| Joseph Robson Tanner - Authors, English - 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... | |
| John Dryden - Drama - 1928 - 54 pages
...to which Dryden refers more than once in letters of his, was published in 1700 by Tonson in folio : Fables Ancient and Modern, translated into verse from...Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer, with Original Poems. Dryden died on the first of May in the same year. WP KER PREFACE TO THE FABLES - - - *-- - *- * , -... | |
| Bibliography - 1928 - 1094 pages
...Smith, Brett, £2 [See also Anderson Gall., Jan. 10, $30; Amer. Art Assoc., May 7, $10.] Dryden (J.) Fables, Ancient and Modern, translated into Verse,...Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with Original Poems, first ed., orig. cf., 1700, folio (208), June 18, Sotheby Thorp, £5 153. [See also Amer. Art Assoc.,... | |
| B.H. Blackwell Ltd - Antiquarian booksellers - 1926 - 1546 pages
...Вот. Martin Chuzzlewit. Pickwick Papers. Tale of Two Cities, etc. 678 DRYDEN (J.) Fables, Antient and Modern, translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with original Poems, 1755, sm. 8vo, calf 7s. 6d 679 DURHAM. Phillpottt (H.) Letter to the Freeholders of the County of Durham,... | |
| George Watson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1971 - 1700 pages
...Wits. Ann Arbor I949Rosenberg, A. Sir Richard Blackmore. Lincoln Nebraska 1953. JOHN DRYDEN 1631-1700 Fables ancient and modern: translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer. 1700. Rzesnitzek, F. Das Verhältnis der Fables von Dryden zu den entsprechenden mittelenglischen Vorlagen.... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...nobleman, who, beginning with a dog-kennel, never lived to finish the palace he had contrived. (Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern, translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace and Chaucer, 1700.) The preface to the Fables is Dryden's last and most relaxed piece of critical writing, where... | |
| Autographs - 1904 - 748 pages
...1671. Small 4to, half roan. French and Chubbuck, Libbie's, Feb. 23. 1004. (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.... | |
| Walter M. Kendrick - Art - 1996 - 336 pages
...Collection of Poems from the Sixth Century to the Present (New York, 1984), p. 10. 46. Preface to Fahles Ancient and Modern, Translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with Original Poems, in Of Dramatic Poesy, 2:28485. 47. FN Robinson, ed., The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Boston, 1957),... | |
| Sarah Fielding - Fiction - 2002 - 524 pages
...Sigismonda and Guiscardo is a long narrative poem, mostly in rhyming couplets, published in Fables, Antient and Modern, Translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer. With Original Poems by Mr. Dryden (1700). The story opposes love and tyranny, and treats female wit and sexual desire with... | |
| Samuel Pepys - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 308 pages
...encouraged him to produce his own edition of some of Chaucer's works. This appeared in 1 700 called Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer. Here Dryden writes to Pepys to thank him for the suggestion. 12 Diary 19 January 1686. 236. JOHN DRYDEN... | |
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