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The early and modern English language:

a historical reader and diachronic corpus a diachronic corpus representing different genres of English inspired by A.G. Rigg's

selected and collected by Geoffrey Allen with Katherine Frankl and Sumita Fleming under the direction of Carol Percy text input by Jennifer Cairns, Nicole Lees, and Eliza Marciniak text checked by Jennifer Cairns and Eliza Marciniak, with David Heath text prepared for the web by Jennifer Cairns and Rachel Caballero, for webmaster Joyce Chan

Texts by author/topic

also see index (in preparation) of texts sorted by date

Translations of Homer's Odyssey, part of Book X

Translated in 1614 by Chapman
Translated in 1725 by Pope
Translated in 1834 by Sotheby
Translated in 1875 by Morris
Translated in 1903 by Mackail
Translated in 1961 by Fitzgerald
Translated in 1967 by Lattimore
Translated in 1980 by Shewring
Translated in 1990 by Mandelbaum
Translated in 1996 bu Fagles

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Translations of Tacitus' The Annals

Written in 109, the original excerpt in Latin
Translated in 1598 by Greenway
Translated in 1698 by Dryden
Translated in 1728 by Gordon
Translated in 1805 by Murphy

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Translations of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy: Extract A

The original excerpt
Translated in 1380 by Chaucer
Translated in 1664 by Conningsby
Translated in 1674 by Elys
Translated in 1695 by Preston
Translated in 1785 by Ridpath
Translated in 1789 by Duncan
Translated in 1897 by James
Translated in 1962 by Green

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Translations of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy: Extract B

The original text, written in 523
Translated in 1380 by Chaucer
Translated in 1593 by Elizabeth
Translated in 1664 by Coningsby
Translated in 1674 by Elys
Translated in 1692 by Green
Translated in 1695 by Preston
Translated in 1789 by Duncan
Translated in 1795 by Ridpath
Translated in 1897 by James

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Translations of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy: Extract C

original text written in 523
Translated in 1380 by Chaucer
Translated in 1410 by Walton
Translated in 1593 by Elizabeth
Translated in 1664 by Coningsby
Translated in 1674 by Elys
Translated in 1695 by Preston
Translated in 1785 by Ridpath
Translated in 1789 by Duncan
Translated in 1897 by James
Translated in 1962 by Green

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Translations of Benvenuto Cellini's Vita: Extract A

Translated in 1771 by Nugent
Translated in 1882 by Roscoe
Translated in 1889 by Symonds
Translated in 1927 by Cust

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Translations of Benvenuto Cellini's Vita: Extract B

The original Italian text
Translated in 1771 by Nugent
Translated in 1882 by Roscoe
Translated in 1889 by Symonds
Translated in 1927 by Cust

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Translations of Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus

Translated in 1579 by Thomas North
Translated in 1683 by Knightly Chetwood
Translated in 1727 by Anon.

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Translations of chapter 4 of De Montaigne's Essais

Written in 1580, the original French text excerpt
Translated in 1603 by John Florio, The Essayes or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses of Lo: Michaell de Montaigne
Translated in 1685 by Charles Cotton, Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
Translated in 1850 by William Hazlitt, The Works of Michael de Montaigne, comprising his essays
Translated in 1934 by Jacob Zeitlin, The essays of Michel de Montaigne

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Cookery: recipes for mostly beef stew and soup, 1675-1888

Accomplish'd Lady's Delight, 1675
Patrick Lamb, Royal Cookery, 1710
Elizabeth Cleland, New and Easy Method of Cookery, 1759
Martha Bradley, The British Housewife, 1770?
Hannah Glasse ?, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, 1778
Mary Cole, Lady's Complete Guide; or Cookery In All Its Branches, 1788
Francis Collingwood and John Woolams, Universal Cook, 1792
T. Williams, Accomplished Housekeeper, and Universal Cook, 1797
M. Radcliffe, Modern System of Domestic Cookery, 1827
Isabella Beeton, Book of Household Management, 1861
The Home Cook Book, 1888

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Sport: Cricket matches as reported in the Times of London, 1860-1965

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Sport: Baseball games as reported in the New York Times, 1860-1965

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Travel: Translations of travelogues, 1625-

Excerpt from Abacuk Pricket, A larger discourse of the same voyage, 1625 Henry Hudson's Voyages, from Purchas His Pilgrimes by Samuel Purchas
Excerpt from The strange and dangerous voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames, in his intended Discouery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea, 1633
Excerpts from Sir John Narborough, An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North, 1694: extract A and extract B
Excerpt from The Dangerous Voyage of Capt. Thomas James, in his intended Discovery of a North West Passage into the South Sea, 1740 edition compare with 1633!

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Health: venereal diseases, 1625-1998

Sennertus, Two Treatises, trans. Culpeper, 1673
Marten, Treatise of ... the Venereal Disease, 1708
A London Physician, London's Medicinal Informer, 1710
Turner, A Practical Dissertation on the Venereal Disease, 1732
Hunter, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, 1786
Hill and Cooper, The Student's Manual of Venereal Disease, 1881
Hutchinson, Syphilis, 1887
Robinson et al, "Syphilis," Mechanisms of Microbial Disease, 1993
Pratt, "Break it to him gently," Chatelaine, 1998

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Fashion

"The Cabinet of Fashion"> from The Lady's Monthly Museum"> in 1798
"The Mirror of Fashion" from The Lady's Monthly Museum" in 1819
"On the Subject of Clothes" from Macmillan's from 1860
"Decolletage of Royalty" from Vogue, 1894
"What she wears" from Vogue, 1894
"Discoveries in Chic",from Vogue, 1928
"Forecast", from Vogue,` 1970
"View", from Vogue, 1996
"what's cool?" from Vogue, 1996