Evidence: | Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to read ...The marks on the outer margin are copied from his Dindorf edition." MS dates of reading: April 13 1917 and Jan 16 1923. "Finished --- on the 30th Jan 1923 - the day on which a more exulted culprit than Midias was brought to account. How these masterpieces grow upon one's appreciation at each reading! I am now just halfway between 84 and 85; - nearly 70 years since I read the Midias for the first time." P.125: "Macaulay gave the the Meidias to read while I was at Harrow. His choice of books which he lent me while at school is significant. The Meidias, the Gorgias, the Plutus of Aristophanes, Quintus Curtius, Dialogues of the Dead of Lucian. When I was preparing for the Gregory Scholarship examination he gave me Juvenal with a translation on the opposite side." |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1917 and 1923 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | Cambo Northumberland Wallington Hall |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | George Otto Trevelyan |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 20 Jul 1838 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Historian and statesman |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Demosthenes |
Title: | in Midiam |
Genre: | Classics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Cambridge: University P., 1906 |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 22599 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | MS notes in book cited below, |
Citation: | MS notes in book cited below, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22599, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
I have not transcribed all the notes in this book |
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