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Quintus Curtius Rufus

 

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Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'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: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

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

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [letters]

'Read ten pages of Quintius Curtius and Rousseau's reveries'.

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

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

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'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: Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley     Print: Book

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis'

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Curtius and work - Read the memoirs of the Prinsse of Bareith aloud.'

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'

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

  

Quintus Curtius Rufus : [unknown]

'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'

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

 

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