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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, luminous and full of interest; but the Epicurean theory...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe Natura DeorumPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument against the credibility of visions and prophecies.Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe DivinationePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse, et illos sui...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each successive speech of Cicero form a continuous history o...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSpeechesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "Poor fellow! He makes a pitiful figure. But it is i...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLetters to AtticusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all its fame."Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSecond PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier speeches have a freedom and an air of sincerity about...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroThird PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, except that I am more disgusted with his conduct after ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLast PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat...John Cole CiceroLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Saltmarshes had done dinner. Read a few pp. of a transl...Anne Lister CiceroOn/the book of old agePrint: Book
1700-1799'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, whe...Frances Burney Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'George Eliot [pseud] CiceroDe OfficiisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rather think I left off because I read nothing and had ...Charles Greville CiceroSecond PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begi...Percy Bysshe Shelley CiceroCato Maior de SenectutePrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begi...Percy Bysshe Shelley CiceroParadoxa StoicorumPrint: Book
1500-1599In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philologist Hegendorff's writings on law logic, and of the ...Gabriel Harvey CiceroTopicaPrint: Book
1500-1599Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum T...Print: Book
1500-1599Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February] 1570 and some in 1579.'Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum T...Print: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes that in Gabriel Harvey's 1563 copy of Cicero, "Epistolae ad Atticum" 'The glossary is divided [by Harvey, using characteristic shorthand symbols a...Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum. Ad M. B...Print: Book


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