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Anacreon
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Anacreon : Odes of Anacreon
"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the Odes of Anacreon, ..."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cooper Print: Book
Anacreon : [odes]
'read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Print: Book
Anacreon : [Odes]
'Read 3 odes of Anacreon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Anacreon :
'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amusement, "not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesiod; but in this irregular manner (added he) I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the university that he had ever known come there".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
Anacreon :
'I wrote to him, begging to know the state of his health, and mentioned that Baxter's "Anacreon", "which is in the library at Auchinleck, was, I find, collated by my father in 1727, with the MS. belonging to the University of Leyden, and he has made a number of Notes upon it. Would you advise me to publish a new edition of it?".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book
Anacreon : Dove
''15:Jan: 1778 Mr Johnson told me today that he had translated Anacreon's Dove, & as they were the first Greek Verses that had struck him when a Boy; so says he they continue to please me as well as any Greek Verses now I am Three score'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
Anacreon : Anacreon to himself
'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given]
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