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Poems, consisting chiefly of translations from the Asiatick languages : to which are added, two essays, I. On the poetry of the eastern nations. II. On the arts, commonly called imitative

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Title: Poems, consisting chiefly of translations from the Asiatick languages : to which are added, two essays, I. On the poetry of the eastern nations. II. On the arts, commonly called imitative

Level: Item

Classmark: Roberts Collection/JON

Creator(s): Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)

Publisher: At the Clarendon-Press

Publication city: Oxford

Date(s): 1772

Language: English

Size and medium: [6], viii, 217, [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/338303

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991011265369705181

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Anonymous. By Sir William Jones.


Contents: Solima, an Arabian eclogue. The palace of fortune, an Indian tale. The seven fountains, an Eastern allegory. A Persian song of Hafez. An ode to Petrarch. Laura, an elegy, from Petrarch. A Turkish ode on the spring by Mesihi. Arcadia, a pastoral poem. Caissa, or, The game at Chess. Essays.


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