[97] [A French translation of the _Bride of Abydos_ appeared in 1816, an Italian translation of the _Lament of Tasso_ in 1817. Goethe (see _Letters_, 1901, v. 503-521) translated fragments of _Manfred_ in 1817, 1818, but the earliest German translation of the entire text of _Manfred_ was issued in 1819.] [98] [See the last line of the Italian translation of the quatrain.] TO MR. MURRAY. 1. Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the times,[99] Patron and publisher of rhymes, For thee the bard up Pindus climbs, My Murray. 2. To thee, with hope and terror dumb, The unfledged MS. authors come; Thou printest all--and sellest some-- My Murray. 3. Upon thy table's baize so green The last new Quarterly is seen,-- But where is thy new Magazine,[100] My Murray? 4. Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine The works thou deemest most divine-- The Art of Cookery,[101] and mine, My Murray. 5. Tours, Travels, Essays, too, I wist, And Sermons, to thy mill bring grist; And then thou hast the _Navy List_, My Murray. 6. And Heaven forbid I should conclude, Without "the Board of Longitude,"[102] Although this narrow paper would, My Murray. Venice, _April 11_, 1818. [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 171.] FOOTNOTES: [99] [William Strahan (1715-1785) published Johnson's _Dictionary_, Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, Cook's _Voyages, etc_. He was great-grandfather of the mathematician William Spottiswoode (1825-1883). Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736) published for Otway, Dryden, Addison, etc. He was secretary of the Kit-Cat Club, 1700. He was the publisher (1712, etc.) of the _Spectator_. Barnaby Bernard Lintot (1675-1736) was at one time (1718) in partnership with Tonson. He published Pope's _Iliad_ in 1715, and the _Odyssey_, 1725-26.] [100] [See note 2, p. 51.] [101] [Mrs. Rundell's _Domestic Cookery_, published in 1806, was one of Murray's most successful books. In 1822 he purchased the copyright from Mrs. Rundell for £2000 (see _Letters_, 1898, ii. 375; and _Memoir of John Murray_, 1891, ii. 124).]