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
Literature -- Translations into English -- Bibliography
MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS RELATING TO NATURAL HISTORY, HUSBANDRY AND
PHYSICK. _Tr._ from the Latin by B. Stillingfleet, 1759.
PRINCIPIA BOTANICA: OR A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO THE SEXUAL BOTANY OF
LINNÆUS. _Tr._ 1787.
REFLECTIONS ON THE STUDY OF NATURE. _Tr._ [by J. E. Smith] 1785.
=LISLE, C. J. ROUGET DE.= _b._ 1760, _d._ 1836. =French poet.=
MARSEILLAISE. (1792.) _Tr._ 1793.
=LIVY= (=TITUS LIVIUS=). _b._ 59 B.C., _d._ 17 A.D. =Roman historian.=
THE HISTORIE OF ... ANNIBALL AND SCIPIO. _Tr._ out of T. Livius and
other authoures, 1544.
THE ORATOR: HANDLING A HUNDRED SEVERALL DISCOURSES, ETC. Some of the
Arguments being drawne from T. Livius and other ancient writers, 1596.
THE ROMANE HISTORIE. Also the Breviaries of L. Florus, with a
chronologie of the whole Historie, and the Topographie of Rome in the
Old Time. _Tr._ by P. Holland, 1600.
=LONGUS.= 5th century. =Greek sophist.=
DAPHNIS AND CHLOE. _Tr._ by Angel Day [1587].
'This pastoral romance played no small part in the conception
of the French sentimental romances of the seventeenth century,
beginning with D'Urfé and carried on by Scudéry and La
Calprenède. This work contains the new element of pastoral
setting and description, and some novelty of simple sentiment'.
_Tr. by Day from Amyot's tr._
=LOTI, PIERRE. Louis Marie Viaud.= _b._ 1850.
MADAME CHRYSANTHÈME. _Tr._ L. Ensor, [1888].
RARAHU; or, THE MARRIAGE OF LOTI. _Tr._ C. Bell, 1890.
MY BROTHER YRÈS. _Tr._ M. P. Fletcher, 1887.
AN ICELAND FISHERMAN. _Tr._ 1888.
CHILD ROMANCE. _Tr._ C. Bell, 1891.
PHANTOM FROM THE EAST. _Tr._ J. E. Gordon, 1892.
BOOK OF PITY AND DEATH. _Tr._ T. P. O'Connor, 1892.
ROMANCE OF A SPAHI. _Tr._ M. L. Watkins, 1890.
=LUCAN.= _b._ 39, _d._ 65. =Roman epic poet.=
LUCAN'S FIRST BOOK OF THE CIVIL WAR BETWEEN POMPEY AND CÆSAR.
_Translated_ line for line by Chas. Marlowe, 1600.
PHARSALIA. Containing the Civill Warres between Cæsar and Pompey.
=Tr.= into English verse by Sir Arthur Gorges, Kt.... 1614.
Lucan and 'Stace' (Statius) formed the chief Latin reading of
Chaucer's time. Addison's 'Campaign', and Drayton's 'Barons'
War' are also clearly influenced by Lucan.
=LUCIAN.= _b._ 125, _d._ 180. =Greek author.=
CERTAIN SELECT DIALOGUES OF LUCIAN, TOGETHER WITH HIS TRUE HISTORIE.
_Translated_ by F. Hicks. Also a Life of Lucian gathered out of his
own writings. By F. H[ickes], 1634.
NECROMANTIA: a Dialog of the Poet Lucyan for the Tantsaye Faymyd for
a mery Pastyme. _Tr._ [1537].
PLEASANT DIALOGUES AND DRAMMA'S SELECTED OUT OF LUCIAN, ERASMUS, ETC.
_Tr._ by Thos. Heywood, 1637.
THE WORKS OF LUCIAN. _Tr._ by Ferrand Spence, 1684.
Influenced Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', 'Tale of a Tub' and
'The Battle of the Books' and the works of Sterne. Sterne is
sometimes known as the 'English Lucian'.
=LUCILIUS, GAIUS.= _b._ 148 B.C., _d._ 100 B.C. =Roman satiric poet.=
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