Lycée, ou, Cours de littérature ancienne et moderne / par J. F. Laharpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

La Harpe, Jean François de, 1739-1803.

Contributor:

Harris, John Levett., Donor.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

French literature--History and criticism.

French literature.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Genre:

Bookplates (Provenance)

Physical Description:

24 v. ; 17 cm.

Other Title:

Cours de littérature ancienne et moderne.

Place of Publication:

Paris : chez tous les principaux libraires, 1800-1805.

Summary:

Includes chapters on Aristotle, Longinus, the French language as compared to other ancient languages, the epic poetry of the ancients, The Odyssey, Lucan, Hesiod, Ovid, Marcus Manelius, Lucretia, Lyrical poetry, Greek lyrics, Horace, pastoral poetry and fables of the ancients, education, art, eloquence, Cicero, oratory, Chersonese, Demosthenes, Athens, Rome, Roman orators, In Verrum, the Catiline orations, speeches of Cicero, Greek and Roman historians, Plato, Plutarch, Seneca, Pierre Corneille, tragic poets, Jean Racine, Alexander and Andromache, Britannicus, Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridates, Iphigenia in Aulis, Phaedra, Jaques Pradon, Athalie, Esther, Jean Rotrou, Pierre du Ryer, Thomas Corneille, Quinault and Campistron, Ducȟ and Lafosse, Moliere, Le Misantrope, farces of Moliere, Amphrytron, l Avare, Les Femmes Savantes, Tartuffe, Quinault, Rousseau, Nicolas Boileau, Jean de la Fontaine, Virgil, panegyrics, Sermons, Descartes, Pascal, Fraṅois F̌nelon, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Bayle, Pierre Nicole, Jacques-Joseph Duguet, Fraṅois de La Rochefoucauld, Jean de La Bruÿre, Charles de Saint-�vremond, novels, translations, critiques, the epic, the Henriade, poem about the battle of Fontenoy; natural law; and the war of Geneva.

Contents:

Anciens. t.1-3. Poesie

t. 3-4. Eloquence

t. 5. Histoire, philosophie, et litterature melee

Siecle de Loius XIV.

t. 6-9. Poesie

t. 10. Eloquence, histoire, philosophie, litterature, etc.

Dix-huitieme siecle.

t. 11-19. Poesie

t. 20-21. Eloquence, histoire, et litterature melee

t. 22-24. De la philosophie du dix-huitieme siecle.

Notes:

Place of publication varies.

Additional chapters cover: poems of religion and thanks, Cardinal de Bernis, Narcissus in the island of Venus, the Judgment of Paris, Vert-Vert, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, La Peinture, The Annals, Theatrical Declamation, The Seasons, agriculture, the months, tragedies, theater of Voltarie: Oedipus, Mariamne, Brutus, Zaire, Adelaide du Guesclin, Death of Caesar, Alzire, Zulima, Mahomet, Merope, Semiramis, Electra, Orestes, Rome Sauvee, The Orphan of China, Tancrede, Olympia, Prosper Jolyot de Cřbillon, Antoine Houdar de la Motte, Nicolas La Grange, Alexis Piron, Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Jean-Baptiste de La Noue, Guymond de la Touche, Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Ch́teaubrun, Saurin and Dubelloy, Lemiere, Destouches, Piron and Cresset, Boissy and Lesage, Legrand, Fagan, Pont-de-Veyle, Desmahis, Barth, Colľ, Lanoue, Marivaux, Saint-Foix, Chamfort, Sedaine, Fabre d'Eglantine and Beaumarchais, Bievre and Rochon, opera, Danchet and Lamotte, Roy, Pellegrin, Bernard, Labruere, M. Gretri, Vaď, Favart, Marmontel, Helen of Anselle, Poinsinet, Gherardi, Fontenelle, Trublet, Pompignan, Malfilatre, Thomas, Desmaliis, Colardeau, Florian, Bonnard, the Tragedy of Mustapha and Zeangir, Jean-Sifrein Maury, Incas, the people of Asia, Osian, Paradise Lost, Alexander Pope, la voe de Nicolo Franco, The Sorrows of Young Werther, The French Revolution, religion, Montesquieu, Buffon, Condillac, Alembert s encyclopedia, moralists and economists, sophists, Toussaint, Helvetius, aveugles, and clairvoyans.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bookplate: "John L. Harris, Burlington, New-Jersey."

Athenaeum copy: Harris bequest bookplate.

OCLC:

230737984