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The First Printed Translations into English 20

LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, TOGETHER WITH A WORK ON THE

PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.... _Tr._ E. B. Speirs and J. B.

Sanderson. 3 v. 1895.

 

LOGIC OF HEGEL. (1812.) _Tr._ by W. Wallace, etc., 1874.

 

THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART ... by Hegel and C. L. Michelet. _Tr._ by W.

Hastie, 1886. [Summary of] HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT. By T. C.

Sanders, 1855.

 

 

=HEINE, HEINRICH.= _b._ 1800, _d._ 1856. =German poet and author.=

 

THE POEMS OF HEINE. Complete. _Tr._ in the original metres, with a

sketch of Heine's life. By E. A. Bowring, 1858.

 

[Selections.] FOURTEEN POEMS ... from Heine. _Tr._ 1852.

 

THE ROMANTIC SCHOOL. _Tr._ S. L. Fleishman. 1882.

 

TRAVEL PICTURES. _Tr._ by F. Storr, 1846.

 

 

=HELIODORUS.= _c._ 3rd century A.D.

 

THEAGENES AND CHARICLEA (Æthiopica) written in Greeke by Heliodorus,

no lesse wittie than pleasant. Englished by T. Underdoune, 1587.

 

[First printed in Greek at Basle, 1534.]

 

 

=HENRY OF HUNTINGDON.= _d._ 1155. =English historian.=

 

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH (Historia Anglorum B.C. 55 A.D. 1154). _Tr._

by T. Forester, 1853.

 

 

=HERACLITUS EPHESII.= B.C. 500. =Greek philosopher.=

 

THE RIDDLES OF HERACLITUS AND DEMOCRITUS. _Tr._ 1598.

 

 

=HERDER, JOHANN GOTTFRIED.= _b._ 1744, _d._ 1803. =German writer.=

 

THE CID. _Tr._ 1828.

 

ORIENTAL DIALOGUES. _Tr._ 1801.

 

OUTLINES OF A PHILOSOPHY OF THE HISTORY OF MEN. _Tr._ by T.

Churchill, 1800.

 

SPIRIT OF HEBREW POETRY. _Tr._ by J. Marsh, 1833.

 

 

=HERODOTUS.= _b._ 484, _d._ 424 B.C. =Greek historian.=

 

THE FAMOUS HYSTORY OF HERODOTUS. Conteyning the Discourse of Dyvers

Countreys, etc. [_Tr._ by B. R. i.e. Barnaby Rich.] 1584.

 

 

=HERTZ, HENRIK.= _b._ 1798, _d._ 1870. =Danish poet and dramatist.=

 

KING RENE'S DAUGHTER. _Tr._ [Sir] Theodore Martin, 1850.

 

KING RENE'S DAUGHTER. A Lyric Drama. _Tr._ J. F. Chapman, 1845.

 

 

=HESIOD.= _b._ 735 B.C. =Greek didactic poet.=

 

THE GEORGICS OF HESIOD. _Tr._ by George Chapman, 1618.

 

WORKS AND DAYS. _Tr._ Geo. Chapman, 1618.

 

WORKS OF HESIOD. _Tr._ (in verse) by Mr. Cooke, 1728.

 

Hesiod was imitated by Virgil (Georgics). Served as model for

Tusser's 'Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry', and Dyer and

Green.

 

 

=HEYSE, PAUL J. L.= _b._ 1830. =German poet and novelist.=

 

BARBAROSSA AND OTHER TALES. _Tr._ L. C. S., 1867.

 

CHILDREN OF THE WORLD. [1873.] _Tr._ 1882.

 

THE DEAD LAKE. _Tr._ M. Wilson, 1867.

 

INCURABLE. _Tr._ Mrs. H. W. Eve, 1890.

 

THE LONELY ONES. _Tr._ 1870.

 

LA MARCHESA, etc. _Tr._ J. Philips, 1887.

 

ROMANCE OF A CANONESS. _Tr._ J. M. Percival, 1888.

 

TWO PRISONERS. _Tr._ 1893.

