Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams; Hesiod's Works and days; Musæus' Hero and Leander; Juvenal's fifth satire. Tr. by G. Chapman, with intr. and notes by R. Hooper

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Σελίδα 148 - Were asked of thy discoveries ; they must say, To the Greek coast thine only knew the way. Such passage hast thou found, such returns made, As now of all men it is called thy trade, And who make thither else, rob or invade.
Σελίδα 258 - The Vision of Piers Ploughman' is one of the most precious and interesting monuments of the English Language and Literature, and also of the social and political condition of the country during the fourteenth century. . . . Its author is not certainly known, but its time of composition can, by internal evidence, be fixed at about tbe year 1362.
Σελίδα 257 - The edition deserves well of the public ; it is carefully printed, and the annotations, although neither numerous nor extensive, supply ample explanations upon a variety of interesting points. If Mr. Halliwell had done no more than collect these plays, he would have conferred a boon upon all lovers of our old dramatic poetry."— L iterary Gazette.
Σελίδα 258 - Its author is not certainly known, but its time of composition can, by internal evidence, be fixed at about the year 1362. On this and on all matters bearing upon the origin and object of the Poem, Mr. Wright's historical introduction gives ample information. . .... In the thirteen years that have passed since the first edition of the present text was published by the late Mr. Pickering, our old literature and history have been more studied, and we trust that a large circle of readers will be prepared...
Σελίδα 258 - Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell, in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of the kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.

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