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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, 28 October 1792: '"Ille & nefasto te posuit die,/ Quicumque primum, & sacrilega manu/ Produxit, arbos, in nepotum/ Perniciem." ...Robert Southey HoraceOdes, 2:13Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi monumentum" into that language[.]' George Gordon Lord Byron HoraceOde ("Exegi monumentum")Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hints from Horace] ... The Horace I found in the conve...George Gordon Lord Byron HoraceDe Arte PoeticaPrint: Book
1800-1849Branwell Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 27 June 1840: 'I have ... striven to translate 2 books [of Horace] ... the first of which I have presumed to send you ...'Patrick Branwell Bronte Horace Print: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...Mary Ward HoraceEpistlesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These may or may not be related to the text. On various p...John Drummond Erskine HoraceQuinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et no...Print: Book
1850-1899'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.'George Eliot (pseud) HoraceThe Art of Poetry an Epistle to the PisosPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...Mary Augusta ward Horace Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the "1st Epistle of Horace", Lib. 2 (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus) with the aid of Dacier's notes, and Hurd's Commentary...'Thomas Green HoraceEpistola ad Augustum, annotated by Richard HurdPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Hurd's "Commentary on Horace's Art of Poetry"...'Thomas Green HoraceArt of Poetry, annotated by Richard Hurd,Print: Book
1850-1899'I send you three translations of a bit of Horace, in order to hear what you think of the last measure.'Robert Louis Stevenson HoraceBook II Ode IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'read two odes of Horace'Mary Godwin Horace[odes]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'Mary Godwin Horace[odes]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; all Horace once over and many part...Mountstuart Elphinstone Horace[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes o...Mary Godwin HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'Mary Godwin HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 1st ode of Horace - Aristippe'Mary Shelley Horace[1st Ode]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.Mary Shelley Horace[3rd Ode]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - GIbbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'Mary Shelley Horace[Odes 6 and 7]Print: Book
1800-1849'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley Horace[Odes]Print: Book


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