Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current LiteratureCollins, John Churton
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Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature
Collins, John Churton
Criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; Literature -- History and criticism
THOMSON, James, 243;
quoted, 248;
claim to the authorship of _Rule Britannia_ vindicated, 321-8;
corrections in the _Seasons_ discussed, 328-34
THORPE, Thomas, 216: 227: 235
TOVEY, Rev. D. C., his edition of Thomson’s poems reviewed, 318-34
TREMENHEERE, Mr. J. H. A., his version of Catullus’ Love Poems, 335-50
TRISSINO, his _Sofonisba_, 123
THUCYDIDES, 258: 260;
on hope, 262
TUPPER, Martin, 251
TYLER, Mr. Thomas, on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 228
TYRWHITT, Thomas, 223: 234
UNIVERSITIES, their indifference to
the interests of literature, 38-40: 45-50;
effects of the exclusion of the Greek and Roman Classics from
the so-called Schools of Literature at Oxford and Cambridge, 55-71
VARRO, as a critic, 278
VIRGIL, his beautiful descriptions of Nature, 245-6;
his Eclogues, 308-17
VOLTAIRE on Philologists, 86
WALTERS, Cuming, on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 220-1
WARBURTON, Bishop, 205;
quoted, 270
WARTON, Dr. Joseph, on Thomson’s poetry, 330
WARTON, Thomas, on Lydgate, 98
WATSON, Mr. William, great beauty of his English hexameters, 317
WHARTON, Dr., his _Sappho_, 148
WILLMOTT, Rev. Aris, his _Gems from English Literature_, 163-4
WILLOUGHBY, his _Avisa_, 101: 225
WORDSWORTH, William, 153;
on Dyer’s poetry, 248;
his poems on classical legends, 298
WORSFOLD, Mr. Basil, his _Principles of Criticism_ reviewed, 270-82
WRANGHAM, Archdeacon, 310
WRIGHT, Dr. Aldis, his edition of Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_, 84-92
WRIGHT, Mr. W. H. Kearley, his _West Country Poets_ reviewed, 301-7
WYNTOWN, his _Chronicle_, 180-1
XENOPHON on women, 290
YOUNG, Edward, quoted, 87
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Corrections:
Page 81 “Hamlet, act iv. sc .1” should be sc. 5 (There is pansies)
The following errors have been corrected in the text.
Page 8 changed ‘Jasserand’ to ‘Jusserand’ (done M. Jusserand
grave injustice)
Page 63 added space (Addington Symonds)
Page 90 added single quotes (The rest is silence.’ ‘O, O,)
Page 90 changed ‘than’ to ‘that’ (it would be more natural that)
Page 96-7 moved double quotes from (evicit gurgite moles,”)
to end of last line (armenta trahit.”)
Page 97 added opening double quotes (“Not sa fersly)
Page 101 added double quotes (Lord_, 1790.” _A Letter to)
Page 107 changed ‘”)’ to ‘)”’ (teeth of its subject)”. “His voluminous)
Page 184 added comma (and the few outsiders, whether)
Page 205 added single quote (Warburton on Shakespeare.’”)
Page 212 added comma (every alley green,)
Page 252 changed ‘charactistic’ to ‘characteristic’ (distinctive
feature is the characteristic)
Page 321 changed comma to period (both these questions.)
Page 326 changed period to semicolon (Britain’s wide domain;)
The following inconsistencies have been left as printed.
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