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Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg : 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

Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg : 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

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