[A collection of stories and miscellaneous articles translated into Danish from English and other languages, including some articles written originally in Danish.]

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Miscellaneous translations, in prose and verse, from Roman poets, orators, and historians.

Mode of access: Internet.

Imperfect Creatures : Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1550-1750 /

Plagues of pests have always been a part of recorded history, but they hold special significance in the early modern period. 'Imperfect Creatures' is the first full-length study to investigate the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of “vermin” as creatures and category in the early modern literary and scientific imagination.

Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments,

v. 1. A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet--translated from Plato. On love. The coliseum. The assassins. On the punishment of death. On life. On a future state. Speculations on metaphysics. Speculations on morals. Ion; or, Of the Iliad--translated from Plato. Menexenus,--or, The funeral oration. Fragments from the Republic of Plato. On a passage in Crito.--v. 2. Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories. Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy.

Works of the British poets, with lives of the authors; translations.

v. 1-2. The Iliad of Homer, tr. by Alexander Pope.--v. 3. The Odyssey of Homer, tr. by Alexander Pope.--v. 4-5. The comedies of Aristophanes; by T. Mitchell.--v. 5. The comedies of Aristophanes; Select comedies of Terence, tr. by George Coleman, The satires of Perseus, tr. into English verse by William Gifford.--v. 6-7. The vision of Dante Alighieri, tr. by H.F. Cary.--v. 8. The Lusiad; tr. fr. Camoens by W.J. Mickle.--v. 9-10. Tasso's Jerusalem delivered; tr. by J.H. Hunt.--v. 11. Selections from the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides.

Historical illustrations of the fourth canto of Childe Harold : containing dissertations on the ruins of Rome and an essay on Italian literature /

Historical illustrations of the fourth canto of Childe Harold.--Essay on the present literature of Italy.--Letters of Torquato Tasso, never before published, with translations.--Letters written by Cola di Rienzi, tribune of Rome, never before published, with translations.

An account of travels into the interior of southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798: : including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent; the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; and sketches on the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. : To which is annexed, a description of the present state, population and produce of that extensive colony; with a map, constructed entirely from actual observations, made in the course of the travels. /

Publisher's advertisement, p. [387].

The Sacred books and early literature of the East, with historical surveys of the chief writings of each nation...

Each volume has also special t.p.

The Apostolic fathers : rev. texts with introductions, notes, dissertations, and translations /

"An autotype of the Constantinople manuscript"; pt. I, vol. 1, p. [421]-474.

The symbolist movement in literature /

"Bibliography and notes": p. [331]-365.

Half-hours with the best French authors : short passages from some of the most celebrated prose writers, translated into English /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sacred books of the East, with critical and biographical sketches

On cover: Edition de luxe.

Tales of the East: comprising the most popular romances of oriental origin; and the best imitations by European authors: with new translations, and additional tales, never before published. To which is prefixed an introductory dissertation .../

v. 1. Arabian nights' entertainments [from the French version of A. Galland] New Arabian nights [from the French version of D. Chavis and J. Cazotte]--v. 2. Continuation of the New Arabian nights. Persian tales [from the translation of F. Pétis de la Croix] Persian tales of Inatulla of Delhi [tr. by A. Dow] Oriental tales [by A. C. P., comte de Caylus] The history of Nourjahad [by Mrs. Frances Sheridan] Additional tales from the Arabian nights.--v. 3. Mogul tales [by T. S. Gueulette] Turkish tales [from the translation of F. Pétis de la Croix] Tartarian tales; Chinese tales [by T. S. Gueulette] Tales of the genii [by J. Ridley] The history of Abdalla, the son of Hanif [by J. P. Bignon]

Hāẕā Kitāb-i Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī, [1280, i.e. 1863 or 1864].

Richly elegant copy of the Dīvān of the masterful poet Ḥāfiẓ (Khvājah Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, d.1390?).

Buddhism in translations /

Extracts from Pāli writings done into English, and so arranged as to give a general idea of Ceylonese Buddhism. cf. Introd.