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Livy
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Century of Experience
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Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group
Author of Text
Title of Text
Form of Text
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
Livy
unknown
Print
: 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
Livy
Print
: Book
1500-1599
Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read...
Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr.
Livy
Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidia
Print
: 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
Livy
History of Rome
Print
: 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
Livy
History of Rome
Print
: Book
1800-1849
[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Livy
History of Rome
Print
: 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
Livy
History of Rome
Print
: 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
Livy
History of Rome
Print
: Book
1800-1849
[italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Livy
History of Rome
Print
: 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
Livy
Ad Urbe Condita [probably]
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Livy
Ad Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Livy
Ad Urbe Condita
Print
: 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
Livy
Ad Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'
Mary Godwin
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'
Mary Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis'
Mary Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'
Mary Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Finish 3rd Book of Livy - Read 3rd act of the Aminta'
Mary Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: 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
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.
Mary Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'S reads Livy'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Finish Corinne & 7th Book of Livy - S reads Corinne'
Mary Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Read Sismondi and Dante - S. finishes Livy'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Livy
Ab urbe condita
Print
: 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
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
Mary Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Unknown
1800-1849
'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'
Mary Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1800-1849
'Finish Livy'
Mary Shelley
Livy
Ab Urbe Condita
Print
: Book
1850-1899
'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'
John Ruskin
Livy
History of Rome
Print
: 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
Livy
Roman History
Print
: Book
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)