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
THE FRAGMENTS OF LUCILIUS literally translated into English Prose ...
by L. Evans, 1848.
=LUCRETIUS= (=TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS=). _b._ 95, _d._ 52 B.C. =Latin
poet.=
AN ESSAY ON THE FIRST BOOK OF T. LUCRETIUS CARUS, with a metrical
Version and Notes, by John Evelyn, Esqre., 1656.
LUCRETIUS DE RERUM NATURA, with a free prose English version, 1743.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS. _Tr._ into English verse by Thomas Creech,
1683.
Influence of Lucretius seen in Pope's 'Essay on Man'. Formed
favourite reading of Shelley, Wordsworth and Tennyson.
Dyer's 'Fleece' and Akenside's 'Pleasures of the Imagination'
are the outcome of the study of Lucretius and the 'Georgics' of
Virgil.
=LUTHER, MARTIN.= _b._ 1483, _d._ 1546. =Leader of the Reformation in
Germany.=
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER, now first _tr._ from the original by
Rev. J. P. Lawson, 1836.
A BOKE MADE BY A CERTAYNE GREAT CLERKE AGAYNST THE NEW IDOLE AND OLDE
DEVYLL, WHICH OF LATE TYME IN MISNIA SHOULD HAVE BEN CANONISED FOR A
SAYNT, 1534.
COLLOQUIA MENSALIA (TABLE TALK), OR DIVINE DISCOURSES AT HIS TABLE,
ETC., collected first together by Dr. A. Lauterbach.... _Tr._ out of
High German ... by Captn. Henrie Bell, 1652.
A FRUITEFULL AND GODLY EXPOSITION AND DECLARACION OF THE KYNGDOM OF
CHRIST. _Tr._ by [W. Lynne], 1548.
M. LUTHER'S EXPOSITION OF THE 23RD PSALM. _Tr._ by Miles Coverdale,
1537.
ON THE CHIEFE ARTICLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAYTHE, ETC. _Tr._ 1548.
THIRTIE-FOUR SPECIAL AND CHOSEN SERMONS, ETC., Englisshed by W. Gace,
1581.
A TREATISE TOUCHING THE LIBERTIE OF A CHRISTIAN. _Tr._ by J. Bell,
1579.
'As a translator of the Bible into the Upper-Saxon dialect, and
as having thus fixed the modern German language, he is of the
greatest importance to Germany itself. To us his value is that
of a thinker or moral force'.
=LYSIAS.= 4th century B.C. =Greek orator.=
ORATIONS OF LYSIAN AND ISOCRATES, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIVES,
AND A DISCOURSE ON THE HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CHARACTERS OF THE
GREEKS. _Tr._ John Gillies, 1778.
=MABINOGION.=
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE. _Ed._ and _Tr._, Mabinogion, fr. Llyfr Coch o
Hergest and other MSS. 3 v. 1838-49.
=MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO DI BERNARDO DEI.= _b._ 1469, _d._ 1527.
=Italian statesman, diplomatist and writer.=
THE ARTE OF WARRE, set forth in English by Peter Whitehorne, with an
addicion of other like Marcialle Feates and Experiments, 1560.
A DISCOURSE UPON THE MEANES OF WEL GOVERNING AND MAINTAINING IN GOOD
PEACE, A KINGDOME OR OTHER PRINCIPALITIE ... AGAINST N. MACHIAVELLL
[By I. Gentillet]. _Tr._ by S. Patericke, 1602.
THE FLORENTINE HISTORIE. _Tr._ by T(homas) B(edingfield), 1594.
NICOLAS MACHIAVELL'S PRINCE. Also, THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO OF LUCCA.
AND THE MEANES DUKE VALENTINE US'D TO PUT TO DEATH V. VITELLOZZO,
ETC. _Tr._ by E(dward) D(acres), 1640.
WORKS. _Tr._ by Henry Nevile, 1675.
Of the works of M., 'The Prince' was the most widely read.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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