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George Crabbe, Poems, Volume 1 (of 3)

Part 2 — ERRATA

Reading edition

[Except in the case of short poems with unnumbered lines, or in that of prefaces, mottos, notes &c. the line of the poem, not the line of the page, is cited.]

Page 1 l. 11 for chests read chiefs.

p. 3 l. 5 for she's a read she, "'s a.

p. 4 l. 2 for beaut'y read beauty's.

p. 5 l. 18 for moans read mourn.

p. 7 l. 9 for stand read stands.

p. 9 l. 1 for Shenstone's read Byrom's.

p. 14 l. 31 for nature read Nature's.

p. 20 l. 75 for devine read divine.

ib. l. 90 for unwraught read unwrought.

ib. l. 102 for pleasures read pleasure's.

p. 21 l. 116 for distant read distance.

p. 23 l. 186 for desturb read disturb.

ib. l. 196 for titt'ring read titt'rings.

ib. note for puris read purus.

p. 24 l. 214 for sits read sets.

ib. l. 226 for fall read pall.

ib. for refind read refin'd.

p. 27 l. 82 for to humble or to brave read too humble or too brave.

p. 28 l. 101 for Errors read Error's.

p. 30 l. 153 for be read by.

p. 48 l. 41 for Meonides read Mæonides.

ib. l. 54 for triump'd read triumph'd.

ib. l. 61 for Wonders read wanders.

p. 49 l. 67 for Titerus read Tityrus.

ib. l. 69 for Neareds read Nereids.

ib. l. 83 for glomiest read gloomiest.

ib. l. 87 for Thompson read Thomson.

ib. l. 89 for years Verdent read year's Verdant.

ib. l. 91 for Aspin read Aspen.

p. 50 l. 104 for Vally read Valley.

ib. l. 111 for glomier read gloomier.

ib. l. 118 for Challange read Challenge.

p. 51 l. 142 for Disapointment read Disappointment.

ib. l. 149 for Currant read Current.

ib. l. 160 for Eccho's read Echo's.

p. 52 l. 185 for ignious read igneous.

ib. l. 201 for not read out.

ib. l. 212 for ages read age's.

ib. l. 215 for ratling read rattling.

p. 53 l. 235 for Simphony read Symphony.

ib. l. 237 for Scence read Scene.

p. 55 l. 295 for Fiend, fang'd read Fiend and fang'd.

ib. l. 297 for thretned read threaten'd.

ib. l. 313 for Rotteness read Rottenness.

p. 56 l. 343 for distinguis'd read distinguish'd.

ib. l. 351 for Worldwind's read Whirlwind's.

p. 57 l. 379 for dispis'd read despis'd.

p. 59 l. 439 for beseige read besiege.

ib. l. 441 for tenaceous read tenacious.

ib. l. 446 for Death Thoughts read Death, Thought's.

ib. l. 466 for Emminence read Eminence.

p. 82 note for Od. 8 read Od. 6.

p. 87 l. 8 for Paneg. ad Pisones, Lucan read Paneg. ad Pisones.

p. 115 l. 543 for reverend read reverent.

p. 123 l. 118 for Theirs read Their.

p. 146 l. 157 for Indited read Indicted.

p. 152 l. 393 for silly read slily.

p. 155 l. 8 for teneres read teneras.

ib. l. 15. The reading in Shakspere is not furnish up, but finish up.

p. 158 l. 8 for restat read restet.

p. 161 l. 139 for cives read chives.

p. 182 l. 63 not in inverted commas.

p. 187 ll. 235-6 not in inverted commas.

p. 205 l. 270 for passion read passions.

p. 211 l. 507 for Snowden's read Snowdon's.

p. 212 ll. 551-2 not in inverted commas.

p. 230 l. 214 for One read one.

p. 232 l. 319 for Reubens read Rubens.

ib. l. 320 for shall read shalt.

p. 237 l. 96 for If read In.

p. 238 l. 11. I'll know no more, not printed as beginning of new stanza.

p. 239 l. 36 not printed as beginning of new stanza.

ib. not in inverted commas.

p. 251 l. 4 for 22 read 22 and 23.

p. 252 l. 5 for dolor read labor.

p. 256 l. 4 for deplorant read deplangunt.

p. 257 l. 22 for elmin read elmen.

p. 284 l. 7 for scenes read place hath.

ib. l. 15 for discutient read discutiunt.

ib. l. 17 for ver. 520 read vv. 519-523.

p. 289 l. 154 (Lonely yet public stands) not enclosed sic in brackets.

p. 292 l. 299 for suceeds read succeeds.

p. 301 l. 266 for thoughts and spirits read thoughts' and spirit's.

p. 303 l. 13 for of read o'er.

ib. l. 14 for while read whilst.

p. 307 l. 132 for Comes read Come.

p. 313 l. 6 for Churches read Church's.

ib. l. 12 for knew read know.

ib. l. 14 for Oh! read Ah!

p. 327 l. 528 for staid read stay'd.

p. 328 l. 12 for xxvii. read xxviii.

p. 329 l. 6 for leader read captain.

ib. l. 8 for beer: all read beer ... all.

ib. ib. for I read and I.

ib. ll. 10, 11 for and they shall all worship me as read and worship me.

p. 336 l. 7 for Manilius read Plaut. Trucul.

p. 340 l. 114 for professions read professions'.

p. 347 instead of ll. 4, 5 read as in text: Finirent multi letho mala; credula vitam Spes alit, et melius cras fore semper ait.

p. 364 l. 6 for Catull, lib. 3 read (Dionys.) Cato De Moribus III. 7.

ib. l. 7 for fatiscat read fatiscit.

p. 374 l. 14 for Et read Sed.

ib. for juncta read multa.

p. 407 l. 7 for pool read pond.

ib. l. 9 is followed in Shakspere by the line: 'Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit.'

p. 417 l. 5 for quia read quam.

ib. l. 12 for tibi read cui.

ib. l. 15 for blessing read blessings.

p. 422 l. 147 for reverend read reverent.

p. 428 l. 114 for blissing read blessing.

p. 431 l. 5 six lines follow after 'Burning Lamp.'

ib. for wast read wert.

ib. l. 7 five lines follow after this fire.

ib. 'An everlasting bonfire light!' follows after 'perpetual triumph.'

ib. l. 8 for in a read with thee in the.

p. 439 l. 4 for who read that.

ib. l. 5 for in time read in the time.

p. 451 l. 71 for birth read berth.

p. 480 l. 4 for Coepis read Coepisti.

ib. for desines read desinis.

p. 485 l. 166 for then read than.

p. 502 l. 7 for my read our.

p. 512 l. 24 six lines follow after at taw.

p. 519 l. 250 for illude read elude.

p. 524 l. 452 for Quixotte! read Quixote!

The (mis)quotation from Ovid in p. 5 cannot be identified; the lines quoted on p. 284 as 'Pope's Homer's Iliad, bk. vi. line 45' are not to be found in that work; and the stanza attributed on p. 294 to Percy is not traceable to the Reliques.

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