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Seneca : tragedies

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the opening lines of the intended tragedy of Sardanapalus.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

Seneca : tragedies

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, and some other books.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

Seneca : [unknown]

[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]

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

  

Seneca : [unknown]

'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.

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

  

Seneca : [unknown]

'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.

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

  

Seneca : [unknown]

'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Shelley reads seneca every day & all day (308)'.

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

  

Seneca : Epistulae morales, 23, 4

Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, a Meditation on Seneca's maxim 'verum gaudium res severa est' (Epistulae morales, 23, 4), headed 'sen. Res severa et verum gaudium'.

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

 

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