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The works of celebrated authors, of whose writings there are but small remains.

Accession number
PML 6303-04
Published
London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.
Notes
Poems by Garth: The dispensary, a poem in six cantos. Claremont. Address'd to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Clare ... Preface to the translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published by the author with translations from the Metamporphoses, Book XIV and XV, and Oratio laudatoria, in aedibus Collegii regalis Med. Lond. 17 Sept. 1697; Halifax: "The hind and the panther, transvers'd to the Story of the country-mouse and the city-mouse ... written in conjunction with Mr. Prior"; Roscommon: "An Essay on translated verse," translations from Vergil and Horace and Horace's art of poetry with notes; Stepney: translations of Juvenal, the eighth Satire, with remarks; Horace's Book III, Ode VII, imitated, Book IV, Ode IX. Elegy upon the death of Tibullus from Ovid; Tickell: A poem, to His Excellency the Lord Privy-Seal, on the Prosepect [sic] of Peace; Part of the Fourth Book of Lucan; the First Book of Homer's Iliad; and Walsh: Letters and Poems, amorous and gallant; Pastoral eclogues; A dialogue concerning women, being a defence of the sex; written to Eugenia; AEsculpaius: or the hospital of fools, an imitation of Lucian; Preface to Dryden's translation of Virgil's Pastorals, with a short defence of Virgil, against some of the reflections of Monsieur Fontanelle.
Description
2 v. ; 18 cm.
Provenance
With bookplate of Honorable Anne Rushout; Toovey collection.
Binding
1/2 red morocco.
Classification
Department