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per's _Letters Concerning Taste,_ 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's _Miscellanies_ (1770). [13464] SIXTH YEAR (1951-1952) 31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751); and _The Eton College Manuscript_. [15409] 32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudery's Preface to _Ibrahim_ (1674), etc. [14525] 33. Henry Gally's _A Critical Essay_ on Characteristic-Writings (1725). [16299] 34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785). 35. James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. _Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch_ (1763). [15857] 36. Joseph Harris's _The City Bride_ (1696). [22974] SEVENTH YEAR (1952-1953) 37. Thomas Morrison's _A Pindarick Ode on Painting_ (1767). [IN PREPARATION] 38. John Phillips' _A Satyr Against Hypocrites_ (1655). 39. Thomas Warton's _A History of English Poetry_. 40. Edward Bysshe's _The Art of English Poetry_ (1708). 41. Bernard Mandeville's "_A Letter to Dion_" (1732). 42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ERRATA (Noted by transcriber) _As printed:_ _Introduction:_ The editor's name, printed "Roestvig", is more correctly Rostvig. _Latin:_ The use of oe and ae in words such as "moestus" is in the original. Accents are variously acute ', grave ` or circumflex ^, with no apparent difference in meaning. Some do not even mark long syllables. _English:_ Variation between -w- and -vv- is as in the original. _Typography:_ In both languages, titles were randomly Italic or Roman. Italicization (or de-italicization) of 's in possessives is also random. _Introduction_ an interesting combination of Stoic and Platonic ideas [_"of / of" at line break_] _Odes_ _All headers were in the form "Ode 2, Lib. 1" with the poem number given before the Book number. They have been conventionalized for this Errata list._ Lib. 1 Ode 1 Cum infestae Thracum Copiae Pannonia excessissent. [_"Co./piae" for "Co-/piae" at line break_] The threats of cruell Warre now cease:, [_punctuation unchanged_] Lib. 1 Ode 2 [title] de adversa fortuna [adverfa] Unmanly howlings, _Lycuas_, leave, [_error for Lycas or Lycus (English title has "Lycas"; Latin has "Lycus")_] Lib. 1 Ode 13
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