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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Diary entry, April 6, 1832: "I have been reading Pindar’s 9th Olympiad, & must go back to it. Pindar’s subjects are of little interest to my mind"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarNinth Olympian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, April 17, 1832: "Read the two last Olympic odes today, - except a few lines of the last but one. The very last, to the Graces, is most harmonious & beaut...Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarOlympian OdesPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, April 19, 1832: "Wrote to Mr. Boyd about the parallel passage in Synesius & Anacreon, - & nearly went thro’ the whole of the first & Second pythian odes....Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst and second Pythian odesPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 447. April, 19th, 1832: "I have looked over the first Pythian again. The finest passage in it, is longer than Synesius’s ninth hymn"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst Pythian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849‘I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of Pindar...I have not found the former very difficult, any further than as deep thinking and conceal’d c...Hartley Coleridge Pindar[unknown]Print: Book, university set text
1850-1899Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of ...Andrew Lang PinnockHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899"I had Plato in my pocket & intermittently read through the Protagorus - as well as I could - which lasted me till Bristol & I hope improved my Greek."Leslie Stephen PlatoProtagorusPrint: Book
1800-1849'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; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoThe Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides and Timaeus of PlPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodorus and Euthydemus should have been mistaken for wisdo...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of this solemn ridicule as Plato."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverting than this dialogue. It is not only richly humorou...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine about the community of women and the exposure of ch...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, even when arguing against it."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: "This passage does Plato great honour. Philhellenis...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "This is indeed a noble dream. Pity that it should c...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book


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