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Pliny

 

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Pliny : Epistolarum

"W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters which you have express'd when I read them many years ago.'"

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Pliny the Younger : [unknown]

'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and were world famous novels in abridged form, but sixty or seventy pages. And W.T. Stead brought out the Penny Poets. The covers of these were pimply surface-paper, a bright orange colour, and they contained selections from Longfellow, Tennyson, Keats, and many others. I first read "Hiawatha" and "Evangeline" in the Penny Poets and thought them marvellous; so marvellous that I began to write 'poetry' myself. Stead also brought out another penny book; this had a pink cover and contained selections from the ancient classics: stories from Homer, the writings of Pliny the younger, Aesop's "Fables". I took a strong fancy to Aesop, he was a Greek slave from Samos, in the sixth century BC, and workpeople were only just beginning to be called "wage slaves". I read all these; non-selective and Catholic my reading...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Book

  

Pliny : [letters]

'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and reads Pliny's letters'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Pliny : [letters]

'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Pliny : [Letters]

'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Pliny : [Letters]

'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Pliny : [Letters]

'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - after dinner we go up to Diodati but return soon - I read Curt. with Shelley and finish the 1st vol. after which we go out in the boat to set up the baloon but there is too much wind. We set it up from the land but it takes fire as soon as it is up - I finish the Reveries of Rousseau. Shelley reads and finishes Pliny's letters. & begins the panegyric of Trajan'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Pliny : [Letters]

'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plato'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Pliny : [Letters]

'Read Pliny.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Pliny : [Letters]

'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Pliny : [unknown]

'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

 

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