Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Tacitus

 

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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 TacitusPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Tacitus[unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "the siege of Jerusalem" from Ta...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusSiege of Jerusalem, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Journals of Mary Shelley "M. & S. walk to the shore of the lake & read the description of the seige of Jerusalem in T...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusHistories Book VPrint: Book
1800-1849"Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.".."I we...Harriet Martineau TacitusAgricolaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'.Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusGermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".'Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusGermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there &...Percy Bysshe Shelley TacitusGermaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus'Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla...Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and the three brothers - S reads Gibbon'Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '...Jane Baillie Welsh Publius Cornelius TacitusUnknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Read Tacitus'Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'Mary Shelley TacitusAnnalsPrint: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and ...Samuel Johnson TacitusHistoriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and ...James Boswell TacitusHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] It was the perusal of Tacitus, in Murphy's translation, which first excited the idea in my mind [of...Elizabeth Hamilton TacitusAnnalsPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and mar...George Otto Trevelyan Cornelius TacitusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: 'Over the pages of the philosophic Tacitus ...Robert Southey TacitusunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26- c.29 April 1794: 'I have ventured upon the drama at last. & chosen f...Robert Southey TacitusAnnalsPrint: Book

 

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