''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elwood's, Capt. Crichton's autobiography by Dean Swift. ... William Gifford's account of himself is somewhat conceited and pragmatical, yet natural and manful. I have a deep and secret sympathy with Gifford.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book
'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of poetry...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... In poetry, ... the Baviad and the Maeviad ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone Print: Book
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir of Ben Jonson; Forster also notes that 'Lord Macaulay has written "Very Good" in the margin of the copy at Wallington'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaissance-period texts, by William Gifford in his Memoir of Ben Jonson; Forster also notes that 'Lord Macaulay has written "Very Good" in the margin of the copy at Wallington'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 23 October 1795, 'Have you seen the Mæviad? the poem is not equal to the former production of the same author — but the spirit of panegyric is more agreable than that of satire & I love the man for his lines to his own friends. there is an imitation of Otium Divos very eminently beautiful. Merry has been satyrized enough too much & praised too much — his taste is debauched but he is a man of Genius.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation of Juvenal is one of the best versions ever made of a classical author and his Satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashd at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugd the world long enough [goes on to comment further, and to reproduce two six-line passages from 'Ode to the Rev. John Ireland,' from the Maeviad].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation of Juvenal is one of the best versions ever made of a classical author and his Satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashd at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugd the world long enough [goes on to comment further, and to reproduce two six-line passages from 'Ode to the Rev. John Ireland,' from the Maeviad].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainments and many excellent qualities. The translation of Juvenal is one of the best versions ever made of a classical author and his Satire of the Baviad and Maeviad squabashd at one blow a set of coxcombs who might have humbugd the world long enough [goes on to comment further, and to reproduce two six-line passages from 'Ode to the Rev. John Ireland,' from the Maeviad].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
