The lyric works of Horace [electronic resource] : translated into English verse: to which are added, a number of original poems / By a native of America. [Two lines of Latin quotation]
- Bib ID:
- 3166550
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Horace
- Online Access:
- http://galenet.gale.com/servlet/ECCO?c=1&stp=Author&ste=11&af=BN&ae=W020708&tiPG=1&dd=0&dc=flc&docNum=CW111804668&vrsn=1.0&srchtp=a&d4=0.33&n=10&SU=0LRK&locID=nla
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- Description:
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- Philadelphia : Printed by Eleazer Oswald, at the Coffee-House, M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]
- xli, [1], 334, [16] p., [1]leaf of plates : ill. ; 8°.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online.
- Notes:
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- Edited by John Parke, who was responsible for some of the translations and original poems. Includes also translations of classical poets other than Horace, and both original poems and translations by other hands than Parke's. Some of the translations are in fact paraphrases, adapted to the circumstances of American history and dedicated to well-known Americans.
- Dedicated to George Washington.
- Errors in paging: p. 55-99 misnumbered 54-98.
- Frontispiece engraved by James Peller Malcolm, after a design by Peter Markoe.
- "Carmen seculare. The secular poem, composed at the express command of Augustus."--p [177]-190, with separate title page.
- "Translations from the Greek and Latin, with original poems."--p. [191]-319, with separate title page. Translations by David French. Cf. p. xxiv.
- "Virginia: a pastoral drama, on the birth-day of an illustrious personage and the return of peace, February 11th, 1784."--p. [321]-344, with separate title page. By John Parke.
- Cited In:
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- Evans, 19717
- Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry ^DBBc303
- ESTC, 20708
- Reproduction:
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Mode of access: World Wide Web. Access restricted to subscribers.
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1786
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1786
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