Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Miguel Cervantes

 

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1700-1799"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at...William Wordsworth Miguel de Cervantes SavedraDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw...Philip Inman Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Transcribed from title page to edition of Don Quixote in 30 May 1813 letter from William Wordsworth to Basil Montagu:...William Wordsworth Miguel CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i...John Taylor Miguel de Cervantesprobably Don QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ...Wil John Edwards Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...James Hanley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciat...Frederick Rogers Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on ...Edward Trelawny Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...James Lackington Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote (probably)Print: Book
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794 'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a...Elizabeth Smith Miguel de CervantesDon QuixottePrint: Book
1850-1899'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see...Arthur Symons Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: ...Elizabeth Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay...Thomas Jefferson Hogg Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th...Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1600-1699'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how pe...Samuel Pepys Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Persiles & Sigismunda'Mary Shelley Miguel de CervantesLos rabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia septentrionalPrint: Book
1800-1849'Don Quixote & Calderon'Mary Shelley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h...Virginia Woolf Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a...W.H.(Bill) Tilman Miguel (de) CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ...Janet Case Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A...Tennyson children (boys)Miguel de CervantesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the spring of 1831 my father was much distressed about the condition of his eyes and feared that he was going to l...Alfred Tennyson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die...Samuel Johnson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b...Charles Causley Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: 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 CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...Alfred Rawlings Miguel de CervantesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...Helen Rawlings Miguel de CervantesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...Katherine Evans Miguel de CervantesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...Reginald Robson Miguel de CervantesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...Mary Robson Miguel de CervantesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...Charles Stansfield Miguel de CervantesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ...Joseph Conrad Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote Print: Book

 

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