The eagle and the robin : An apologue. Translated from the original of Aesop, written Two Thousand Years since, and now rendred in familiar verse. By H. G. L. Mag. -Fabula Narratur. Aquila non captat Muscas. Together with Taffey's triumph: or, a new translation of the Cambro-Muomaxia: in Imitation of Milton. By a gentleman of Oxford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

H. G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Anne, 1702-1714--Poetry.

Great Britain.

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722.

Marlborough, John Churchill.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16p. )

Other Title:

Eagle and the robin.

Place of Publication:

London : printed and sold by Henry Hills, in Black-Fryars, near the Water-Side, 1709.

Notes:

Preface signed: Horat. Gram.; sometimes attributed to William King.

Horat Gram presumably standing for Horace the schoolmaster. There is no evidence that this is a translation from Aesop. 'Taffey's triumph' is Daniel Bellamy's translation of Edward Holdsworth's 'Muscipula' (Foxon).

On the Duke of Marlborough and Robert Harley.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Foxon, E5

English Short Title Catalog, T32356.

OCLC:

642567285