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Ovid : Metamorphoses

"Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly attached to Ovid, whose Metamorphoses I read at school, that I was in quite a passion, whenever I found him, in books of criticism, placed below Virgil.'"

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Ovid : [unknown]

'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in secondhand schooltexts of Ovid, Juvenal and Catullus: though he knew no Latin beyond the Mass, the English notes offered plenty of background on the filthy loves of gods and goddesses".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Barclay      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Tristia IV

'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin literature. Strangely enough, I have come across it here. It is in Ovid ("Tristia" IX. 10.51)

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: R.E. Prothero      Print: Book

  

Ovid : [unknown]

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'"). There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan Bailey

[Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdita' in the margin; p. 479 the text 'Quin etiam blandas movere per aera cauda' is asterixed with in the margin 'In the lioness this is the mark of anger'. The inside back cover has a note in Latin 'posterior .... supe ... mens ... priores' with a sketch of foliage above which may or may not be connected.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Drummond Erskine      Print: Book

  

Ovid : [poetry]

'I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it. He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can understand it!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thought they were the perfectest Characters of a con[ten]ted marriage . . .'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Osborne      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

  

Ovid : unknown

'I am getting on very well with Ovid.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassins - Gibbon Chap. LXIV - all that can be known of the assassins is to be found in Memoires of the Acad[e]my of Inscriptions tom. xvii p127-170'.[end italics]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg     Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'read some lines of Ovid before breakfast'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbon (vol 12 - 364) and the story of Myrrha in Ovid'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg     Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses - story of Myrrha

'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit des Nations (72). S. reads Pastor Fido (102) and Gibbon (vol 12 - 364) and the story of Myrrha in Ovid'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses (3rd fable)

'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (To recollect the life of Rienzi - Fortifiocca)[end italics]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses (4th and 5th fables)

'read the 4th and 5th fables of Ovid'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her Read Voltaire's Essay on the Spirit of Nations'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses (vii)

'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid 90 lines - S & C. read Ariosto - 7th Canto. M. reads Voltaire p. 126.'[end italics]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'read over the Ovid to Jefferson'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Ovid : Metamorphoses

'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto of 4 book)'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Ovid : [unknown]

'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

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