Poems and translations
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Type of record: Book
Title: Poems and translations
Classmark: BC Lt/PIT
Creator(s): Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)
Publisher: Printed for Bernard Lintot...; and Arthur Bettesworth
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1727
Language: English
Size and medium: xv, [1], 192 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282431
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001566629705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Poems.
First edition.
Contents: An epistle to Dr. Edward Young.--On the approaching delivery of Her Royal Highness.--The first hymn of Callimanchus to Jupiter.--The second hymn of Callimachus to Apollo.--To Sir James Thornhill, on his excellent painting the Rape of Helen.--Part of the second book of Statius.--On the death of a young gentleman.--Christ's passion, from a Greek ode of Mr. Masters.--On the king's return, 1720.--On the masquerades.--On a shadow.--To Caelia playing on a lute.--To the unknown author of the battle of the sexes.--The twelfth Ode of the first book of Horace, translated.--The 22d Ode of the first book of Horace.--A prologue for the strollers.--The 8th [24th, 29th, 46th, 90th, 139th, 144th] Psalm translated and paraphras'd.--The 3d [25th] chapter of Job translated and paraphras'd.--The song of Moses, paraphras'd.--The third ode of the 2d [and 4th] book of Horace, paraphras'd.--On the approaching Congress of Cambray.--The fable of the young man and his cat.--To Mr. Pope, on his translation
of Homer's Iliad.--Part of the first Aeneid of Virgil translated.--On his majesty's playing with a tyger in Kensington gardens.
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