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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'Mary Shelley HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the II book of Horace & read Montaigne'Mary Shelley HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato'Mary Shelley HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 1st book of Horace's Odes'Mary Shelley HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'Mary and Percy Shelley HoraceFirst EpistlePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Horace with S in the evening'Mary and Percy Shelley Horace[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'This day has been a most unpleasant one all except the earlier part of the morning when I read your favo...Robert Southey HoraceOdes 4:4Print: Book
1700-1799Robert 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 ...Robert Southey HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'I have been reading Eheu fugaces & your translation this moment together. the three last stanzas are certai...Robert Southey HoraceOdes, 2:14Print: Book
1700-1799'He [Matthew Pilkington] was one Winter's Evening reading [italics] Horace [end italics], and said he would engage to write an Ode exactly in his Manner; so he directly s...Matthew Pilkington HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1700-1799'The following Ode of [italics] Horace [end italics] bearing some Similitude to my then present Circumstances, I took the Liberty of paraphrasing and sent it to my husban...Laetitia Pilkington HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1700-1799'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 com...Samuel Johnson HoraceArs PoeticaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes accord...Samuel Johnson HoraceArs poeticaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes accord...John Wilkes HoraceArs poeticaPrint: Book
1700-1799'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [italics] Eheu fugaces [italics]. He said, the dispute...Samuel Johnson HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason to believe that, my Lord. Are we to think Pope was ...Jonathan Shipley Horace Print: Book
'He [Johnson] said, "the lyrical part of Horace never can be perfectly translated; so much of the excellence is in the numbers and the expression. Francis has done it the...Samuel Johnson Horace[Odes]Print: Book
'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who wanted Johnson's opinions on his literary works]; u...Samuel Johnson HoraceCarmen SeculareManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his retur...Samuel Johnson Horace[ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequensPrint: Book
1700-1799'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every thing but religion". SEWARD. "He speaks of his retur...Mr Seward Horace[ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequensPrint: Book


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