Prefaces and prologues to famous books
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- PREFACES AND PROLOGUES TO FAMOUS BOOKS
- CONTENTS
- TITLE, PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUES TO THE RECUYELL OF THE HISTORIES OF TROY WILLIAM CAXTON
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- PREFACES AND EPILOGUES
- THE RECUYELL OF THE HISTORIES OF TROY
- EPILOGUE TO BOOK II
- EPILOGUE TO BOOK III
- DICTES AND SAYINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS
- GOLDEN LEGEND.
- CATON (1483)
- AESOP. (1483)
- CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
- MALORY'S KING ARTHUR. (1485)
- ENEYDOS (1490)
- DEDICATION OF THE INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
- GENERAL SYLLABUS
- DEDICATION OF THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES
- PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND
- PREFATORY LETTER TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH ON THE FAERIE QUEENE
- PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
- PROOEMIUM, EPISTLE DEDICATORY, PREFACE, AND PLAN OF THE INSTAURATIO MAGNA, ETC.
- EPISTLE DEDICATORY
- PREFACE
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST FOLIO EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS (1623)[A]
- PREFACE TO THE PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA
- PREFACE TO FABLES,
- PREFACE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS
- PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY
- TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
- PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE
- INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPYLÄEN [A]
- PREFACES TO VARIOUS VOLUMES OF POEMS
- PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS
- APPENDIX TO LYRICAL BALLADS
- PREFACE TO POEMS
- ESSAY SUPPLEMENTARY TO PREFACE
- PREFACE TO CROMWELL
- PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS
- INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
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