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Genre/Form: | Early works Translations Early works to 1800 Translations into English Ouvrages avant 1800 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Dryden; Ovid; Geoffrey Chaucer; Giovanni Boccaccio; Jacob Tonson; Homer. |
OCLC Number: | 228732415 |
Notes: | Half-title reads: Mr Dryden's fables. In verse. Signatures: [A]² B-C² *A-*D² chi1 A⁴ a² B-Z⁴ Aa-Mm⁴ Aaaa-Bbbb⁴ Cccc² Dddd-Nnnn⁴ Oooo1 ²chi1. |
Description: | [42], 271, 360-646, p. 565, [1] p. ; 34 cm (fol.) |
Contents: | Dedication -- The preface -- Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond, with the following story of Palamon and Arcite, from Chaucer -- Palamon and Arcite, or, The Knight's tale -- To my honoured kinsman John Driden of Chesterton, in the county of Huntington, Esq; -- Meleager and Attalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace -- Bauris and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Pigmalion and the statue, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Ciniras and Myrrha, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The first book of Homer's Ilias -- The cock and the fox, or, The tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer -- Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace -- Ceyxe and Alcyone, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The flower and the leaf, or, The lady in the arbor / A vision out of Chaucer -- Alexander's feast, or, The power of musick. An ode in honour of St. Cecilia -- The twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses wholly translated -- The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book the thirteenth -- The wife of Bath, her tale, from Chaucer -- Of the Pythagorean phylosophy, from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Book the fifteenth -- The character of a good parson imitated, from Chaucer, and enlarged -- The monument of a fair maiden lady, who dy'd at the Bath, and is there interr'd -- Cymon and Iphegnia, from Boccace -- The knight's tale -- The tale of the nun's priest -- The floure and the leafe -- The wife of Bathe's tale. |
Other Titles: | Mr Dryden's fables |
Responsibility: | By Mr. Dryden. |
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