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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1895 Excerpt: ... cheerfully wave (i.e. waive) them al1." In several instances, however, he writes waive correctly; cf. p. 61, 1. 10, and To Newton, April 19 and June 5, 1788. I. 16. handsome, 'ample, unstinted'; cf. 'a handsome subscription.' II. 16, 17. returned the visit. To Mrs. Jones's at Clifton Reynes (in the neighbourhood of Olney), a place of which Mr. Jones was the clergyman. 1. 21. I had rather, etc. Cowper means that he had rather have any faults in his verses pointed out to him before publication, than have them stigmatized by the critics afterwards. 1. 22. Johnson. See Introduction, p. xlii. In a later letter (Aug. 25) Cowper says that Johnson "uses the discretion my poetship has allowed him, with much discernment," and has "marked several defective passages, which I have corrected, much to the advantage of the poems." 1. 23. a marginal Q. A "Q," or?, in the margin denotes "Query," expressing a doubt as to the correctness of the passage so marked. 1. 29. fritter it, 'break it up' (uselessly). A fritter (from Lat. frictus, 'fried') is a slice for frying; hence 'to fritter' is 'to reduce to slices,' and so 'to waste,' as in 'to fritter one's time away.' 1. 33. the sheets, i. e. the proof sheets of his poems. Page 18, 1. 3. Memorandum-Book, etc. See The Progress of Error, 11. 373, 374. I. 6. "down deny down." Words, musical but meaningless, used as the chorus or burden to a song. Scott (Ivanhoe, Cap. xvii.) says that "the chorus of 'derry down' is supposed to be as ancient as the times of the Druids." Cf. the XVIth century song of " The Three Ravens ":--'There were three ravens sat on a tree, Down a down, hey-down, hey-down; They were as black as they might be, With a down. And one of them said to his make 'Where shall we our breakfast take'? With a down derry, de...
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