'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
[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
Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae historiae principis, in Harvey's copy], the story of Hannibal, in one week in 1570-71 ... Harvey records that they read along with Livy the military authors Vegetius and Frontinus, and that they did so critically ..."
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. Print: Book
'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, beginning, indeed, to feel myself at home in the "Tenedos" - for I have been ten days on board - when Dr Hall entered my cabin in a violent hurry, accompanied by a negro boatman.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Book
'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
[italics] 'In the evening read Livy - p.385 2nd vol. - 1/2 1200p in 17 days desultory reading.' [end italics]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibbon - We read and are delighted with Lara - the finest of Lord B's poems. S. reads Lara aloud in the evening. [end italics]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosisse 556. 2 vol. Maie says that if we had met the Emperor Julian in private life he would have appeared a very ordinary man The fables of Aesop in Greek. - Boethius consolation of philosophy - how in the reign of Theodoric [underlined] a Christian? [end underlining] gr - Lord Bacon's works - Gibbon likes Boethius - [end italics] Mary reads Gibbon (100).'
[italic text is by PBS, non-italic by MG]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
[italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol. of Livy. [end italics]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - S finishes Livy (p920 vol 3.) & 1/2 past 12 at night'.[end italics]
[& a mistake for at??]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'S reads Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Sismondi and Dante - S. finishes Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley
'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish Livy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wilde was still at Portora. It is full of marginal notes dealing with linguistic matters.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde Print: Book
