I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious to think of his Diary extending over nearly the same time as Walpole?s Letters, which, you know, are a sort of Diary. What two different Lives, Pursuits, and Topics!
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book
Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly Juvenal's Satire upon Nobility - or rather parts of it. How far the choice of a Subject might be influenced by the run at that time against Aristocracy, I am unable to say ... '
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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838:
'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon Wrangham and I amused ourselves in imitating jointly Juvenal's Satire upon Nobility - or rather parts of it. How far the choice of a Subject might be influenced by the run at that time against Aristocracy, I am unable to say ... '
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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Wrangham
I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to him my discovery of the magnificent verses in which Juvenal bids observe how the world's two mightiest orators [Cicero and Demosthenes] were brought by their genius and eloquence to a violent and tragic death.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book
'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in secondhand schooltexts of Ovid, Juvenal and Catullus: though he knew no Latin beyond the Mass, the English notes offered plenty of background on the filthy loves of gods and goddesses".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Barclay Print: Book
'Read the 13th satyr of juvenal with J. Fendall as he is to be lectured on it the first term at Trinity Hall'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book
'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least planned, a methodical course of study, according to computation, of which he was all his life fond, as it fixed his attention steadily on something without, and prevented his mind from preying upon itself. Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides' Tragedies, of the Georgicks of Virgil, of the first six books of the Aeneid, of Horace's Art of Poetry, of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, of some parts of Theocritus, and of the tenth satire of Juvenal; and a table, shewing at the rate of various numbers a day (I suppose verses to be read), what would be, in each case, the total amount in a week, month, and year'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Unknown
'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,--
"Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano",
and so on to the end of the tenth satire; but in running it quickly over, he happened, in the line,
"Qui spatium vitae; extremum inter munera ponat",
to pronounce supremum for extremum; at which Johnson's critical ear instantly took offence, and discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse, he shewed himself as full as ever of the spirit of the grammarian'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr Brocklesby Print: Unknown
'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,--
"Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano",
and so on to the end of the tenth satire; but in running it quickly over, he happened, in the line,
"Qui spatium vitae; extremum inter munera ponat",
to pronounce supremum for extremum; at which Johnson's critical ear instantly took offence, and discoursing vehemently on the unmetrical effect of such a lapse, he shewed himself as full as ever of the spirit of the grammarian'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Unknown
Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Juvenal, 'Vnto the wiser Gods the care permit'.
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton Print: Book
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have read 12 Satires of Juvenal with a vast deal of pleasure — the 8th is the only one which my head (desirous of levelling all to my system) has imitated — but as I have no wish to fall under the inquisitorial jurisdiction of our new Star chamber — to lose my hand nose & ears like Lilburne or the Englishman whom Elizabeth punishd for writing against her intended marriage with Anjou — or to run away like Ridgeway — my poor imitation must lie in my desk.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'I have read all Juvenal with pleasure it is a manly stile more adapted to me than the sly sarcasms of Horace but I have no time for more church is ready & I go to hear a sermon very probably about right divine sedition & impiety which last are always linked together in the pulpit.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
