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Lucretius
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Lucretius : unknown
'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; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
Lucretius : unknown
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for Lucretius: '[Lady Oxford] is an adept in the text of the original (which I like too); and when that booby Bus[by] sent his translating prospectus, she subscribed. But, the devil prompting him to add a specimen, she transmitted to him a subsequent answer, saying that, "after perusing it, her conscience would not permit her to remain on the list of subscribers."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Oxford Print: Book
Lucretius : De Rerum Natura
'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapter 1 of the Politique positive; Guest on English Rhythms, Maurice's Lectures on Casuistry'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.] Print: Book
Lucretius : De Rerum Natura
'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
Lucretius : de Rerum Natura
'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Lucretius : de Rerum Natura
'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Lucretius : [unknown]
'S. reads Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Lucretius : [unknown]
'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley Print: Book
Lucretius : [unknown]
'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and Percy Shelley Print: Book
Lucretius : [unknown]
'Finish 4th book of Lucretius. Ricciardetto'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lucretius : [unknown]
'Muratori - Greek - finish Lucretius'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
Lucretius :
'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile of sweetening the edges of a cup for a child, being transferred from Lucretius into an epick poem. The General said he did not imagine Homer's poetry was so ancient as is supposed, because he ascribes to a Greek colony circumstances of refinement not found in Greece itself at a later period, when Thucydides wrote. JOHNSON. "I recollect but one passage quoted by Thucydides from Homer, which is not to be found in our copies of Homer's works; I am for the antiquity of Homer, and think that a Grecian colony, by being nearer Persia, might be more refined than the mother country.".'
