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Epigrams

Here are entered collections of epigrams. Works on the epigram as a literary form are entered under the heading Epigram.

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• Platitudes in the Making: Precepts and Advices for Gentlefolk (reprint; original published London: D.J. Rider; New York: M. Kennerly, 1911), by Holbrook Jackson (page images (with notes added by a reader) at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Thousand and One Epigrams, Selected From the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1911), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quodlibets, by Robert Hayman (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Aphorisms on Man (second edition; London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Johnson, 1789), by Johann Caspar Lavater, ed. by Henry Fuseli (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Introduction to Wysedome (London: T. Berthelet, 1544), by Juan Luis Vives, trans. by Richard Morison, contrib. by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Table-Talk of John Selden (second edition; London: J. R. Smith, 1856), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Weller Singer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Table Talk of John Selden (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Harvey Reynolds (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Minims: or, Man is the Only Animal That Wears Bow Ties (1982), by Tom Weller (illustrated HTML at tweller.com)

• Ovid's Elegies, by Ovid, trans. by Christopher Marlowe (HTML at Perseus)

• Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, ed. by J. W. Mackail (Gutenberg text)
• Martial und die Griechische Epigrammatik (only volume published, in German; Vienna and Leipzig: A. Holder, 1911), by Karl Prinz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Poems of Meleager of Gadara (London: The Egoist Press, 1920), by Meleager, trans. by Richard Aldington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Minor Poems of Homer: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice; Hymns and Epigrams (with introductions by Coleridge and a Life of Homer spuriously attributed to Herodotus; New York: A. Denham and Co., 1872), by Homer, trans. by Thomas Parnell, George Chapman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Congreve, Richard Hole, and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, contrib. by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Pseudo-Herodotus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Philodemos = Philodemos: His Twenty-Nine Extant Poems, by Philodemus, trans. by George Economou (HTML at Light and Dust)

• Ausonius, With an English Translation (2 volumes; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919-1921), by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, trans. by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, contrib. by Paulinus of Pella
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (includes Paulinus of Pella's "Eucharisticus"): multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Poems of Catullus (New York: Covici-Friede, c1931), by Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. by Horace Gregory, illust. by Zhenya Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carmina, by Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. by Richard Francis Burton (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus (London: Printed for the translators, 1894), by Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. by Richard Francis Burton and Leonard C. Smithers (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Poems and Fragments of Catullus, Translated in the Metres of the Original (London: J. Murray, 1871), by Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. by Robinson Ellis (Gutenberg text)

• Ludvig Holbergs Moralske Tanker (Danish translations and notes on Latin epigrams; Copenhagen: K. Schønberg, 1859), by Ludvig Holberg, ed. by Gotfred Benjamin Rode
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, trans. by Joseph Jacobs (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Reflections: or, Sentences and Moral Maxims (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1871), by François La Rochefoucauld, trans. by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (Gutenberg text)
• The Economy of Human Life (this edition attributed to Dodsley, with illustrations "by F. Howard, Harvey, Williams, etc."; London: John van Voorst, 1834), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by F. Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, in Two Books (this edition attributed to Dodsley; London: Printed for Shirley, Neely, and Jones, et al., 1809), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Frederick Mackenzie, W. M. Craig, and Thomas Uwins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life: Translated From an Indian Manuscript, Written by An Ancient Bramin (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; London: Printed for T. Tegg, 1811), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Manner in Which the Said Manuscript Was Discovered (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1807), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Alexander Anderson (page images at Google)
• The Wisdom of Life, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• The Wanderer (1932), by Kahlil Gibran (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Sayings of the Wise, or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered From the Ancient Philosophers (London: E. Stock, 1908), by William Baldwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, Contayning the Sayings of the Wyse (London: E. Whitchurche, 1547)
  • negative page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
• The Gulistan of Sa'di, by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union (6th edition, 2 volumes; Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856), by John Bouvier
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (L-Y and index): multiple formats at Google

• The Way to Wealth (Nottingham: Printed by C. Sutton, ca. 1800), by Benjamin Franklin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Counsels and Maxims, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)

• Our Hypocritical New National Motto "In God We Trust": A Study of the Congressional Substitution for "E Pluribus Unum" and its Theological Implications (New York: Exposition Press, 1963), by Abbott Boone (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903), ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt, contrib. by Alice Meynell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nachlese zu den Devisen für Deutschlands Gelehrte, Künstler etc. (in German; 1773), by Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wikiquote (electronic edition, collaboratively updated) (HTML at wikiquote.org)
• Geflügelte Worte (in German; Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1880), by Georg Büchmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Geflügelte Worte (in German; Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1882), by Georg Büchmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2011), by Ruth H. Finnegan
  • multiple formats at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google

• Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Adam Roberts (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Dying Hours of Good and Bad Men Contrasted (1854), ed. by Daniel P. Kidder (PDF in Australia)
• Infidel Death-Beds (New York: Truth Seeker Company, ca. 1910), by G. W. Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, Alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and A Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest (St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841), ed. by A. B. Chambers, contrib. by Madison Henderson, James W. Seward, Alfred Amos Warrick, and Charles Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man (1795), by Edmund Fortis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 20th Day of October, 1790, for a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last (New Haven, CT: T. and S. Green, 1790), by Joseph Mountain, ed. by David Daggett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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