| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here I am reading Virgil?s delightful Georgics for the first time. They really attune perfectly well with the plains... | Edward Fitzgerald | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesti... | Edward Fitzgerald | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the inside cover of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 2, in use during 1786-7, a faint pencil inscription survives from c.1786: ... | William Wordsworth | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manusc... | William Wordsworth | Virgil | Georgics | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819:
'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of V... | William Wordsworth | Virgil | Eclogues | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most... | Wiliam Ewart Gladstone | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on... | Anne Lutton | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aenei... | Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard Doctor Collier say [wrote Hester Thrale in undated letter] that Harry Fielding quite doated upon his Sis... | Sarah Fielding | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] | Adam Sedgwick | Virgil | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]: ms note in Latin on inside front cover may or may not be connected with the text as the book has evidenc... | William Erskine | Virgil | Works | 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 | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Virgil | Eneid | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again' | George Eliot [pseud] | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the old solitary years, a long time ago, by the shores of Canadian rapids, on the edge of West Indian swamps, his ... | Philip Gosse | Virgil | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One evening my father took down his Virgil from an upper shelf...And then, in the twilight, as he shut the volume at ... | Philip Gosse | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| | 'I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment [a marksmanship contest for the ladies of the Austrian co... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Virgil | Aeneid | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the "Aeneid". Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sub... | Thomas Green | Virgil | Aenied | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics] | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Virgil | unknown | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b... | Mary Godwin | Virgil | [unknown] | Print: 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 ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Virgil | Georgics | Print: 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 w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Virgil | [Works] | Print: 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 w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Virgil | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - 100 lines of the Georgics' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1818. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read S. the 6th & 1st book of the Aeneid' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'. | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 37 Canto - Virgil - & Perigrine Proteus' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Georgics' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Georgics - read 25th & 26th Cantos of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's reading list for 1819, an x denoting Percy having read a text too. All texts are also mentioned in the journal... | Mary Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate s[pinoza] - S reads the Aenied [sic] aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes aloud the 3rd book of the Aenied [sic] aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Begin the Georgics with S.' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Virgil | Envy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - I Book of Virgil' | Mary Shelley | Virgil | [probably] Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is it the third or the fifth book of Virgil you so much liked; I have taken to reading the third.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Virgil | The Aeneid, Books III and probably V | 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[-] | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | 8th Eclogue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | 1st Georgic | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by ... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Eclogues | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Did not Virgil mean by his Epithet [italics] Puniceis [end italics] to Rosetis in the fifth Eclogue the rose of Tyria... | Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson | Virgil | fifth Eclogue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Johnson] used to mention Harry Fielding's behaviour to her [his sister Sarah] as a melancholy instance of narrown... | Sarah Fielding | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Virgil | 'Second Eclogue' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Sup... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |