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Pindar

 

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Pindar : 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

  

Pindar : 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

  

Pindar : Carmina

'C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependent upon the copy of Schmied's edition (Wittenberg, 1616) now in the Wisbech Museum and Literary Institute ... '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

Peter Pindar : [unknown]

'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency" of the works of Peter Pindar because of "the amusement I derive from them".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]      Print: Unknown

  

Peter Pindar : Tales of the Hoy, interspersed with song

'Took Pindar's "Tales of Hoy" to the library; I think it much inferior to most of his other publications which I have seen. Corinna's "Epitaph", which I have transcribed is however one of his prettiest productions. Brought the 1st vol of "Remains of Living Authors".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Unknown

  

Peter Pindar : Lines to Lord Nelson

'written by Peter Pindar, at Merton, the seat of the late Lord Nelson, onhis catching a nightcap on fire, which his lordship had lent him'.

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux     

  

Peter Pindar : [Poems]

Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, and most original in this respect, that I know not that ever any other object at once excited my contempt and admiration. His humour is most peculiar, most unaffected, most irresistible. Yet, for what end Providence entrusted a weapon so dangerous in the hands of one who avows his disregard to everything sacred and venerable, is very difficult for us to conjecture ?[continues comments] [footnote]*Peter Pindar, a witty, but low, and mischievous writer of verses.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]      Print: Book

  

Peter Pindar [pseud.] : Works

'Shelley reads P.[eter] Pindars works aloud'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Pindar : [poems]

'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

Pindar : Odes

'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As an instance of the niceness of his taste, though he praised West's translation of Pindar, he pointed out the following passage as faulty, by expressing a circumstance so minute as to detract from the general dignity which should prevail: "Down then from thy glittering nail, Take, O Muse, thy Dorian lyre.'"

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

 

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