 

 

=HIGDEN, RANULF.= _d._ 1364. =English monk.=

 

POLYCHRONICON. From the creation to 1352, with the English. _Tr._ of

John Trevisa, 1387 ... v. 1-2 _Ed._ by C. Babington; v. 3-9 _Ed._ by

J. R. Lumby. _Rolls Ser._ 9 v. 1865-86.

 

[Printed by Caxton in 1482, with Caxton's continuation to 1460.]

 

 

=HOFFMANN, ERNEST THEODOR WILHELM.= _b._ 1776, _d._ 1822. =German

story-teller.=

 

THE DEVIL'S ELIXIR. _Tr._ 1824.

 

THE ELEMENTARY SPIRIT [_Tr._ from 'Der Elementargeist', by J.

Oxenford], 1844.

 

THE GOLDEN POT. _Tr._ by T. Carlyle, 1827.

 

MASTER FLEA. _Tr._ by G. [1880.]

 

THE SANDMAN. _Tr._ by J. Oxenford, 1844.

 

WEIRD TALES. _Tr._ by J. T. Bealby, 2v. 1885.

 

 

=HOLINSHED, RALPH.= _d._ 1580 (?). _English annalist._

 

CHRONICLES OF ENGLANDE, SCOTLANDE, AND IRELAND, by Raphaell

Holinshed, 2 v., 1577.

 

Modern historians have borrowed largely from him.

 

 

=HOLY GRAIL.= _Cir._ 1450. English _tr._ [from de Borron] by Lonelich,

pts. i-iv., _Ed._ F. J. Furnivall. E.E.T.S., 1874-77.

 

ALLITERATIVE ROMANCE OF JOSEPH OF ARIMATHIE, OR THE HOLY GRAIL. _Ed._

J. R. Lumby. 1870.

 

_Ed._ Furnivall, F. J. Roxburghe Club, 1861-63.

 

A name given to the cup or vessel from which Christ drank the

wine at the Last Supper. It was fabled to have been preserved

by Joseph of Arimathæa. The 'quest of the graal' is the most

fertile source of adventures to the Knights of the Round Table.

_See also under_ ARTHUR.

 

 

=HOMER.= _b._ _c._ 850 B.C. =Greek Epic poet.=

 

TEN BOOKS OF HOMER'S ILIADES, _translated_ out of French, by A. Hall,

1581.

 

SEAVEN BOOKES OF THE ILIADES OF HOMER, PRINCE OF POETES, _translated_

according to the Greeke Judgement of his best Commentaries. By Geo.

Chapman, 1598.

 

THE STRANGE, WONDERFULL AND BLOODY BATTEL BETWEEN FROGS AND MICE....

Paraphrastically done into English Heroycall Verse by W. F(owldes),

1603.

 

HOMER, PRINCE OF POETS. _Translated_ according to the Greeke in

twelve Bookes of his Iliads by Geo. Chapman. [1610.]

 

THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER, PRINCE OF POETS, IN HIS ILIADES AND

ODYSSES. _Translated_ by Geo. Chapman. [1612.]

 

After the Bible, the works of Homer have had perhaps the most

lasting influence upon our literature.

 

 

=HORACE= (=QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS=). _b._ 65, _d._ 8 B.C. =Latin

lyric and satiric poet.=

 

ALL THE ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE. Translated into English Verse by

H. Rider, etc., 1638.

 

CERTAIN SELECTED ODES OF HORACE.... [by J. Ashmore], 1621.

 

HORACE, HIS ARTE OF POETRIE, EPISTLES, AND SATYRS. _Tr._ by T. Drant,

1567.

 

A MEDICINABLE MORALE, that is, the Two Bookes of Horace His Satires,

Englished. The Wailyngs of the Prophet Hieremiah done into English

verse. Also Epigrammes by T. Drant. 1566.

 

ODES [AND FOUR EPODES] OF HORACE.... selected and translated by S^r.

T[homas] H[awkins]. 1625.

 

Influenced 'cavalier' poets of the 17th century, among whom

was Herrick. His satiric verse largely influenced Pope in his

'Moral Essays' and 'Imitations of Horace', and Dryden in his

satires. Jonson is an imitator of Horace in the way of poetical epistles and short lyrics.