[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cato the Censor, - through Livy, and Sallust, and Tacitus, and Aulus Gellius, and Suetonius, -down to the very latest Augustan histories."
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
'Pastor Fido
Orlando Furioso
Livy's History
Seneca's Works
Tasso's Girusalame Liberata
Tassos Aminta
2 vols of Plutarch in Italian
Some of the plays of Euripedes
Seneca's Tragedies
Reveries of Rousseau
Hesiod
Novum Organum
Alfieri's Tragedies
Theocritus
Ossian
Herodotus
Thucydides
Homer
Locke on the Human Understanding
Conspiration de Rienzi
History of arianism
Ochley's History of the Saracens
Mad. de Stael sur la literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesiod; but in this irregular manner (added he) I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that noble language, and that I was desirous of being told by him what method to follow; he recommended to me as easy helps, Sylvanus's "First Book of the Iliad"; Dawson's "Lexicon to the Greek New Testament"; and "Hesiod", with "Pasoris Lexicon" at the end of it.'
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
Letter 444. March, 31st, 1832:
"I think it may be better to write directly to yourself, on the subject you enquire about.
In Theocritus—καλα εργα—ὁσσα ισατι—χαιρε Αδωᾂν αγαπατε—Idyll:15. κατατριψοντι,
ακρεσπερον—Idyll:24. in Hesiod—κλυθι ιδων—εις ωπα εϊσκειν—Κρονιωνι ανακτι—works & days.
ὑιε αναξ—ἁμα εργον—ανεφαινετο εργον—ημερα ασσον—ωκεα Ιρις—Theogony.
I have not any complete edition of either Hesiod or Theocritus; and would not write to you by
today’s post, that I might have time to borrow them. Mr Deane however, to whom I sent, is
without either. Dalzel gives very copious extracts; & these I have examined,—but I cannot find
in them, ανηρ in the right position. I will try to procure the books somewhere else,—and if I
succeed, you shall hear again from me."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print: Book
