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Autore: | Dryden John <1631-1700.> |
Titolo: | Fables ancient and modern [[electronic resource] /] / translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. Dryden |
Pubblicazione: | London, : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., MDCC [1700] |
Descrizione fisica: | [42], 646 [i.e. 558], [2] p |
Altri autori: | Ovid <43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.> ChaucerGeoffrey <d. 1400.> BoccaccioGiovanni <1313-1375.> Homer |
Note generali: | In verse. |
Half title page reads : Mr. Dryden's fables. | |
"To His Grace the Duke of Ormond" signed: John Dryden. | |
Error in paging: p. 272-359 omitted. | |
Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. | |
Nota di contenuto: | Preface -- To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormonde -- Palamon and Arcite ... from Chaucer -- To my honour'd kinsman John Driden -- Meleager and Atalanta ... Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace -- Baucis and Philemon ... Pygmalion and the statue ... Cinyras and myrrhas, The first book of Homer's Ilias -- The cock and the fox ... from Chaucer -- Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace -- Ceyx and Alcyone -- The flower and the leaf ... Mr. Dryden's ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697 -- The twelfth book of Ovid his Metamorphoses ... The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, ... The wife of Bath, her tale -- Of the Pythagorean philosophy ... The character of a good parson / imitated from Chaucer and inlarg'd -- The monument of a fair maiden lady ... Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace -- The knight's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer -- The tale of the nun's priest / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer -- The floure and the leafe / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer -- The wife of Bathe's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer. |
Sommario/riassunto: | eebo-0014 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Fables ancient and modern |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996387021703316 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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