The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English LiteratureHarris, William James
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The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics: A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature
Harris, William James
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THE BOKE OF FRIENDSHIP, _see the above_, Tullius de Amicicia.
THE CHOSEN ELOQUENT ORATIONS FOR THE POET ARCHAIS, selected from his
Orations and now first published in English, 1571.
DE ORATORE. _Tr._ by G. P(arry), 1723.
DE REPUBLICA. Scipio's Dream, or the Statesman's Extasie. Tending to
prove the immortalitie of the Soul as the proper merit of Justice.
[_Tr._ by E.G.S.] 1627.
THE FAMILIAR EPISTLES. (Epistolæ ad Familiares). _Tr._ by J. Webbe,
1570.
LETTERS: SELECTIONS. A very necessary entrance to speaking and
writing the Latin Tongue. _Tr._ by T. W. 1575.
ORATIONS ... Pro M. MARCELLO. The oration which Cicero made to Cæsar
giving thanks to him for pardoning M. Marcellus. _Tr._ 1555.
THE ORATIONS OF M. TULLIUS CICERO. _Tr._ ... with notes ... 1745-52.
THE THREE BOOKES OF TULLYES OFFYCES, BOTHE IN LATYNGE TONGE AND IN
ENGLYSSHE, lately translated by Roberte Whytinton, 1534.
THOSE FYUE QUESTIONS WHICH MARKE TULLYE CICERO DISPUTED IN HIS MANOR
AT TUSCULANUM. _Tr._ by John Dolman, 1561.
TULLY'S FIVE BOOKS DE FINIBUS. Translated by S. P. Gent. (Saml.
Parker), revised by J. Collier ... with an apology for the
Philosophical Writings of Cicero, by Henry Dodwell. 1702.
TULLY'S THREE BOOKS TOUCHING THE NATURE OF THE GODS. (De Natura
Deorum.) 1683.
Orators and preachers of the 17th and 18th centuries based
their style upon Cicero. He formed what is known as the
'Johnsonian' style. Burke, Fox, Pitt and Gladstone modelled
themselves on Cicero.
'It is not too much to say that the highest eloquence of Italy,
France and England has at all times striven to be Ciceronian.'
=CID.= _b._ 1040, _d._ 1099. =Spanish hero.=
The Moorish appellation of a celebrated Castilian hero, who was
born at Burgos about 1040, and whose proper name was Rodrigo
or Ruy Diaz de Bivar. He was also surnamed Campeador ('the
Champion'). A poem of which the Cid is the subject, composed by
'the Homer of Spain', an author whose name is unknown.
=CID ROMANCES.=
The most important of the Cid literature is the poem written
about the 12th cent., and probably the oldest document in the
Spanish language.
GIBSON, J. YOUNG. _Tr._ THE CID BALLADS, [AND OTHER POEMS]. _Ed._
Margaret D. Gibson. 2 v. 1887.
LEWIS, G. _Tr._ THE CID BALLADS. 1883.
LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON. _Tr._ ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS. Historical and
Romantic. 1823.
[Contains ballads afterwards omitted.]
ORMSBY, JOHN. _Tr._ POEMS OF THE CID. 1879.
SOUTHEY, R. _Tr._ AMADIS OF GAUL. 1872.
SOUTHEY, R. _Tr._ CHRONICLES OF THE CID. [Prose.] 1808.
Translated from three books, (1) 'Chronica del Cid', (2)
'Chronica Genera de España', (3) 'Poema del Cid' (composed, c.
1135-75).
=CODEX EXONIENSIS=: Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. _Ed._ Benj.
Thorpe, with _tr._, 1842.
Also under =Anthologies, General=, and =Exeter Book=.
=CODEX VERCELLENSIS=, Anglo-Saxon Poetry of the. Ed. J. M. Kemble, 2
pts., with _tr._, 1843-56.
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