A dialogue between Alexander the Great & Diogenes the Cynic
| dc.contributor | Farringdon, Michael Department of Computer Science, University College of Swansea |
| dc.contributor.author | Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:32:43Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:32:43Z |
| dc.date.created | 1743 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2272 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2272 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website Title proper taken from printed documentation Publication based on this text: A computer-aided study of the prose style of Henry Fielding and its support for his translation of The military history of Charles XII / Michael Farringdon, Jill Farringdon. -- p. 95-105. In Advances in computer-aided literary and linguistic research : proceedings of the fifth international symposium on computers in literary and linguistic research held at the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK from 3-7 April 1978 / edited with an introduction by D.E. Ager, F.E. Knowles, Joan Smith. -- Aston : University of Aston, Department of Modern Languages, 1979. -- ISBN 0-903807-64-5. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
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| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Dialogues -- Great Britain -- 18th century |
| dc.title | A dialogue between Alexander the Great & Diogenes the Cynic |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.size | 14755 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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<A FIELDING> <T MDIOGENES> <P 226><L 1> ALEXANDER WHAT FELLOW ART THOU, WHO DAREST THUS TO LIE AT THY EASE IN OUR PRESENCE, WHEN ALL OTHERS, AS THOU SEEST, RISE TO DO US HOMAGE? DOST THOU NOT KNOW US? DIOGENES I CANNOT SAY I DO: BUT BY THE NUMBER OF THY ATTENDANTS, BY THE SPLENDOR OF THY HABIT; BUT, ABOVE ALL, BY THE VANITY OF THY APPEARANCE, AND THE ARROGANCE OF THY SPEECH, I CONCEIVE THOU MAYST BE ALEXANDER THE SON OF PHILIP. ALEXANDER AND WHO CAN MORE JUSTLY CHALLENGE THY RESPECT, THAN ALEXANDER, AT THE HEAD OF THAT VICTORIOUS ARMY, WHO HATH PERFORMED SUCH WONDERFUL EXPLOITS, AND UNDER HIS CONDUCT HATH SUBDUED THE WORLD? DIOGENES WHO? WHY THE TAYLOR WHO MADE ME THIS OLD CLOAK. <P 227><L 1> ALEXANDER THOU ART AN ODD FELLOW, AND I HAVE A CURIOSITY TO KNOW THY NAME. DIOGENES I AM NOT ASHAMED OF IT: I AM CALLED DIOGENES; A NAME COMPOSED OF AS MANY AND AS WELL SOUNDING SYLLABLES AS ALEXANDER. ALEXANDER DIOGENES, I REJOYCE AT THIS ENCOUNTER9 I HAVE HEARD OF THY NAME, AND BEE . . .
