Category: Classics of Literature
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2. Part 2SATYRES, IN SEVEN FAMOUS DISCOURSES, shewing the State, (1) of the Court, and Courtiers. (2) Of Libertie, and the Clergie in generall. (3) Of the Romance Clergie. (4) Of Marriag...
3. Part 3THE WORKS OF MONSIEUR BOILEAU MADE ENGLISH BY SEVERAL HANDS. To which is prefixed his life by Mr. Des Maizeaux. (_Tr._ by J. Ozell) and some account of this translation by N. Ro...
4. Part 4Dante utilized the epic of Virgil as the basis for his poems. Influenced Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. 'House of Fame' and 'Parliament of Fowles' by Chaucer show borrowings and tran...
5. Part 5MORRIS, WM. _Tr._ OLD FRENCH ROMANCES, done into English. 1896. ('The Tale of King Constans the Emperor', 'The Friendship of Amis and Amile', 'The Story of King Florus and the F...
6. Part 6A name given to the cup or vessel from which Christ drank the wine at the Last Supper. It was fabled to have been preserved by Joseph of Arimathæa. The 'quest of the graal' is t...
7. Part 7The poet 'thrummed' three books into one in his work, namely, Wace's 'Geste des Bretons' (1155), his chief source, Baeda's work in his own Latin, and Alfred's translation of the...
8. Part 8THE ALCORAN OF MOHOMET, translated out of Aribique into French by Lieut. Du Ryer ... and newly Englished, for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vaniti...
9. Part 9[1] One of the 'picaresque or rogue' novels, of which 'Jack Wilton' by Nash was the first example in English. It was later followed by 'Moll Flanders' and 'Colonel Jack' by Defo...
10. Part 10The interminable pseudo-romantic stories of M. de S.--the 'Grand Cyrus' or 'Clélie'--were exploited by Robert Boyle (Earl of Surrey), Sir Geo. Mackenzie, J. Crowne the dramatist...
11. Part 11THE ELEGIES OF TIBULLUS, translated into English, with some observations on the original Design of Elegiac Verse, with the Characters of the most celebrated Greek ... Poets. By...
12. Part 12Boke 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 Soynt. By M. Luther. _Tr._ 1534, 96
13. Part 13Discourse on the History of the Whole World ... Explicating the Continuance of Religion with the Changes of States and Empires, from the Creation till the Reign of Charles the G...
14. Part 14Laws of Ine (King of W. Saxons, 688-726). The Earliest Laws of Wessex. Re-issued by King Alfred. _Ed._ B. Thorpe, "Ancient Laws and Institutes of England," text and tr. 1840, 90
15. Part 1516. Part 16Prince, The. Also, The Life of Castruccio of Lucca, and the Meanes Duke Valentine Us'd to Put to Death V. Vitellozzo, Etc. By N. Machiavelli. _Tr._ by E[dward] D[acres], 1640, 97
17. Part 17Triumph of Faith. The Sacrifice of Isaac. The Ship-wracke of Jonas. With a Song of Victorie obtained by the French King at Yvry. By Du Bartus. _Tr._ by J. S. Marchant, 1590, 49