Please paste the following in your copy of Corbyn Morris's _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit_....
(_ARS_, Series One, No. 4)
ERRATA
INTRODUCTION:
page 5, line 1--"word apparently omitted" should be inclosed in brackets.
page 5, line 6--"not identified" should be inclosed in brackets.
page 6, line 5--the first "of" should be omitted. ["modern readers need not regret too much of the omission of the fulsome 32 page dedication"]
page 6, line 12, should read "Walpole is praised for not curbing the press while necessarily curbing the theatre, his aid to commerce". ["Walpole is praised for not curbing the theatre; his aid to commerce"]
page 6, line 25--"sic" should be inclosed in brackets, as also "P.L. 7. 363-66" in the next line.
[ ESSAY ON WIT:
page viii: Whence in _Aristotle_ such Persons are termed "epidexioi", dexterous Men The Greek _may_ read "epidezioi"; the letter-form makes it uncertain.
page 14: ... without any Reference to their whimsical _Oddities_ or _Foibles_; Text reads _Oddistie_.
page 20 and elsewhere: "Biass" is an attested variant spelling; it has not been changed.
page 25: "teizes" (modern "teases") is an attested variant spelling; it has not been changed.
page 40: --It is therefore no wonder that Signior _Don Quixote of la Mancha_ ... Text reads _Quoxote_. ]
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An ESSAY
Towards Fixing the TRUE STANDARDS of WIT, HUMOUR, RAILLERY, SATIRE, and RIDICULE.
To which is Added, an ANALYSIS Of the CHARACTERS of
An HUMOURIST, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger De Coverly, and Don Quixote.
Inscribed to the RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT Earl of ORFORD.
By the AUTHOR of a LETTER from a BY-STANDER.
---- _Jacta est Alea_.
LONDON:
Printed for J. ROBERTS, at the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-lane; and W. BICKERTON, in the Temple-Exchange, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, Fleet-Street.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit,
- 2: The following Ode upon WIT is written by Mr
- 3: Which is the chief Part of this Ode
- 4: Men of facile or versatile Manners
- 5: Whereas ELEGANCE consists in the compt
- 6: Wherein can be found any Assemblance or Congruity
- 7: And not accompanied with Surprize
- 8: Addison therein gravely remarks
- 9: And only discourses upon the HUMOUR
- 10: Suppose MOROSE to be a Man naturally splenetic
- 11: He is different from that Falstaff
- 12: Which can be fairly collected from it
- 13: In the quick Elucidation of one Subject
- 14: Or if more Points be elucidated
- 15: Leonidas the Spartan General
- 16: As a Coalpit with clean Linnen
- 17: HUMOUR is any whimsical Oddity or Foible
- 18: Whereas an HUMOURIST is a Person in real Life
- 19: It is also observable that the Humourist
- 20: The Humourist is constitutionally
- 21: With the Dye of the Humourist
- 22: HUMOUR generally appears in such Foibles
- 23: Sir Jobn Falstaff possesses Generosity
- 24: With such chearful and amiable Oddities and Foibles
- 25: Shakespear some new Species of Foible and Oddity
- 26: And become mean and despicable
- 27: The hardy Atchievements to be accomplish'd by this Hero
- 28: Humour and Raillery united together
- 29: Certe nescio quid secreto velle loqui te Aiebas mecum
- 30: And carried the Raillery upon Horace
- 31: And privately communicating to Voiture
- 32: Raillery is the most agreeable
- 33: Or any other Person in that Foible
- 34: Transcriber's Note Translations of Horace Satire I
- 35: Publications for the first year 1946 1947 may