Literary Blunders eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 144 pages of information about Literary Blunders.

Literary Blunders eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 144 pages of information about Literary Blunders.

p 219 Errata (lists of), 78-99.  Estienne’s (Henri) joke over a misprint, 152.  Etymologies (absurd), 9.  Ewing’s (Bishop) Argyllshire Seaweeds, 74.  Examined, blunders of the, 157.

Faith, definition of, 158
Faraday (Sir Michael), 41. 
Featley’s (Dr. Daniel) Romish Fisher Caught in
     his own Net
, 96. 
Field the printer’s blunders, 139.
Finis Coronat opus, 61. 
Fitzgerald (Fighting), 32. 
Fletcher’s The Nice Valour, 96. 
Fonseca and Carolino, Guide of the Conversation, 205.
Foreigners’ English, 188-213. 
Foulis’s edition of Horace, 98. 
French kings, anointing of the, 35.

Galt’s Lives of the Players, 45
Garnett’s Florilegium Amantis, 75. 
Gascoigne’s (George) Droomme of Doomes Day, 91. 
Ghost words, 2. 
Girardin’s epitaph on Shenstone at Ermenonville, 212. 
Gladstone’s (Mr.) Gleanings of Past Years, 38. 
Glanvill’s (Joseph) Essays, 86.
``God save the King,’’ new verse by a Frenchman, 211. 
Goldsmith’s blunders, 31,

p 220
Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, translation of a line in, 56. 
Gordon (J.  E. H.) and B. A. Cantab, 69. 
Greatrakes (Valentine), blunder in his name, 118. 
Greeley’s (Horace) bad writing, 126. 
Grolier not a binder, 19.

Haggard ’s (Rider) King Solomon’s Mines, 74. 
Hales’s (Prof.) observations on misprints, 131. 
Hall’s (John) Hor Vaciv, 117. 
Halliwell-Phillipps’ Dictionary of Misprints, 80, 101. 
Harrison’s (Peter) bull, 29. 
Henri II. not a potter, 19. 
Herodote et aussi Jazon, 49. 
Heywood’s (Thomas) Apology for Actors, 83. 
Hirudo for hirundo, 48.
Hit or Miss, 53. 
Holy Gruel for Holy Grail, 149. 
Homeric poems, author of the, 158. 
Hood’s lines on misprints, 151. 
Hood (Thomas), Geometricall Instrument called a Sector, 82. 
Hook’s (Dean) bad writing, 123. 
Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity, corrections by the author, 93. 
Hopton’s (Arthur) Baculum Geodticum Viaticum, 83. 
Horse-shoeing husbandry for horse hoeing, 149. 
Hotel-keepers’ English, 192. 
Howell’s (J.) Deudrologia, 75. 
Huet, ``ancient’’ Bishop of Avranch, 51.

p 221 Hugo’s (Victor) translation, 50.  Hunt’s (Leigh) specimens of misprints, 148.  Hyett s{sic} Flowers from the South, 74.

Ibn Roshd = Averrhoes, 54
Immoral for immortal, 120.
Independent Whig, 53.
``Indifferent justice,’’ 42. 
Insurrection for resurrection, 133.

Jefferies (Judge) said to have presided at the trial
     of Charles I., 37. 
Job’s wish that his adversary had written a book, 58. 
Jonson’s (Ben) Every Man in his Humour, 95. 
Juvenal, edition of, with the first printed errata, 78.

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