Nymphidia: The Court of Fairy

Nymphidia: The Court of Fairy

Drayton, Michael. ed. Sir Egerton Brydges

Kent: Johnson & Warwick, 1814

1814

"July 16. Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius." Diary 1861-1877 136

Drayton, Michael. ed. Sir Egerton Brydges, Nymphidia: The Court of Fairy, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57592

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