The Works Of Virgil. Rendered into English Prose, with Introductions, Notes, Running Analysis, and an Index. By JAMES LONSDALE, M.A., and SAMUEL LEE, M.A. pp. 228.
"_A more complete edition of Virgil in English it is scarcely possible to conceive than the scholarly work before us._"--GLOBE.
The Works Of Horace. Rendered into English Prose, with Introductions, Running Analysis, Notes, and Index. By JAMES LONSDALE, M.A., and SAMUEL LEE, M.A.
_The STANDARD says, "To classical and non-classical readers it will be invaluable._"
Milton's Poetical Works.--Edited, with Introductions, by Professor MASSON.
"_In every way an admirable book._"--PALL MALL GAZETTE.
Variant spellings of William Shakspeare's name have been standardized in the text, but not in the advertisements at the end of the book.
The following words use an oe ligature in the original:
Boeotian Breboeuf manoeuvre manoeuvres Phoebus
The following corrections have been made to the text:
page 6: Like so many other poets, he took[original has comma] infinite delight in
page 14: his companions could practice[original has practise] with comparative impunity
page 17: we have already[original has aleady] reached
page 25: refine as the reasoning faculties develop[original has develope]
page 50: Addison gave to Lady M. W. Montagu[original has Montague]
page 51: _Ib._, March[original has comma] 25
page 54: when dying in distress[original has distres]
page 55: Addison recognizes[original has recognises] his true character
page 66: philologists and antiquarians in the background[original has back-ground]
page 73: He allows Teucer to call Hector a dog, but apologizes[original has apologises] in a note.
page 84: for his neglect of Popish superstition[original has supersition]
page 86: he was familiar[original has familar] with Bridgeman and Kent
page 125: what the authors would have suppressed[original has suppresed]
page 125: he was like a civilised[original has civilized] commander
page 126: either to shirk responsibility[original has reponsibility]
page 127: and how successive[original has sucessive] editions
page 135: installed Cibber in[original has in in] his place
page 146: was simply a reproduction of[original has comma] Curll's publication