 | Autographs - 1904 - 748 pages
...1671. Small 4to, half roan. French and Chubbuck, Libbie's, Feb. 23, 1904. (523) $5.50 2283 Fables. Translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with Original Poems. First edition. London, 1700. Folio, calf. Rebacked. Henkels', Dec. 4, 1903. (38) $21.00 2284 Fables.... | |
 | Alfred Tobler - English literature - 1905 - 138 pages
...erCHAPTER IV. POETS WHO MODERNISE CHAUCERIAN WORKS BY A FREE TRANSLATION. In 1700 John Dryden published his « Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into...Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer : with Original Poems by Mr. Dryden. » The pieces which he calls « from Chaucer » are five in number with the following... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1912 - 604 pages
...publisher might have in stock, with his own name on the title-page, the earlier poems of the author. 1700. Fables Ancient and Modern; translated into verse,...Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer: with Original Poems. By Mr. Dryden. 1701. Poems on various Occasions and Translations from several Authors by Mr. John Dryden.... | |
 | Milton D. Baumgartner - Comparative literature - 1914 - 100 pages
...In his versification, however, the influence of Dryden and his pupil Pope, is more evident. He em1 Fables, Ancient and Modern, Translated into Verse...Homer. Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with Original Poems, London, 1700. 2 Acta Euriditorum . . . , pp. 321-325, Lipsiae, 1700. 3 The Gbttinger Zeitung von Gelehrten... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 pages
...[possibly William Bell, of Ulcomb, Kent, whose bookplate is in tlie volume]. MS. Notes in a copy of Fables, Ancient and Modern, translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer ... by Mr. Dryden, 1700. [BM 11631. i. 12.] [These notes are principally numerous corrections of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1915 - 84 pages
...translation of Virgil, upon which he had been engaged since 1694. In November, 1699, was published the 'Fables, Ancient and Modern, translated into verse...Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with original poems '. The preface is memorable for its criticism of Chaucer, and especially of The Canterbury Tales. The... | |
 | John Rylands Library - Libraries - 1918 - 620 pages
...mountaines, forests and other parts of this renowmed isle of Great Britaine. London, 1622. Fol. DRYDEN (John) Fables ancient and modern, translated into verse,...Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer : with original poems. London, 1700. Fol. ELLIS (Robinson) A commentary on Catullus. Second edition. Oxford, 1889. 8vo. FARNELL... | |
 | Maggs Bros - English literature - 1924 - 662 pages
...considerations, at least deferr'd it till I publish the Conquest of Granada." Dryden (John) — continued. 655 Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse,...Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with Original Poems. I'iRST EDITION. Folio. Original calf, gilt back (worn at joints). London, Printed for Jacob Tonson,... | |
 | William Henry Crawshaw - English literature - 1924 - 606 pages
...plays, thus closing his dramatic labors. In 1698 he began his Fables, and in March, 1700, published Fables, Ancient and Modern, translated into Verse,...Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with Original Poems by Mr. Dryden. In a fine preface he gives us his last piece of literary criticism. The Fables was Dryden's... | |
 | Joseph Robson Tanner - History - 1925 - 336 pages
...Parson as a subject for his pen, and the ultimate result was a folio volume, published in 1700, entitled Fables Ancient and Modern : translated into verse...Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer . with Original Poems : By Mr. Dryden. In a letter of July 14, 1699, beginning Padron Mio, Dryden offers to bring to Pepys... | |
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Fables, Ancient and Modern, translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with Original Poems, fol. 
