Lives of the English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's LivesCary, Henry Francis
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Lives of the English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives
Cary, Henry Francis
Poets, English -- Biography
The following list of desiderata was found among his papers, after his
decease.
India.
The Ancient Geography of India, &c., from the Puranas.
A Botanical Description of Indian Plants, from the Cochas, &c.
A Grammar of the Sanscrit Language, from Panini.
A Dictionary of the Sanscrit Language, from thirty-two original
Vocabularies and Niructi.
On the ancient Music of the Indians.
On the Medical Substances of India, and the Indian Art of Medicine.
On the Philosophy of the Ancient Indians.
A Translation of the Veda.
On Ancient Indian Geometry, Astronomy, and Algebra.
A Translation of the Puranas.
Translation of the Mahabharat, and Ramayan.
On the Indian Theatre, &c. &c.
On the Indian Constellations, with their Mythology, from the Puranas.
The History of India, before the Mohammedan Conquest, from the Sanscrit
Cashmir Histories.
Arabia.
The History of Arabia before Mohammed.
A Translation of the Hamasa.
A Translation of Hariri.
A Translation of the Facahatal Khulafa. Of the Cafiah.
Persia.
The History of Persia, from authorities in Sanscrit, Arabic, Greek,
Turkish, Persian, ancient and modern.
The five Poems of Nizami, translated in prose.
A Dictionary of pure Persian--Jehangiri.
China.
Translation of the Shi-cing.
The Text of Con-fu-tsu, verbally translated.
Tartary.
A History of the Tartar Nations, chiefly of the Moguls and Othmans, from
the Turkish and Persian.
By an unanimous vote of the East India Company Directors, it was
resolved, that a cenotaph, with a suitable inscription, should be raised
to his memory in St. Paul's Cathedral; and that a statue of him should
be sent to Bengal, for the purpose of being placed there in a proper
situation.
A monument has also been erected to his memory in the anti-chapel of
University College, Oxford, by Lady Jones, with the following
inscription:
M. S.
Gulielmi Jones equitis aurati,
Qui clarum in literis nomen a patre acceptum
Magna cumulavit gloria.
Ingenium in illo erat scientiarum omnium capax,
Disciplinisque optimis diligentissima exculturn.
Erat indoles ad virtutem eximia,
Et in Justitia, Libertate, Religione vindicanda
Maxime probata.
Quicquid autem utile vel honestum
Consiliis, Exemplo, Auctoritate vivus promoverat,
Id omne scriptis suis immortalibus
Etiam nunc tuetur atque ornat.
Praestantissimum hunc virum,
Cum a provincia Bengala,
Ubi judicis integerrimi munus
Per decennium obierat,
Reditum in patriam meditaretur,
Ingruentis morbi vis oppressit,
X. Kal. Jun. A. C. MDCCLXXXXIV. Aet. XLVIII.
Ut quibus in aedibus
Ipse olim socius inclaruisset,
In iisdem memoria ejus potissimum conservaretur,
Honorarium hoc monumentum
Anna Maria filia Jonathan Shipley, Epis. Asaph.
Conjugi suo, B. M.
P. C.
To the name of poet, as it implies the possession of an inventive
faculty, Sir William Jones has but little pretension. He borrows much;
and what he takes he seldom makes hotter. Yet some portion of sweetness
and elegance must he allowed him.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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