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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MITFORD, ALGERNON B. F. _Tr._ TALES OF OLD JAPAN, 1871.
=JEAN D'ARRAS, or JEHAN.= 1360. =French novelist.=
MELUSINE, 1382-1394. _Tr._ A. K. Donald, E.E.T.S., 1895.
English version in prose is of cir. 1500.
=JOINVILLE, JEAN DE.= _b._ 1224, _d._ 1319. =French chronicler.=
MEMOIRS OF JOHN LORD DE JOINVILLE ... containing a history of part of
the life of Louis IX.... _Tr._ F. Johnes. 2 v. 1807.
=JOKAI, MAURUS.= _b._ 1825, _d._ 1904. =Hungarian novelist and
dramatist.=
BLACK DIAMONDS (1870). _Tr._ 1896.
DEBTS OF HONOUR. _Tr._ by A. B. Yollond, 1900.
DOCTOR DUMANY'S WIFE. _Tr._ 1891.
EYES LIKE THE SEA. (1890.) _Tr._ R. N. Bain, 1893.
GREEN BOOK; FREEDOM UNDER THE SNOW. _Tr._ 1897.
HALIL THE PEDLAR. A fehér rozsa (1854). _Tr._ 1901.
HUNGARIAN NABOB (1856). _Tr._ 1898.
LION OF JANINA (1852). 1897.
MIDST THE WILD CARPATHIANS. _Tr._ 1894.
NAMELESS CASTLE. _Tr._ 1898.
PRETTY MICHAL (1877). _Tr._ 1892.
TIMAR'S TWO WORLDS. _Tr._ 1880.
TOWER OF DAGO. _Tr._ 1899.
=JOLYOT DE CRÉBILLON= (=CLAUDE PROSPER=). _See_ =Crébillon=.
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHIE. Alliterative Romance of, or Holy Grail: _Ed._
Prf. W. W. Skeat, 1871.
_See also under_ HOLY GRAIL.
=JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS.= _b._ 37, _d._ 95. =Jewish historian.=
THE FAMOUS ... WORKES OF JOSEPHUS. _Tr._ by T. Lodge, 1602.
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS. _Tr._ by Thos. Lodge, 1602.
=JOUBERT, JOSEPH.= _b._ 1754, _d._ 1824. =French pensée writer.=
PENSÉES OF JOUBERT. _Tr._ H. Attwell, 1877. (Edited by Châteaubriand.)
=JULIAN.= _b._ 331, _d._ 363. =Roman Emperor.=
SELECT WORKS OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN AND SOME PIECES OF THE SOPHIST
LIBANIUS. 2 v. _Tr._ 1784.
TWO ORATIONS OF THE EMPEROR J., ONE OF THE SUN, AND THE OTHER OF THE
MOTHER OF THE GODS. _Tr._ [T. Taylor] 1793.
THE ARGUMENTS OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. _Tr._ T.
Taylor, 1809.
=JUSTINIAN.= _b._ 483, _d._ 565. =Emperor of the east.=
JUSTINIAN. Englished by Sir Henry Holcroft, 1653.
This work is based upon that of Gaius, and is familiar to
lawyers under the name of Justinian's Institutes.
=JUVENAL= (=DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS=). _b._ 55 A.D. =Latin satiric
poet.=
FIFTH SATYR. _Tr._ by Geo. Chapman, 1629.
FIRST SIX SATYRS. _Tr._ by R. Stapylton, 1644.
A PARAPHRASTICAL TRANSCRIPT OF JUVENAL'S TENTH SATYRE, TOGETHER WITH
THE TRAGICAL NARRATION OF VIRGINIA'S DEATH, interserted by W. B.
(arkstead), 1617.
THE SATIRES OF D. J. JUVENALIS.... _Tr._ ... by Mr. Dryden, 1693.
SIXTEEN SATYRS, OR A SURVEY OF THE MANNERS AND ACTIONS OF MANKIND.
_Tr._ in verse by Sir R. Stapylton, 1647.
TWO FIRST SATYRS OF JUVENAL. _Tr._ by John Biddle, 1634.
Influenced Johnson in 'London' and 'Vanity of Human Wishes.' It
is Juvenal and Horace who have served as models for Dryden and
Pope for Hall and Butler, and for Byron in his 'English Bards
and Scotch Reviewers'. Churchill's Satires are Juvenal's in
spirit throughout.
=KÁLIDÁSA.= B.C. 50 (?). =Hindu poet.= '=The Shakespeare of India='.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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