Author:John Ozell

John Ozell
(17th century – 1743)

Works

• The Augean Stables cleansed of Historical, Philological, and Geographical Trumpery
• Ozell's Defence
• Common Prayer not Common Sense, in several Places of the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Latin, and Greek Translations of the English Liturgy. Being a Specimen of Reflections upon the Omissions and Errors in the said translations (1722)

Translations

• Monsieur de Porceaugnac; or Squire Trelooby (1704), by Molière
• Characters Historical and Panegyrical of the Greatest Men that Have Appear'd in France, During the Last Century (1704), by Charles Perrault (external scan)
• Boileau's Lutrin: a mock-heroic poem. In six cantos. Render'd into English verse. To which is prefix'd some account of Boileau's writings, and this translation. (1708), by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (external scan)
• The Jealous Estremaduran (1710), by Miguel de Cervantes
• Le Clerc's Account of the Earl of Clarendon's History of the Civil Wars (1710)
• Dialogue upon Colouring (1711), by R. de Piles
• The Works of Monsieur Boileau... to which is prefixed his Life by Mr. Des Maizeaux (1712), by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
• Iliad, done from the French of Madame Dacier (1712), by Homer, in 5 vols.
• Britannicus and Alexander the Great (1714), by Racine
• The Cid; or the Heroic Daughter (1714), by Pierre Corneille
• The Litigants: a Comedy (1715), by Racine
• The most celebrated Popish Ecclesiastical Romance; being the Life of Veronica of Milan (1716), by Freyre
• Cato of Utica: a Tragedy (1716), by Des Champs
• Dissertation upon the Whigs and Tories (1717), by Rapin Thoyras
• Logic; or the Art of Thinking (1717), by Nicole
• The Spanish Pole-Cat (1717), by Castillo Solorzano
• The Fair of Saint Germain (1718)
• M. Misson's Memoirs and observations in his travels over England with some account of Scotland and Ireland (1719), by Francis Maximilian Misson (external scan)
• Manlius Capitolinus: a Tragedy (1719), by De la Fosse
• The History of Don Quixote,' a revision of Motteux's translation (1717), by Miguel de Cervantes
• The History of the Revolutions that happened in the Governments of the Roman Republic (1720), by D'Aubeuf
• An Essay concerning the Weakness of the Human Understanding (1725), by Huet
• Spanish Amusements (1727), by Castillo Solorzano
• Persian Letters (1730), by Montesquieu
• The Cheats of Scapin (1730), by Molière
• The Miser: a Comedy (1732), by Molière
• The Adventures of Telemachus (1735), by François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
• The Art of Pleasing in Conversation (1736), by Ortigue de Vaumorière
• The Works of Rabelais (Urquhart's translation), revised and compared with the new edition of M. Le Du Chat (1737)
• The Life of Cervantes (1738), by Mayáns y Siscár
• A Voyage into the Levant, Perform'd by Command of the Late French King, Containing the Antient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago, as Also of Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor, with Plans of the Principal Towns and Places of Note, an Account of the Genius, Manners, Trade, and Religion of the Respective People Inhabiting Those Parts, and an Explanation of Variety of Medals and Antique Monuments, Illustrated with Full Descriptions and Curious Copper-Plates of Great Numbers of Uncommon Plants, Animals, &c. and Several Observations in Natural History... to Which Is Prefix'd, The Author's Life, in a Letter to M. Begon, as Also His Elogium, Pronounc'd by M. Fontenelle, before a Publick Assembly of the Academy of Sciences, Adorn'd with an Accurate Map of the Author's Travels, Not in the French Edition (1741), by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (external scan)
• Spanish Rhodomontades (1741), by Brantôme

Works about Ozell

• "Ozell, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.