Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Ovid

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799"Late in life, W[ordsworth] remembered that he discovered Ovid before Virgil: 'Before I read Virgil I was so strongly ...William Wordsworth OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosi...Tom Barclay Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where...R.E. Prothero OvidTristia IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities....Mark Grossek Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdi...John Drummond Erskine OvidMetamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan BaileyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it. He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can unde...Hilary Spalding Ovid[poetry]Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle...Samuel Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle...Elizabeth Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'the Storry [of Philemon and Baucis] pleases mee, none in Ovide soe much. I remember I cryed when I read it, mee thoug...Dorothy Osborne OvidMetamorphosesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I am getting on very well with Ovid.'Robert Louis Stevenson OvidunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg...Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some lines of Ovid before breakfast'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de...Mary Godwin and Thomas Jefferson Hogg OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de...Percy Bysshe Shelley OvidMetamorphoses - story of MyrrhaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (T...Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphoses (3rd fable)Print: Book
1800-1849'read the 4th and 5th fables of Ovid'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphoses (4th and 5th fables)Print: Book
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her R...Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ...Percy Bysshe Shelley OvidMetamorphoses (vii)Print: Book
1800-1849'read over the Ovid to Jefferson'Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Sh...Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read Spenser - read over the ovid to Jefferson & construe about ten lines more - read Spenser (10 Canto ...Mary Godwin OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'Mary Shelley Ovid[unknown]Print: Book

 

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