| Evidence: | I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to him my discovery of the magnificent verses in which Juvenal bids observe how the world's two mightiest orators [Cicero and Demosthenes] were brought by their genius and eloquence to a violent and tragic death. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1838 and 1859 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | George Otto Trevelyan |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1838 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Biographer and politician |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Juvenal |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Classics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1662 | |
| 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: | 433 | |
| Additional comments: | Account by Trevelyan of a visit to Macaulay. |
| Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 433, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1662, accessed: 29 May 2023 | |
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