| Description |
462 p. front., pl., port., fold. facsim. 23 cm. |
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Harvard classics. [v. 39]
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--Preface of Fables, ancient and modern, by J. Dryden.--Preface to Joseph Andrews, by H. Fielding.--Preface to the English dictionary; Preface to Shakespeare, by S. Johnson.--Introduction to the Propylaen, by J.W. von Goethe.--Prefaces to various volumes of poems; Appendix to Lyrical ballads; Essays supplementary to preface, by W. Wordsworth.--Preface to Cromwell, by V. Hugo.--Preface to Leaves of grass, by W. Whitman.--Introduction to the History of English literature, by H.A. Taine. |
| Contents |
Title, prologue and epilogues to the Recuyell of the histories of Troy; Epilogue to Dictes and sayings of the philosophers; Prologue to Golden legend; Prologue to Caton; Epilogue to Aesop; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury tales; Prologue to Malory's King Arthur; Prologue to Virgil's Eneydos, by W. Caxton.--Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion, by J. Calvin, tr. by J. Allen.--Dedication of the Revolutions of the heavenly bodies, by N. Copernicus.--Preface to the History of the reformation in Scotland, by J. Knox.--Prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie queene, by E. Spenser.--Preface to the History of the world, by Sir W. Raleigh.--Prooemium, epistle dedicatory, preface, and plan of the Instaturatio magna, etc., by F. Bacon, translation edited by S. Spedding.--Preface to the Novum organum, by F. Bacon.--Preface to the first folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, by Heminge and Condell.--Preface to the Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, by Sir Isaac Newton, tr. by A. Motte. |
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Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
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Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.
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Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
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Knox, John, approximately 1514-1572.
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
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Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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Heminge, John, approximately 1556-1630.
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Condell, Henry, -1627.
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Prefaces and prologues.
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Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
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Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.
Prefaces and prologues.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893.
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Allen, John, 1771-1839
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Spedding, James, 1808-1881.
Prefaces and prologues.
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