An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics: Including the Scriptores de Re Rustica, Greek Romances, and Lexicons and Grammars: to which is Added a Complete Index Analyticus: the Whole Proceded by an Account of Polyglot Bibles,and the Best Editions of the Greek Septuagint and Testament

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W. Dwyer, 1804 - 571 páginas

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Página 12 - It is not without the most sincere regret, that I must now take leave of an accurate and faithful guide, who has composed the history of his own times, without indulging the prejudices and passions, which usually affect the mind of a contemporary.
Página xx - He laboured at this work for seventeen years, from sixteen, to eighteen hours each day, during which time he maintained in his own house, at his own cost, seven Englishmen and seven foreigners, as writers, all of whom died before the work was finished ; unfortunately their names have not been preserved.
Página 183 - Horace, in 1725, is by far the best edition of Horace ever published *. I have read it many times through, and know its singular worth. ' England has not produced a more, elegant and judicious critic than Mr. Baxter.
Página 374 - This is the celebrated edition of Tacitus which Mrs. Grierson published. I have read it twice through, and it is one of the best edited books ever delivered to the world. Mrs. Grierson was a lady possessed of singular erudition, and had an elegance of taste and solidity of judgment which justly rendered her one of the most wonderful, as well as amiable, of her sex. Prefixed to this edition is a dedication to Lord Carteret, by Mrs. Grierson, in most elegant Latinity.
Página 30 - The editio princeps of Aristotle is unquestionably one of the most splendid and lasting monuments of the productions of the Aldine press*.
Página xx - D i in my undertaking, partners* in my toil ; but some of them are now no more, and others have abandoned me, alarmed at the immensity of the undertaking. ' I am now, therefore, left alone, without amanuensis or corrector, far advanced in years, with my patrimony exhausted, my bodily and mental strength impaired, and my eye-sight almost gone...
Página 2 - Cambridge, lent his manuscript corrections and conjectures on the text of /! -. hvim, to a friend in Scotland ; for he once had, and I hope still has, an intention of publishing that tragedian, though it may now be suspended. His corrected text fell into the hands of * Virg.
Página 279 - I have read this edition of Pindar," says Harwood, " and it possesseth singular merit : I can pronounce it by far the best edition of Pindar. The Greek type is singularly beautiful. My friend Dr. Lowth, the late worthy and learned Bishop of London, once shewed me a copy of this edition on writing paper, and I think it was one of the most elegant books I ever saw.
Página 145 - This edition is valuable on account of its excellent scholia and correct Greek text, which have formed the basis of almost every subsequent edition. This is a truly valuable, if not indispensible volume in a library of any classical pretension.
Página xx - carry it to the cardinal. John was then a lad; " and, having drest himself in a very elegant suit " of clothes, he approached Ximenes, and delivered " the volume into his hands. ' I render thanks ' to thee, O God!' exclaimed Ximenes, ' that thou ' hast protracted my life to the completion of these

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