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462 pages : frontispiece, plates, portrait, folded facsimile ; 23 cm. |
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The Harvard classics ; [Vol. XXXIX]
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Harvard classics ; vol. XXXIX.
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| Contents |
Title, prologue and epilogues to the Recuyell of the histories of Troy; Epilogue to Dictes and sayings of the philosophers; Golden legend; Caton; Aesop; Proem to Chaucer's Canterbury tales; Malory's King Arthur; Virgil's Eneydos, by W. Caxton.--Dedication of the Institutes of the Christian religion, by J. Calvin, tr. by J. Allen.--Revolutions of the heavenly bodies, by N. Copernicus. |
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History of the reformation in Scotland, by J. Knox.--Sir Walter Raleigh on the Faerie queene, by E. Spenser.--History of the world, by Sir W. Raleigh.--Prooemium, epistle dedicatory, preface, and plan of the Instaturatio magna, etc., by F. Bacon, tr. by S. Spedding.--Novum organum, by F. Bacon.-- First folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, by Heminge and Condell.-- Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, by Sir Isaac Newton, tr. by A. Motte. |
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Fables, ancient and modern, by J. Dryden.--Joseph Andrews, by H. Fielding.--English dictionary; Shakespeare, by S. Johnson.--Propylaen, by J.W. von Goethe.-- Appendix to Lyrical ballads; Essays supplementary, by W. Wordsworth.--Preface to Cromwell, by V. Hugo.--Preface to Leaves of grass, by W. Whitman.--History of English literature, by H.A. Taine. |
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