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1450-1945

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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 PlatounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoThe Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides and Timaeus of PlPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of t...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not kn...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter].Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what te...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Ca...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek l...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Noth...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socra...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoCritoPrint: Book
1700-1799'... C[oleridge]was reading Plato during the mid-1790s ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoParmenidesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge PlatoTimaeusPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent PlatoThe RepublicPrint: Book
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Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is n...John Ruskin PlatoDeath of SocratesPrint: Book
1850-1899"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out eno...Leslie Stephen PlatoPrint: Book
1850-1899?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along sl...Leslie Stephen PlatoPrint: Book
1850-1899"I had Plato in my pocket & intermittently read through the Protagorus - as well as I could - which lasted me till Bri...Leslie Stephen PlatoProtagorusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...Charles Spencer Chaplin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.'Sir Walter Raleigh PlatoBanquetPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the terrace in the evening he would read Plato aloud, especially the "Phaedo", the final pages of which never fail...Lord Alfred Milner PlatoPhaedoPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ...James Lackington PlatoOn the immortality of the soulPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'George Eliot [pseud] PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet...John Stuart Mill PlatoEuthyphroPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet...John Stuart Mill PlatoTheaetetusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet...John Stuart Mill PlatodialoguesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Plato - Republic'George Eliot [pseud] PlatoRepublic,ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 18th September ?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman) I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues...Gerald Moore Xenophon/PlatoSocratic DiscoursesPrint: Book
1800-1849'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial...John Mitchel PlatoDialoguesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate en...Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -...Percy Bysshe Shelley Plato[several works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoConviviumPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and H...Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it'Mary Shelley PlatoSymposiumManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'S. reads ye Phaedrus of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoPhaedrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'Mary Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so data...Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoApology of SocratesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S finishes Phaedrus'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoPhaedrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Pla...John Buchan PlatounknownPrint: Book, scholarly edition
1850-1899'[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe...George Gissing Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The spasmodic study of Plato, whose "Apologia" and "Meno" I was reading for Pass Mods., certainly did nothing to disc...Vera Brittain Plato'Apologia' and 'Meno'Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have bee...Robert Southey PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour...John Ruskin PlatoPhaedrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v...John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin...John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'4th Book of Plato's "Republic" at beginning, p. 420.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Begin "Republic" for conclusive work'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Go on with "Republic", Book 1.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read to end of p. 269.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read to end of p. 270.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur...John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Terribly difficult bit of Plato'John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, love...John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved<...

Alfred Rawlings PlatoThe RepublicPrint: Book
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'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved<...

Janet Rawlings PlatoThe RepublicPrint: Book
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'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved<...

Charles E. Stansfield Plato‘Allegory of the Cave’ from Book 7 of The RepublicPrint: Book
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'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved<...

Thomas C. Elliot PlatoPhaedo [The account of Socrates' death]Print: Book

 

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