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Author:
| Byron, George Gordon |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-81379-2 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $14.65 |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES TO CANTO X. Note i, page 3g, stanza xm. Would scarcely join again die reformadocs, etc. Reformers, or rather Reformed. The Baron Bradwardine in Waverley is authority for the word. Note 2, page 45 stanza xv. The endless sool bestows a lint far deeper etc. Query, suit Printer's Devil. Note 3, page 4,...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES TO CANTO X. Note i, page 3g, stanza xm. Would scarcely join again die reformadocs, etc. Reformers, or rather Reformed. The Baron Bradwardine in Waverley is authority for the word. Note 2, page 45 stanza xv. The endless sool bestows a lint far deeper etc. Query, suit Printer's Devil. Note 3, page 4, stanza xvm. The Dee, the Don, Balgounie's Brig's black wall, etc. The brig of Don near the auld toun of Aberdeen, with its one arch and its black deep salmon stream below, is in my memory as yesterday. I still remember, though perhaps I may misquote, the awful proverb which made rne pause to cross it, and yet lean over it with a childish delight, being an only son, at least by the mother's side. The saying as recollected by me was this, but I have never heard or seen it since I was nine years of age. a Brig of Balgounie, black's your wa, Wi' a wife's ae son, and a mcar's acfoul, Douu ye shall fa ? VOL. III. -r Note 4, page 46, stanza xxxiv. Oh for a forty-parson power to chaum elc. A metaphor taken from the forty-horse power of a steam-engine. That mad wag the Reverend S. S. sitting by a brother clergyman at dinner, observed afterwards that his dull neighbour had a twelve- parson power of conversation. Note 5, page 4y, stanza xxxvi. . To strip the Saxons of their hjdes, like tanners, etc. Hyde.?I believe a hyde of land to be a legitimate word, and as such subject to the tax of a quibble. Note 6, page 5i, stanza Xlix. Was given to her favourite, and now bore his. The empress went to the Crimea accompanied by the Emperor Joseph in the year?I forget which. Note 7, page 54, stanza Lviii. Which gave her dukes the graceless name of Biron. In the Empress Anne's time Biron her favourite assumed the name and arms of the ...