Virgil

No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...

This time her title-page quotation comes from Virgil .

She heads her novel with a prefatory letter to the Rev. William Johnstone , who, she says, has asked why she chooses to write fiction and not moral essays. She answers that novels offer opportunities...

The heroes of these tales include military and political characters but also such literary exiles as Ovid , Virgil , and Horace .

HW 's preface reflects her wide reading, addresses the various traditions—from pagan to Virgil ian—that went into the lyrics she translates, and makes it clear that she envisages her anthology as a companion to The...

In the later cantos the biblical narrative is handled less didactically, more dramatically and psychologically. Some of the digressions, personifications, and descriptions suggest Virgil ian epic.

Pope's thesis here (for which he evades responsibility by attributing it to Blount ) is that women are too changeable to have any lasting character or personality. The fickleness of women was of course a...

CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...

Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...

She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) keeps women from reading great writers...

The poet-narrator revisits the Russia of the 1930s and meets the great writers who rule her imagination, under the guidance of Marina Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva , as Dante describes meeting the great dead under the...

The trouble comes from a sorcerer, Cob, an old enemy of Ged, who has found a way to evade death. All over the Earthsea world people are obsessed with the idea of living for ever...

PL 's more recent work for children includes almost every imaginable kind of fiction. Some of her titles are futuristic, like Judy and the Martian, 1992, and A Martian Comes to Stay, 1995....

FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...

He published several volumes of poetry and translated works by Theocritus and Virgil . He found the occupation of novelist extremely profitable, and used most of his revenue from writing to fund his horticultural endeavours...