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... Chapman : -Iliad ; Visit to Chrysa . Punishment of Thamyris Drummond : -Sonnet Donne : -Song 534 537 540 54 " " Praise of Night . 544 . 547 547 550 553 " " Elegy 554 VOL . I. b CORRECTIONS . VOL . I. Page 4 , line 26 SPECIMENS . xvii.
... Chapman : -Iliad ; Visit to Chrysa . Punishment of Thamyris Drummond : -Sonnet Donne : -Song 534 537 540 54 " " Praise of Night . 544 . 547 547 550 553 " " Elegy 554 VOL . I. b CORRECTIONS . VOL . I. Page 4 , line 26 SPECIMENS . xvii.
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... line 6 from foot ; add as foot - note : " Britannia after the Romans , being an Attempt to illustrate the Religious ... lines 17 , 18 ; read " accept such rhymes as night . " 99 245 , line 3 from foot ; read " in the present form of the ...
... line 6 from foot ; add as foot - note : " Britannia after the Romans , being an Attempt to illustrate the Religious ... lines 17 , 18 ; read " accept such rhymes as night . " 99 245 , line 3 from foot ; read " in the present form of the ...
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... line , that in Thule itself people now talked of hiring rhetoricians to manage their causes . Thule , whatever may have been the particular island or country to which that name was given , was the most northern land known to the ...
... line , that in Thule itself people now talked of hiring rhetoricians to manage their causes . Thule , whatever may have been the particular island or country to which that name was given , was the most northern land known to the ...
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... line to be traced that is borrowed from Ingulphus . And this is a fact of no slight significance : - " If the work , " he remarks , " had existed , it could scarcely have been neglected by these inveterate compilers . " Of course , if ...
... line to be traced that is borrowed from Ingulphus . And this is a fact of no slight significance : - " If the work , " he remarks , " had existed , it could scarcely have been neglected by these inveterate compilers . " Of course , if ...
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