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The lyric works of Horace / translated into English verse: ; to which are added, a number of original poems. By a native of America. ; [Two lines of Latin quotation].
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 19717 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horace, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19717.
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Washington, George, 1732-1799--Poetry.
- Washington, George.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799.
- Latin literature.
- United States--History--Poetry.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Poems -- 1786.
- Subscription lists (Publishing)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xli pages, 1 unnumbered page, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by Eleazer Oswald, at the Coffee-House., M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- 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: pages 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. pages 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.
- "Subscribers."--p. [334-350].
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 19717).
- Cited in:
- Evans 19717
- Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 303
- Contains:
- Horace. Carmen saeculare.
- Parke, John, 1754-1789. Virginia: a pastoral drama.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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