A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings - From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Henry Gally
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Bruyère of the French Academy. Made English by several hands. With the
Characters of Theophrastus..._ 1699. 2 vols. 2. Isaac Casaubon's Latin edition of Theophrastus appeared in 1592 and was reprinted frequently during the seventeenth century. 3. Eustace Budgell, _The Moral Characters of Theophrastus_ (1714), Preface, sig. a5. 4. _Ibid._, sig. a6 verso. 5. For a full account of the shift in attitude see Edward Miles Hooker, "Humour in the Age of Pope," _Huntington Library Quarterly_, XL (1948), 361-385. 6. "A Prefatory Discourse concerning Theophrastus," in _The Characters, Or The Manners of the Age_, II, xxii. * * * * * The Moral Characters of THEOPHRASTUS. Translated from The Greek, with Notes. To which is prefixâd |
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