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The miscellaneous works of Joseph Addison (v.1)

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Guthkelch, A C

1914

Contents: Vol.1 Poems & plays - Vol.2 Prose.

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The miscellaneous works of Joseph Addison (v.2)

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Guthkelch, A C

1914

Contents: Vol.1 Poems & plays - Vol.2 Prose.

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Vergilius cum commentariis quinque : uidelicet Seruii, Landini., Ant. Mancinelli, Donati, Domitii

Virgil; Servius; Landino, Cristoforo (1424-1504); Calderino, Domizio (1447-1478); Donatus, Aelius; Scotto, Ottaviano (1498); Giunta, Luca-Antonio (1457-1538); Zanis, Bartholomaeus de de Portesio (1486-1515); Hoskin, H.C; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Sub anno domini.M.cccc.xciii.die Vltimo Iulii. [31 July 1493]

Signatures: a⁶ b-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-V⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on V8r reads: Impressum Venetiis per Bartolomeu[m] de Zanis de Portesio. Sub anno domini.M.cccc.xciii. die Vl...

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Turnus and Drances : being an attempt to shew, who the two real persons were, that Virgil intended to represent under those two characters

Beare, William (1758)

1750

Attempts to demonstrate that Turnus and Drances respectively represent Antony and Cicero. Imprimatur dated Feb. 13, 1749.

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Virgil's husbandry, or, An essay on the Georgics : being the first book

Virgil; Benson, William (1682-1754); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

[1739?]

Preface, translation and notes by William Benson.

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Letters concerning poetical translations, and Virgil's and Milton's arts of verse, &c

Benson, William (1682-1754)

1739

Anon., by William Benson.

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Grotius, his arguments for the truth of Christian religion : rendred into plain English verse

Grotius, Hugo (1583-1645); Virgil

1686

"Virgil's fourth eclogue faithfully translated": p. 137-141. "Imprimatur, Dec. 16, 1685, Z. Isham". Errata on p. [16].

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Selected parts of Horace, prince of lyricks : and of all the Latin poets the fullest fraught with excellent morality. Concluding with a piece out of Ausonius, and another out of Virgil. Now newly put into English

Horace; Ausonius, Decimus Magnus; Virgil; Fanshawe, Sir Richard (1608-1666)

1652

Title vignette, engraved. Latin and English on opposite pages, numbered in duplicate. Sig.B4 signed B3. Fanshawe's name appears in monogram form on title-page. "Edyl. XIV Ausonii Rosae" (Latin...

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Selected parts of Horace, prince of lyricks : and of all the Latin poets the fullest fraught with excellent morality. Concluding with a piece out of Ausonius, and another out of Virgil. Now newly put into English

Horace; Ausonius, Decimus Magnus; Virgil; Fanshawe, Sir Richard (1608-1666)

1652

Title vignette, engraved. Latin and English on opposite pages, numbered in duplicate. Sig.B4 signed B3. Fanshawe's name appears in monogram form on title-page. "Edyl. XIV Ausonii Rosae" (Latin...

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Poems and translations : with the Sophy

Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Virgil

1671

"The destruction of Troy, an essay upon the second book of Virgil's Æneis" has a separate dated title page; "The Sophy" has a separate dated title page, separate pagination and register beginning wit...

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