'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palate still down.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I think so) the best poem that ever was wrote.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pleasure, and a fine day - reading over the second part of "The Seige of Rhodes" with great delight.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys Print: Book
Sunday, 12 February 1826;
'Read a few pages of Will d'Avenant who was fond of having it supposed that Shakespeare
intrigued with his mother. I think the pretension can only be treated as Phaeton's was
according to Fielding's farce [Tumbledown Dick].
'"Besides by all the village boys I'm sham'd,
You the Sun's son, you rascal? -- you be damnd."
'Egad I'll put that into Woodstock.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
