'19th Psalm."	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Corinthians)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really ...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Matthew)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequen...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Daniel)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Terribly difficult bit of Plato'	John Ruskin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Ariadne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, love...	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misle...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Romans)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.'	John Ruskin	George Sand	Marquise de Villemer	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Ezekiel 34th'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Genesis)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my fi...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Corinthians)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Wa...	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	[notes]	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him'	John Ruskin	Horace	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.'	John Ruskin	Cardinal Wiseman	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	Deucalion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Job)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.'	John Ruskin	Cuthbert Collingwood	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife aski...	John Ruskin	Machiavelli	Florence	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Hosea XII. 7-9'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Corinthians)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.'	John Ruskin	anon	Darkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new age	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	World	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o...	John Ruskin	Octave Feuillet	La Petite Comtesse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o...	John Ruskin	G. Baker	[Gladstone]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Psalter	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'I up to coffee, reading "Omar Khayyam".'	John Ruskin	Edward Fitzgerald	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.'	John Ruskin	Isaac Taylor	Natural History of Enthusiasm	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Sir T. More in evening'	John Ruskin	Sir Thomas More	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Roma Sotternea	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Esdras)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Pall Mall Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Rest in room and discovered "History of Fair Rosamond".'	John Ruskin	anon	History of Fair Rosamond	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible de...	John Ruskin	Charles Dickens	Dombey and Son	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.'	John Ruskin	Froude	Carlyle	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	Vicar of Wakefield, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'	John Ruskin	Oliver Goldsmith	Citizen of the World, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Fortunes of Nigel	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Aladdin	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his hear...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Chronicles)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Deuteronomy)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Proverbs)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before ...	John Ruskin	Horace-Bénédicte de Saussure	Voyage dans les Alpes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before ...	John Ruskin	Andrea Alciati	Emblems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee'	John Ruskin	Maria Edgeworth	Harry and Lucy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Daily Telegraph	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle "French Revolution") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	French Revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two gi...	John Ruskin	Blanche Roosevelt	Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Peter)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[French novel]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".'	John Ruskin	William Shakespeare	As you like it	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.'	John Ruskin	Sir Walter Scott	Abbot, The	Print: Book

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