Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: John Milton

 

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1800-1849'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'P...John Clare John MiltonPrint: Book
1850-1899'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sne...J.R. Clynes John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness / 'When I consider how my light is spent...'[transcript of text]Emma Bowly John MiltonSonnet XIX When I consider how my light is spentUnknown
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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonParadise Lost: a poem in twelve booksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci...Christopher Thomson John MiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin...Joseph Barker John MiltonPrint: Book
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'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros...Samuel Bamford John MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
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'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros...Samuel Bamford John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ...William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the...anon John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during Octob...William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Siste...Dorothy Wordsworth John Milton[sonnets]Unknown
1800-1849'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Para...William Wordsworth John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with...Joseph Barker John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...Janet Hamilton John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of...George Gordon Lord Byron John MiltonSabrina FairPrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog...Joseph Malaby Dent John MiltonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh...Elizabeth Blackburn John MiltonLycidasPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonParadise Lost (Book I)Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 February, 1802: 'After tea I read aloud the eleventh book of Paradise...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonParadise Lost (Book XI)Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802, 'Wm. wrote two sonnets on Buonaparte, after I had read Milt...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonsonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, in entry for Thursday 3 June 1802, 'A very affecting letter came from M[ary]. H...Dorothy Wordsworth John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonsonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear...Philip Gibbs John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal...Lloyd George John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
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?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...Leslie Stephen John MiltonPrint: Book
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' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...Constance Maynard John MiltonSonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...Frances Power Cobbe John MiltonComplete poetryPrint: Book
1600-1699"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poe...Henry Wotton John MiltonA Mask Presented at Ludlow CastlePrint: Book
1600-1699"One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C1...anon John MiltonParadise Regain'd/Samson AgonistesPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell John MiltonPrint: Book
1850-1899[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'.Edward Davy Harrop John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...Allen Clarke John Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was...John Masefield John Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge...Victor Sawdon Pritchett John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her s...[unknown] Jebb John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. In the even read the 9th book of "Paradise Lost".'Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the 10th book of "Paradise Lost" in the even.'Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. In the even read the 11th and 12th books of "Paradise Regained", which I think is much inferior for ...Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799'in the Even Tho. Davy at our House to whom I read the 4th Book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".'Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read the 6th book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".'Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read the 12th and last book of Milton's "Paradise Lost", which I have now read twice through and in my op...Thomas Turner John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'I wish you would cannonade this N[ewto]n. I cannot bear, that another of Apollo's genuine Offspring should pass down ...Samuel Richardson John MiltonParadise LostPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the doo...Harriet Martineau John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ...Thomas Burt John MiltonAeropagiticaPrint: Book
1850-1899?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence...Thomas Burt John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with bene...Mary Wollstonecraft John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'We read "Paradise Lost" in Gen. English & I tried to look enthusiastic, but I really can't appreciate Milton. He's s...Hilary Spalding John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to ...Hilary Spalding John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown...Samuel Bamford John Milton[miscellaneous poems]Print: Book
1800-1849?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did...Samuel Bamford John Milton[miscellaneous works]Print: Book
1700-1799'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious ...Thomas Carter John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...Thomas Carter John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ...Thomas Burt John Milton[various]Print: Book
1800-1849'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ...Christopher Thomson John Milton[various titles]Print: Book
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'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...Christopher Thomson John MiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...Charles Shaw John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'The first scene is the Lamentation of Sampson [sic] which possesses much pathos of sublimity ... I think this is beau...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
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'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev...Lady Caroline Lamb John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, in reflections on reading (1798): 'When I read "Paradise Lost," I am no more able to conceive the powers o...Mary Berry John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads a part of Comus aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonComus (A mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 8 June 1811: 'Went to Lady Cork's. A curious party, where, by way of something to do, she had [J...John Thelwall John Milton'Invocation to Light'Print: Book
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'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ...Anna Seward John Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849 'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day;...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke and Captain BoothbyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849 'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole p...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guestsJohn MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and comment...Sir James Mackintosh John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [......Mr Perry John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [......Mr Perry John MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [......Harriet Martineau John MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [......Harriet Martineau John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening Miltons letter to Mr Hartlib on educations'.Mary Godwin John MiltonOf Education. To Master Samuel HartlibPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s...Elizabeth Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l...Elizabeth Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Twould make a Paradise of Hell-- & fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]'Lady Caroline Lamb John MiltonParadise LostUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonPoems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and LatinPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonA Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of John MiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. a little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides'William Windham John Milton[poetry]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'To Love thou blam'st me not; for love thou say'st/Leads up to Heaven/ is both the way and guide/...' 'Milton'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJohn MiltonParadise Lost, Book VIIIUnknown
1800-1849'Milton's sonnet on his Blindness "When I consider howmy light is spent"'Bowly groupJohn MiltonSonnet OR When I consider how my light is spentUnknown
1800-1849'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite re...Charles Lamb John Milton[poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a mis...Benjamin Shaw John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" bette...John Clare John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two...Norman Nicholson John Milton[unknown works]Print: Book
