'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
'C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependent upon the copy of Schmied's edition (Wittenberg, 1616) now in the Wisbech Museum and Literary Institute ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency" of the works of Peter Pindar because of "the amusement I derive from them".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Unknown
'Took Pindar's "Tales of Hoy" to the library; I think it much inferior to most of his other publications which I have seen. Corinna's "Epitaph", which I have transcribed is however one of his prettiest productions. Brought the 1st vol of "Remains of Living Authors".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Unknown
'written by Peter Pindar, at Merton, the seat of the late Lord Nelson, onhis catching a nightcap on fire, which his lordship had lent him'.
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux
Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, and most original in this respect, that I know not that ever any other object at once excited my contempt and admiration. His humour is most peculiar, most unaffected, most irresistible. Yet, for what end Providence entrusted a weapon so dangerous in the hands of one who avows his disregard to everything sacred and venerable, is very difficult for us to conjecture ?[continues comments]
[footnote]*Peter Pindar, a witty, but low, and mischievous writer of verses.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book
'Shelley reads P.[eter] Pindars works aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As an instance of the niceness of his taste, though he praised West's translation of Pindar, he pointed out the following passage as faulty, by expressing a circumstance so minute as to detract from the general dignity which should prevail:
"Down then from thy glittering nail, Take, O Muse, thy Dorian lyre.'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
Diary entry, June 27, 1831:
"I read Pindar's first Olympic today -& thought of tomorrow – tomorrow’s fatal decisive letter."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Diary entry, January 21, 1832:
"Read the 7th Olympic ode – about Agesias, & Rhodes"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Diary entry, March 1, 1832:
"In the evening I read a part of Pindar’s 8th Olympic. And de Genlis’s story of Delphine in the
Tales of the castle, which I like because it puts me in mind of being as happy as I was when I
read it first."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Diary entry, April 6, 1832:
"I have been reading Pindar’s 9th Olympiad, & must go back to it. Pindar’s subjects are of little
interest to my mind"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Diary entry, April 17, 1832:
"Read the two last Olympic odes today, - except a few lines of the last but one. The very last, to
the Graces, is most harmonious & beautiful. I recollect Mr. Boyd’s repeating it to me at Great
Malvern in 1830, when I was paying him a long & happy visit. NYN D' OLWLE!! – Not the ode –
which is deathless."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Diary entry, April 19, 1832:
"Wrote to Mr. Boyd about the parallel passage in Synesius & Anacreon, - & nearly went thro’ the
whole of the first & Second pythian odes. The first is very very fine, - & there are splendid things
too in the second."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
Letter 447. April, 19th, 1832: "I have looked over the first Pythian again. The finest passage in it,
is longer than Synesius’s ninth hymn"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
‘I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of Pindar...I have not found the
former very difficult, any further than as deep thinking and conceal’d connection in a writer
always demand deep thinking and close attention in the reader: his numerous historical and
mythological allusions certainly require considerable collateral knowledge, but I think he is
rarely liable to the charge of obscurity. I am obliged to you for more correct notions of his
style and peculiar excellence than I could have gathered from the ordinary cant; certainly at
least I could discover very little of that fire and precipitation so much talk'd of in him; nor
does it seem a very reasonable supposition that frequent digressions are a sign of hurry and
ardour. Pindar many not unaptly be compared to a boy going to school, who picks every
flower by the road side, merely because his journey's end is unpleasant. ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Book, university set text
