TULLY'S THREE BOOKS TOUCHING THE NATURE OF THE GODS. (De Natura Deorum.) 1683.
Orators and preachers of the 17th and 18th centuries based their style upon Cicero. He formed what is known as the 'Johnsonian' style. Burke, Fox, Pitt and Gladstone modelled themselves on Cicero.
'It is not too much to say that the highest eloquence of Italy, France and England has at all times striven to be Ciceronian.'
=CID.= _b._ 1040, _d._ 1099. =Spanish hero.=
The Moorish appellation of a celebrated Castilian hero, who was born at Burgos about 1040, and whose proper name was Rodrigo or Ruy Diaz de Bivar. He was also surnamed Campeador ('the Champion'). A poem of which the Cid is the subject, composed by 'the Homer of Spain', an author whose name is unknown.
The most important of the Cid literature is the poem written about the 12th cent., and probably the oldest document in the Spanish language.
GIBSON, J. YOUNG. _Tr._ THE CID BALLADS, [AND OTHER POEMS]. _Ed._ Margaret D. Gibson. 2 v. 1887.
LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON. _Tr._ ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS. Historical and Romantic. 1823.
ORMSBY, JOHN. _Tr._ POEMS OF THE CID. 1879.
SOUTHEY, R. _Tr._ CHRONICLES OF THE CID. [Prose.] 1808.
Translated from three books, (1) 'Chronica del Cid', (2) 'Chronica Genera de España', (3) 'Poema del Cid' (composed, c. 1135-75).
=CODEX EXONIENSIS=: Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. _Ed._ Benj. Thorpe, with _tr._, 1842.
Also under =Anthologies, General=, and =Exeter Book=.
=CODEX VERCELLENSIS=, Anglo-Saxon Poetry of the. Ed. J. M. Kemble, 2 pts., with _tr._, 1843-56.
Also under =Anthologies, General= and =Vercelli Book=.
=COMENIUS (KOMENSKÝ) JOHANNES AMOS.= _b._1592, _d._ 1671. =Slavic educator and bishop.=
A CONTINUATION OF J. A. COMENIUS, SCHOOL ENDEAVOURS; or, A SUMMARY DELINEATION OF DR. CYPRIAN KINNER, Etc. _Translated_ out of the original Latine, transmitted to Sam. Hartlibb, and by him published. 1648.
THE GATE OF TONGUES UNLOCKED AND OPENED, or else A SEMINARY or SEED PLOT OF ALL TONGUES AND SCIENCES. In Latin, English and French, by J. Anchoran. 1639.
NATURALL PHILOSOPHIE REFORMED BY DIVINE LIGHT; or, A SYNOPSIS OF PHYSICS, etc. _Translated_ from the Latin, 1651.
A PATTERNE OF UNIVERSALL KNOWLEDGE, IN A PLAINE AND TRUE DRAUGHT, etc. _Tr._ into English by J. Collier, 1651.