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...Thomas A. Jackson John Milton[poems complete works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of "Paradise lost"'Albert Battiscombe John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899'. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'.Alexander (Rex) Ewing John MiltonParadise Lost [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Spent most of the day reading the "Paradise Lost"; I was quite delighted with it'.Harriet Wynne John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and su...Thomas Green John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...'Thomas Green John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in...Thomas Green John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That th...William Blake John MiltonParadise Lost, vii, 29-30Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
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Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasg...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John Milton[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849"Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in/childhood & shew'd me his face./Ezra came with Isaiah the Proph...William Blake John MiltonunknownUnknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin John MiltonParadise Lost
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin John MiltonAreopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd PrintingPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin John MiltonLycidas
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonAreopagitica: a Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonLycidasPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go...Percy Bysshe Shelley [John] Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'Percy Bysshe Shelley [John] Milton[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gr...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] John MiltonParadise lostPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world'Mary Shelley John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...Mountstuart Elphinstone John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...Mountstuart Elphinstone John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...Mountstuart Elphinstone John Milton[Latin poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.Thomas Carlyle John MiltonProse worksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -...Mary Shelley John MiltonTenure of Kings and Magistrates, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S walks - & reads I book of Paradise Lost in the evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Gibbon a[nd] 2 book of Paradise Lost.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Oct. 28th. [...] I walk out by myself about Kentish Town -- Read Comus.'Claire Clairmont John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'.Claire Clairmont John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go away in a coach at 1...Claire Clairmont John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton'L'Allegro'Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton'Il Penseroso'Print: Book
1800-1849'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] a little of 1st C...Claire Clairmont John MiltonParadise Lost (Book I)Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.'Claire Clairmont John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S....Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise...Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age th...Elizabeth Barrett John MiltonParadise Lost (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of texts read by both herself and Shelley in 1819. All texts are mentioned in journal ent...Mary and Percy ShelleyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together with Shakespeare ...Elizabeth Barrett John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Paradise Regain[e]d aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Paradise regained aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Milton on divorce'Mary Shelley John MiltonDoctrine and Discipline of Divorce, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'Mary Shelley John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes'Mary Shelley John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats' annotated copy of "Paradise Lost"]: 'The Genius of Milton, more particularly in respect to its s...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on "The Argument"]: There is a greatness which the "Paradise ...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openin...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phras...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 318-21]: Keats underlines the line 'To slumb...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'th...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'An...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 2, lines 546-61]: Keats underlines the following: the...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
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'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
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'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...Sarah Harriet Burney John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
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'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...[Miss] Wilbraham John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
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'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...[Miss] Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
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'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...Elizabeth Wilbraham John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
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'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...Elizabeth Wilbraham John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
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Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under...Virginia Woolf John Miltoncomplete worksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec...Adam Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,...Miss V[-] John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ...Janet Case John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impres...Virginia Woolf John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how ...Laetitia Pilkington John MiltonComus: A MasquePrint: Book
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i...Laetitia Pilkington John MiltonIl PenserosoPrint: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917: 'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ...Edward Morgan Forster John MiltonUnknown
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson, aged twelve, to his aunt Marianne Fytche: 'You used to tell me that you should be obliged to me if...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: 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)John MiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Following Hallam Tennyson's description of his mother's attendance of her younger sister as bridesmaid in May 1836] ...Emily Sellwood John MiltonComusPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonPrint: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri...Alfred and Emily TennysonJohn MiltonPrint: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen John MiltonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi...Samuel Johnson John MiltonTractate: Of Education
1700-1799'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre...Samuel Johnson John MiltonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre...Hannah More John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre...Hannah More John Milton[Sonnets]Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ...Dr Collier John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ...Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apolloni...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'.John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountab...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and line...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 1-5] Keats underlines the lines: "O for that w...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that ...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 6, lines 58-9] Keats underlines "reluctant flames, the ...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 7, lines 420-34] Keats underlines the phrase "With clan...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 41-7]: 'Had not Shakespeare liv'd?'John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excludi...John Keats John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly ...Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send...Hester Lynch Salusbury John MiltonPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus...Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonComus: A MasquePrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Shakespeare and Milton [...] he read aloud by preferen...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonParadise Lost (book IV)Print: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...Hester Lynch Thrale John Milton'L'Allegro'Print: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...Hester Lynch Thrale John Milton'Il Penseroso'Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaJohn MiltonPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793: 'On Wednesday morning about eight o clock we sallied forth. my trave...Robert Southey John MiltonPro Populo Anglicano Defensio Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic...Robert Southey John Milton ‘The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I’ Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807: 'This morning I got up betwe...Lady Harriet Cavendish John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbour...Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella MilbankeJohn MiltonPrint: Book
1800-1849'There was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M...Anne Isabella Milbanke and Captain BoothbyJohn MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...Charles Stansfield John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730: 'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments...Aaron Hill John MiltonProse writingsPrint: Unknown

 

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