Category: Classics of Literature
This book had its origin in a preliminary study of the attitude of the first thirty years of the nineteenth century toward the classics. A list of the translations which were published during those years seemed so significant, if only from the point of view of quantity, that i...
This book had its origin in a preliminary study of the attitude of the first thirty years of the nineteenth century toward the classics. A list of the translations which were pu...
7. Part 744. Odyssey translated into English prose, as literally as the different idioms of the Greek and English languages will allow. With explanatory notes. By a Member of the Univers...
6. Part 61. The amorous and tragical Tales of Plutarch, whereunto is annexed the History of Cariclea and Theaginis and the Sayings of the Greeke philosophers. Translated by Ja. Sanferd....
3. Part 3NOTE.—In the following list of translations of Aesop’s Fables I have tried to avoid including those which were intended for young children when such works were obviously not tra...
8. Part 8_Reprinted: 1869; 1890; [Pocket Book Classics] 1901; [York Library] 1905; [New Universal Library] 1906; [People’s Library] 1908; 1909; [Harrap Library] 1909; 1910; [Red Letter L...
4. Part 445. The Frogs of Aristophanes adapted for performance by the Oxford University Dramatic Society, 1892. With an English version partly written for the occasion by David G. Hogart...
10. Part 102. The Shepherds Starre, Now of late scene, and at this hower to be observed merueilous orient in the East: ... Described by a Gentleman late of the Right worthie and honorable...
9. Part 9_Reprinted: 1595; [with the liues of Hannibal and Scipio African: translated out of Latine into French by Charles de l’Escluse, and out of French into English, By Sir Thomas Nor...
5. Part 52. The first and most excellent oration of that renowned orator Demosthenes, against Philip of Macedon, the Potent and Politicke enemy of the State of Athens. Faithfully transla...
2. Part 2During the early eighties the “First‐Class Man of Balliol College” reappeared with a translation of Herodotus book by book. From this time until the outbreak of the present war...
11. Part 1112. Part 12Finley Melville Kendall Foster was born in New York City, New York, January 27, 1892. He was educated in the public schools of New York City, and at New York University, where h...