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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BABOUC; or, THE WORLD AS IT GOES. _Tr._ 1754.
CANDIDUS; or, ALL FOR THE BEST. (1756.) _Tr._ 1759.
_One of the 'Philosophical Romances'._
CRITICAL ESSAY ON DRAMATIC POETRY. _Tr._ 1760.
DEFENCE OF LORD BOLINGBROKE'S LETTERS; ON THE STUDY AND USE OF
HISTORY. _Tr._ 1753.
ESSAY ON THE AGE OF LOUIS 14TH. _Tr._ by Mr. Lockman, 1739.
ESSAY ON THE CIVIL WARS OF FRANCE, AND ALSO ON THE EPIC POETRY OF THE
EUROPEAN NATIONS, FROM HOMER TO MILTON. With a Discourse on Tragedy,
1727.
ESSAY ON UNIVERSAL HISTORY. _Tr._ 1754-57.
HENRIADE: an Epick poem. _Tr._ 1732.
HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE UNDER PETER THE GREAT. _Tr._ 1760-63.
HISTORY OF THE WAR OF 1741. _Tr._ 1756.
HISTORY OF THE AGE OF LOUIS 14TH. _Tr._ 1770.
MAHOMET: A tragedy (1740). _Tr._ by Mr. Miller, 1744. _Philosophical
Romance._
LETTERS CONCERNING THE ENGLISH NATION (1729). _Tr._ 1733.
MEROPE. (1734-43.) _Tr._ by T. Theobald, 1744.
THE METAPHYSICS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON: or, A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE
OPINIONS OF SIR I. N. AND MR. LEIBNITZ. _Tr._ by David E. Baker, 1747.
WORKS. _Tr._ by Dr. Smollett and T. Franklin, 35 vols. 1761-9.
[Smollett and Franklin were, for a valuable consideration
induced by the booksellers to suffer their names to appear as
the translators, but they had no further share in the matter.]
Voltaire's influence upon our literature is hardly calculable.
'If Voltaire exercised a greater attractive influence on the
mind of Europe than any other man of his age, it was because he
felt more than any other the influence of the age upon himself'.
=WALDERE. MS.=, 9th century. _Found 1860 in Royal Library,
Copenhagen._
_Ed._ 'Two Leaves of King Waldere's Lay', _text_ and _tr._ G.
Stephens, 1860.
=WALTER OF COVENTRY.=
MEMORIALE. _Ed._ W. Stubbs. Vols. i-ii. Rolls Ser. 1872-73.
=WERNER, FRIEDRICH L. Z.= _b._ 1768, _d._ 1823. =German poet,
dramatist and novelist.=
AT THE ALTAR. _Tr._ 1878.
BROKEN CHAINS. _Tr._ 1890.
BEACON FIRES. _Tr._ 1891.
FICKLE FORTUNE. _Tr._ 1881.
GOOD LUCK. _Tr._ 1890.
HERMANN. _Tr._ 1879.
HERO OF THE PEN. _Tr._ 1878.
NO SURRENDER. _Tr._ 1879.
PARTNERS. _Tr._ 1882.
RIVEN BONDS. _Tr._ 1877.
SACRED VOWS. _Tr._ 1878.
SUCCESS. _Tr._ 1876.
UNDER A CHARM. _Tr._ 1877.
=WIDSITH= (=Far traveller=).
'THE TRAVELLER'S SONG' or 'THE SCOP, OR SCALD'S TALE'. _Ed._, _Tr._
by H. Morley in Cook and Tinker's 'Select _Tr._ from Eng. Poetry',
1902.
=WIELAND, CHRISTOPH MARTIN.= _b._ 1733, _d._ 1813. =German poet.=
CRATES AND HIPPARCHIA. A Tale. _Tr._ by C. R. Cake, 1823.
THE GRACES: a Classical allegory ... _Tr._ [by S. T., i.e. Sarah
Taylor, afterwards Austin], 1823.
HISTORY OF AGATHON. (1762-.) _Tr._ 1773.
OBERON. (1784-87.) _Tr._ by Wm. Sotheby, 1798.
PRIVATE HISTORY OF PEREGRINUS PORTEUS, THE PHILOSOPHER. _Tr._ 1796.
REASON TRIUMPHANT OVER FANCY, exemplified in the Adventures of Don
Silvio de Rosalva. (1762-6.) _Tr._ 1773.
THE REPUBLIC OF FOOLS ... _Tr._ by H. Christmas, 1861.
SELECT FAIRY TALES. _Tr._ 1796.
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