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Oberpriller Meuler rankling at rusama.com
Thu Sep 30 03:08:54 CEST 2010


N actual eighteenth-century writer, who, moreover, claimed to have
founded his story on a contemporary incident. Burton, nevertheless,
had told it before him, as
early as 1621, in the _Anatomy of Melancholy_. "_In Babylonian numbers
hidden._"--Page 180. "--nec Babylonios

Tentaris numeros." Hor. i., 11. "_And spite of the

mourning that
most of us wear._"--Page 259. In March,

1773, when _She Stoops to Conquer_ was first played, there was a
court-mourning for the King of

Sardinia (Forster's _Goldsmith_, Book iv. Chap. 15). "_But he grows
every
day more and more like the print._--Page 259. "Mr.
_Wilkes_, with his usual good humour, has been heard to observe, that
he is every day growing more and more like his portrait by _Hogarth_
(i.e.
the print of May 16th, 1763)." _Biographical Anecdotes of William
Hogarth_, 1782, pp. 305-6. Transcriber's
Notes: Ah, Postumus, we
all must go: 'Postumus' unchanged. 'Posthumous' is current spelling.

Hyphenation of the following unchanged: chairmen chair-men Masterpiece
Master-piece recall re-call End of
the Project Gutenberg EBook of Collected Poems, by Austin Dobson
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