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Bibliography and Comparison Resources
The Anatomy of Melancholy: Bibliography and Comparison Resources
p. 1382Recorded uses: DJR-123 — LucianHistory: Lucian, How to Write History 1, in the Fowler translation, volume 2.; DJR-124 — LucianDance: Lucian, On the Dance or Of Pantomime; Fowler translation, volume 2.; DJR-136 — Lucian dance: Lucian, On the Dance, in Fowler’s volume 2; spectators and relief from passion.; work/audit-040/sources.json — 123-LucianHistory: Lucian, How to Write History 1, in the Fowler translation, volume 2.; work/audit-040/sources.json — 124-LucianDance: Lucian, On the Dance or Of Pantomime; work/audit-044/sources.json — 136-Lucian dance: Lucian, On the Dance, in Fowler’s volume 2.
BIB-1269
Lucian, The Ignorant Book-Collector 8–10, in Works, volume 3: Evangelus. Lucian, The Cock: Simon, Gniphon and Eucrates; Fowler translation, consulted for the sequence. Lucian, Philopseudes; Fowler translation, Cleodemus’s Hyperborean magician and Tychiades’s reply. Lucian The Cock Lucian, The Cock: Simon, Gniphon and Eucrates Lucian, Philopseudes
Recorded uses: DJR-043 — evangelus: Lucian, The Ignorant Book-Collector 8–10, in Works, volume 3: Evangelus.; DJR-044 — Lucian Cock: Lucian, The Cock: Simon, Gniphon and Eucrates; Fowler translation, consulted for the sequence.; DJR-126 — LucianMagic: Lucian, Philopseudes; Fowler translation, Cleodemus’s Hyperborean magician and Tychiades’s reply.; work/audit-007/sources.json — Lucian: Lucian The Cock; work/audit-013/sources.json — evangelus: Lucian, The Ignorant Book-Collector 8–10, in Works, volume 3: Evangelus.; work/audit-013/sources.json — Lucian Cock: Lucian, The Cock: Simon, Gniphon and Eucrates; work/audit-041/sources.json — 126-LucianMagic: Lucian, Philopseudes.
BIB-1270
Lucian, The Cock, in Works, volume 3, translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler: comparison of the reincarnation narrative. Lucian, Toxaris 29, historical English translation: Antiphilus in prison.
Recorded uses: DJR-026 — lucian: Lucian, The Cock, in Works, volume 3, translated by H. W. and F. G. Fowler: comparison of the reincarnation narrative.; DJR-052 — Lucian Toxaris: Lucian, Toxaris 29, historical English translation: Antiphilus in prison.; work/audit-016/sources.json — Lucian Toxaris: Lucian, Toxaris 29, historical English translation: Antiphilus in prison..
BIB-1271
Sidney, Arcadia; Zelmane’s song What tongue can her perfection tell, pages 180–183 in this transcription. Sidney, Arcadia
Recorded uses: DJR-121 — SidneySong: Sidney, Arcadia; Zelmane’s song What tongue can her perfection tell, pages 180–183 in this transcription.; work/audit-039/sources.json — 121-SidneySong: Sidney, Arcadia.
BIB-1272
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.9.1–2: two stanzas on friendship. Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.2.23.4; the Squire of Dames greets the false Florimell. Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.1.41 and 4.3.15; the two combat excerpts. Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.9.1–2 Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.2.23.4 Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.1.41 and 4.3.15
Recorded uses: DJR-111 — Spenser: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.9.1–2: two stanzas on friendship.; DJR-129 — Spenser423: Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.2.23.4; the Squire of Dames greets the false Florimell.; DJR-130 — Spenser: Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.1.41 and 4.3.15; the two combat excerpts.; work/audit-036/sources.json — 111-Spenser: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.9.1–2; work/audit-042/sources.json — 129-Spenser423: Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.2.23.4; work/audit-042/sources.json — 130-Spenser: Spenser, The Faerie Queene 4.1.41 and 4.3.15.
BIB-1273
Aristophanes, Lysistrata, on men’s and women’s marriage prospects.
Recorded uses: DJR-141 — lysistrata: Aristophanes, Lysistrata, on men’s and women’s marriage prospects.; work/audit-046/sources.json — 141-lysistrata: Aristophanes, Lysistrata, on men’s and women’s marriage prospects..
BIB-1274
Commines, Memoirs 5.5, Scoble 1855, volume 1, pages 320–322: Charles of Burgundy and remedies for grief. Commines, Memoirs 5.5, Scoble 1855, volume 1, pages 320–322
Recorded uses: DJR-068 — ComminesScoble: Commines, Memoirs 5.5, Scoble 1855, volume 1, pages 320–322: Charles of Burgundy and remedies for grief.; work/audit-021/sources.json — ComminesScoble: Commines, Memoirs 5.5, Scoble 1855, volume 1, pages 320–322.
BIB-1275
Erasmus, Praise of Folly, satire of monastic claims to merit. Erasmus, Praise of Folly
Socrates
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Robert Burton’s Anatomy ranges across medicine, philosophy, poetry, religion, and everyday life in its inquiry into melancholy. This complete parallel edition pairs the 1651 English text with a close modern English rendering, preserving the three Partitions, Democritus Junior’s address to the reader, verse, and the historical index.
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