 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 560 pages
...into a contract with Tonson, the bookseller, to supply him with 10,OOO verses, which produced in 1700 his " Fables, ancient and modern;" translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer. He tells us in the preface to this his last work, that " he thinks himself as vigorous as ever in the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 562 pages
...into a contract with Tonson, the bookseller, to supply him with 10,OOO verses, which produced in 1700 his " Fables, ancient and modern ;" translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer. He tells us in the preface to this his last work, that " he thinks himself as vigorous as ever in the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...which did not happen, however, till thirteen years after his death! The bargain produced, in 1700, his ' Fables, Ancient and Modern, translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer.' To this, perhaps his most imperfect work, is prefixed a critical account of the authors, from whom... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...which did not happen, however, till thirteen year* after his death ! The bargain produced, in 1700, his ' Fables, Ancient and Modern, translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer.' To this, perhaps his most imperfect work, is prefixed a critical account of the authors, from whom... | |
 | Ovid - Latin poetry - 1821 - 684 pages
...translated ; the Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses ; the Death of Ajax ; Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea, from the thirteenth Book ; of the Pythagorean Philosophy, from the fifteenth Book. Translations from Ovid's Epistles ; Preface concerning Ovid's Epistles ; Canace to Macareus ; Helen... | |
 | Nicol. Elig. Lemaire - 1824 - 578 pages
...translated; the Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, the Death of Ajax , Story of Acis , Polyphemus and Galatea , from the thirteenth book ; of the Pythagorean philosophy , from the fifteenth book. Translations from Ovid's Epistles : preface concerning Ovid's Epistles , Canace to Macareus , Helen... | |
 | Ovid - 1824 - 612 pages
...translated; the Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, the Death of Ajax , Story of Acis , Polyphemus and Galatea , from the thirteenth book; of the Pythagorean philosophy, from the fifteenth book. Translations from Ovid's Epistles : preface concerning Ovid's Epistles , Canace to Macareus, Helen... | |
 | Joseph William Moss - Classical literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...Ambrose Phillips, Croxall, Sewell and Garth. See a new and general Biograph. Diet. vol. vi, p. 26. speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from the thirteenth...fifteenth Book, by Mr. Dryden ; in his Fables ancient and mo dern, translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with Original Poems. LOND.... | |
 | Association réformiste - 1835 - 478 pages
...Translations of the Ancient Poets, with several Original Poems, 6 vols. 12mo. old calf, Is 6d — 1716 295 Fables, ancient and modern, translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, 12mo. neat, 2s 6d — Tonson, 1734 296 Essay on Dramatick Poesie, 4to. sewed, 2s 6rf — 1668 297 Du... | |
 | Joseph William Moss - Classical literature - 1837 - 806 pages
...Ambrose Phillips, Croxall, Sewell and Garth. See a new and general Biograph. Diet. vol. vi, p. 26. speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from the thirteenth...the Pythagorean Philosophy, from the fifteenth Book, bv Mr. Dryden ; in his Fables ancient and modern, translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace,... | |
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... (Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern, translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer... 
