Evidence: | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that to die is gain, even if death were nothing more than an untroubled and dreamless sleep]: "Milton thought otherwise" [Macaulay quotes the lines "Sad cure! For who would lose,/Though full of pain, this intellectual being;/ Those thoughts that wander through eternity?"] "I once thought with Milton; but every day brings me nearer and nearer the doctrine here laid down by Socrates." |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 May 1837 and 31 Dec 1839 | ||||||||||
Country: | India | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Calcutta | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Oct 1800 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Historian and critic |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | India |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Plato |
Title: | Gorgias |
Genre: | Classics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | The edition published in Frankfort, 1602, with a parallel Latin translation by Marsilius Ficinus |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 1635 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
Title: | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 438-9 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 438-9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1635, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
This entry records Macaulay's later experience of reading the Gorgias, while a government official in Calcutta. |
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