Evidence: | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-21 January 1793: 'I do not know in the annals of history & barbarity any character which I so much abhor as that of the vain the vile Augustus — the death of Cicero the banishment of Ovid — the black boys & the incestuous daughter the total suppression of liberty these are blots which all the art of Flattery cannot hide from the eye of Reason. “With the same hand & probably with the same frame of mind did he sign the proscription of Cicero & the pardon of Cinna” — you remember Gibbons remark upon Augustuss appearance at the banquet in that very elegant piece of the virtuous Julian.'
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 13 Jan 1793 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Robert Southey |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 12 Aug 1774 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | Edward Gibbon |
Title: | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
Genre: | History |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | London, 1788. 12 vols. |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 24129 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | "The Collected Letters of Robert Southey," Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, Letter 40. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters. Accessed 21 April 2009. , |
Citation: | "The Collected Letters of Robert Southey," Romantic Circles Electronic Edition, Letter 40. http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters. Accessed 21 April 2009. , http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24129, accessed: 07 December 2023 |
Source eds note that a copy of the edition cited was in Southey's library - see "Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons", gen. ed. A. N. L. Munby, vol. 9 "Poets and Men of Letters", ed. Roy Park (London, 1974), p. 138. |
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