Robert Samber (1682—c. 1745) was a British writer and translator. He is credited with the first English translation of the Mother Goose tales. He is also...
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translated from French, "Contes de ma mere l'Oye" into English in 1729 by Robert Samber as "Tales of Mother Goose." "Nursery Rhymes". Oxford University Press...
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Children. The story was first published in English as Little Poucet in Robert Samber's 1729 translation of Perrault's book, "Histories, or Tales of Past Times"...
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survives, uses his fortune to give dowries to her sisters. In 1729, Robert Samber translated the volume into English, Histories, or Tales of Past Time...
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Mother Goose stories. An English translation of Perrault's collection, Robert Samber's Histories or Tales of Past Times, Told by Mother Goose, appeared in...
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by the bookseller Henry Rhodes, Fleet Street. Another translation by Robert Samber was published in London in October 1724, not without its fair share...
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temps passé (1697) is translated into English for the first time, by Robert Samber as Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose. It includes...
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circles through alchemical mystic Robert Samber (1682–1745), who used the pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes; Samber's use, in turn, was an homage to Thomas...
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Mythology, and Legends II (1950), pp. 751ff. "Isaiah Thomas reprinted Robert Samber's Histories or Tales of Past Times, Told by Mother Goose (London, 1729)...
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Present State of the Republick of Letters for October 1730, from which Robert Samber drew his information for a verse eulogy on Orford in 1731: also he wrote...
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