'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
"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book
[Marginalia]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's Retreat of the Ten Thousand.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- read the "Ten Thousand" again, and will go to bed.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick
'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book
'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Ceropaedia and Memorials of Socrates; some of the lives of the philosophers by Diogenes Laertius; part of Lucian, and Isocrates ad Demonicum and ad Nicoclem.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book
'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Stuart Mill Print: Book
'Saturday 18th September
?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman)
I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues on Poetic Inspiration? for a long time and was glad to spot this'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a single book of the original - & that several years ago. Indeed I know very little of the Greek at any rate. I have several times begun to read Xenophon's anabasis completely: but always gave it up in favour of something else - You complain that nothing that you do leaves a vestige behind it: - what do you make of Homer?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in return commend to all such of my fair Readers as have a Taste for real Wit, in which the divine [italics] Socrates [end italics] as conspicuously shone, as he did in Purity of Life and Constancy in Martyrdom; that they peruse it with Care, as it will refine their Ideas and improve their Judgements, polish their Stile, shew them true Beauty, and lead them gently and agreeably to its prime Origin and Source. [LP then quotes from Milton's 'Comus' on beauty] I must here observe in my tracing Authors thro' each other, [italics] Zenophon [end italics] and [italics] Plato [end italics] borrowed from [italics] Socrates [end italics], whose disciples they were. [italics] Zenophon [end italics] acknowledges it as freely as I do the Instructions I received from Dr [italics] Swift [end italics]. Lord [italics] Shaftsbury's[end italics] Search after Beauty, is copied from [italics] Socrates [end italics]; Mr [italics] Pope's [end italics] Ethics stolen from both; and the leaned Mr [italics] Hutcheson[end italics]'s Beauty and Harmony, an Imitation of the great Philosophers and excellent Moralists first mentioned'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Book
'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] Xenophon observes, in his "Treatise of Oeconomy", that if every thing be kept in a certain place, when any thing is worn out or consumed, the vacuity which it leaves will shew what is wanting; so if every part of time has its duty, the hour will call into remembrance its proper engagement.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] He apprehended that the delineation of characters in the end of the first Book of the "Retreat of the Ten Thousand" was the first instance of the kind that was known.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
Diary entry. June 16th, 1831: "I heard Stormy & Georgie read Homer & Xenophon — as usual, —
tho’ I have not yet commemorated them here"
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Diary entry. July 9th, 1831: "After breakfast, heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon"
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Diary entry. August 8th, 1831: "I have written a letter to Papa, read the first vol: of the Last
man, which Mrs. Martin has sent me at last —& read the whole of the 8th book of Marcus
Antoninus, -& prepared some of the Seven Chiefs for Mr. Boyd, —besides hearing Storm &
George read out of Homer & Zenophon. I feel nervous all over in my hands & feet —& cant write
a word more."
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Letter 433. December 1st, 1831:
"I both Simpson’s & Hutchinson’s editions of Zenophon, the double tau takes the place of the
double sigma, — and sun of ksun."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
