√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | 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 have... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 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 hav... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 hav... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 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 | Pindar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Callimachus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Apollonius Rhodius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Quintus Calaber | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Thucydides | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Xenophon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Plato | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Aristotle | Politics | Print: Book |
| 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 | Aristotle | Organon | Print: Book |
| 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 | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 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 | Lucian | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Athenaeus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Aeschylus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Pindar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Terence | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Lucretius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Catullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Albius Tibullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Sextus Propertius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Lucan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Silius Italicus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | '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 | Velleius Paterculus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Sallust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Caesar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Cicero | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 | Aristophanes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the ch... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Monk | Biography of Richard Bentley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | ' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | Seventh Idyll | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | The Alchemist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, in... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is ver... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, f... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Horace | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1800-1849 | 'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, wit... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jonathan Swift | Essay on the Fates of Clergymen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Edward Gibbon | Vindication | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Conyers Middleton | Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise". | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | 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 | Hesiod | | 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 | Athenaeus | | 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 | Cato | | 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 |
| 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 | Sallust | | 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 | Tacitus | | 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 | Aulus Gellius | | 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 | Suetonius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Academic Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Tusculan Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, lum... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Natura Deorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument ag... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Divinatione | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Cicero | Tusculan Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each suc... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Speeches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Letters to Atticus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all i... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Second Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier s... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Third Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, exc... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Last Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: 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 | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: 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 | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: 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 | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter]. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [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 | Plato | Gorgias | Print: 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 | Plato | Gorgias | Print: 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 | Plato | Gorgias | Print: 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 | Plato | Gorgias | Print: 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 | Plato | Gorgias | Print: 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 | Plato | Gorgias | Print: 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 | Plato | Gorgias | Print: 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 | Plato | Crito | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Ann Fraser Tytler | Leila: or, The Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | Catherine Sinclair | Holiday House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m... | Grace Macaulay | | The Wave and the Battlefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the e... | Grace Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Mary Louisa Molesworth | The Cuckoo Clock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Chaplet of Pearls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp... | Grace Macaulay | Frederick Marryat | The Settlers in Canada | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp... | Grace Macaulay | Wilhelm Hey | Funfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig Fabeln | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".' | Grace Macaulay | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Walter Scott | The Talisman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Robert Michael Ballantyne | Coral Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Edgar Allan Poe | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Prince and the Page | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson' | Rose Macaulay | Johann David Wyss | Swiss Family Robinson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ... | Rose Macaulay | Alfred Lord Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ... | Rose Macaulay | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Ch... | Rose Macaulay | Thomas a Kempis | On The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro... | Rose Macaulay | John Stuart Mill | probably 'On Liberty' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro... | Rose Macaulay | Ernest Renan | Life of Jesus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ... | Rose Macaulay | Richard Hakluyt | Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ... | Rose Macaulay | Joseph Addison | [probably The Spectator] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers bound as volume? |
| 1900-1945 | '[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ... | Rose Macaulay | n/a | Oxford English Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Milner | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Xenophon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Fenelon | Dialogues of the Dead | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and wit... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Boccacio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from t... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | " ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a v... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Joseph Milner | History of the Church of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s "Allemagne". The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds wi... | Hannah Macaulay | Germaine de Stael | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.? | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Robert Southey | Thalaba | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Elizabeth Montague | [essay on Shakespeare] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | History of James I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was alwa... | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This day I finished Thucydides, after reading him with inexpressible interest and admiration. He is the greatest his... | Lord Macaulay | Thucydides | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: 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 | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.' | Lord Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.
The second in January and the begin... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834
The second in January and the beginn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834
The second in January and the beginn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A con... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | T. J. Mathias | Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confes... | | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [..... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy (Titus Livius) | History of Rome Book XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Gifford | Memoir of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859:
'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alfred Tennyson | Guinevere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859:
'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alfred Tennyson | The Maid of Astolat | Print: Book |