Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Xenophon

 

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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 XenophonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..."Thomas Cooper XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge XenophonXenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the defence oPrint: Book
1800-1849'Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very un...Elizabeth Zenophon [Xenophon]unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ...George Gordon Lord Byron XenophonRetreat of the Ten ThousandPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- r...George Gordon Lord Byron XenophonRetreat of the Ten ThousandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Xenophon[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...John Stuart Mill XenophonCyropaediaPrint: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...John Stuart Mill XenophonMemorials of SocratesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be...John Stuart Mill XenophonThe AnabasisPrint: 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'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea...Thomas Carlyle XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'Percy Bysshe Shelley XenophonMemorabilia SocratisPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.Percy Bysshe Shelley XenophonMemorabilia socratisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ...Laetitia Pilkington XenophonSymposiumPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] Xenophon observes, in his "Treatise of Oeconomy", that if every thing be kept in a c...Samuel Johnson Xenophon OeconomicusPrint: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] He apprehended that the delineation of character...Samuel Johnson XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.'John Ruskin XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".'John Ruskin XenophonMemorabiliaPrint: Book

 

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