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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SOCRATES OUT OF HIS SENSES. _Tr._ by Wintersted, 1771.
SYMPATHY OF SOULS. _Tr._ 1795.
=WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY.= _b._ 1095, _d._ 1142.
THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND (Gesta Regum), from the Arrival
of the Saxons A.D. 449, to his own Times, A.D. 1143, by William
of Malmesbury. Collected with authentic MSS., and _Tr._ from the
original Latin by Rev. J. Sharpe. 1815.
Mentioned here as highly prized for accuracy, veracity, and
critical judgment. One of the sources of our modern historians.
=WILLIAM OF PALERNE.= _Cir._ 14th century. [or, Wm. the Werwolf].
_Ed._ Prof. W. W. Skeat. Also _Ed._ Madden, Roxburghe Club, 1832.
E.E.T.S., 1867.
=WILLIBALD.= _b._ 700?, _d._ 786. Bishop of Eichstadt.
_Ed._ EARLY TRAVELS IN PALESTINE.
Notices of travels, dictated to and written down by author's
kinswoman, a nun of Heidenheim. Bohn. Ant. Lib., 1847.
=WINCKELMANN, JOHN= (=JOHANN JOACHIM=). _b._ 1717, _d._ 1768. =German
critic and writer on art.=
HISTORY OF ANCIENT ART. _Tr._ from the German by G. Henry Lodge, 2 v.
1849.
REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE OF THE GREEKS: with
instructions for the Connoisseur and an Essay on Grace in Works of
Art. _Tr._ by Henry Fuseli, 1765.
=WYCLIF, JOHN.= _See_ =Bible=.
=XENOPHON.= _b._ 435, _d._ 354 B.C. =Greek historian.=
CYROPÆDIA: The Bookes of Xenophon, containing the Institution, Schole
and Education of Cyrus. _Tr._ by William Bercker, 1567. The Bookes of
X. containing the discipline ... _Tr._ [to the end of the sixth Book
only]. By W. Barkar. [1560?].
ANABASIS. The Historie of Xenophon of the Retreat of the Ten
Thousand, by John Bingham, 1623.
HELLENICS. Xenophon's History of Greece. _Tr._ by John Newman, 1685.
MEMORABILIA. The Banquet of X. done from the Greek ... with an
introductory Essay concerning the Doctrine and Death of Socrates, by
James Welwood, 1710.
XENOPHONS TREATISE OF HOUSHOLDE ryght counnyngly trãslated ... by
Gentian Heruet, 1532.
=YORK MYSTERIES.= _Cir._ 1378.
_Ed_. Lucy T. Smith, 1885.
=ZAPPI, GIAMBATTISTA F.= _b._ 1667, _d._ 1719. =Italian poet and
jurist.=
SONNETS. _Tr._ T. H. Croker, 1755.
=ZEND AVESTA.= 1200-800 B.C. _Translated_ by Arthur Henry Bleek. 3
volumes in 1. 1864.
[Comprises the ancient sacred writings of the Parsees.]
=ZOLA, ÉMILE.= _b._ 1840, _d._ 1902. =French novelist.=
_The Rougon-Macquart Series._ (Les Rougon Macquart; histoire
Naturelle et Sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire. 1871-1893.)
CLAUDE'S CONFESSION. _Tr._ by G. D. Cox, 1888.
1. THE FORTUNES OF THE ROUGONS. (La Fortune de Rougon). (1886.) _Tr._
1871.
2. IN THE SWIM. (La Curée). _Tr._ 1887.
3. THE FAT AND THE THIN. (Le Ventre de Paris). (1888.) _Tr._ 1888.
4. THE CONQUEST OF PLASSONS. (La Conquête de Plassan). (1887.) _Tr._
1887-8.
5. ABBÉ MOURET'S TRANSGRESSION. (Le Faute de l'Abbé Mouret). _Tr._
1886-8.
6. HIS EXCELLENCY EUGÈNE ROUGON. _Tr._ 1887-90.
7. THE DRAM SHOP. (1885.) (L'Assommoir.) _Tr._ 1897.
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