Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Livy

 

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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 ...Thomas Babington Macaulay LivyunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay LivyPrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. LivyRomanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, begi...John Mitchel Livy[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...'Thomas Green LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Livy[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Livy[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'In the evening read Livy - p.385 2nd vol. - 1/2 1200p in 17 days desultory reading.' [end italics]Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb...Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis...Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849[italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics]Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae...Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe Condita [probably]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'.Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAd Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'Mary Godwin LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ...Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Livy'Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi and Dante - S. finishes Livy'Percy Bysshe Shelley LivyAb urbe conditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a...Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaUnknown
1800-1849'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Livy'Mary Shelley LivyAb Urbe ConditaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'John Ruskin LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wild...Oscar Wilde LivyRoman HistoryPrint: Book

 

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