{2} I have made a rich selection of examples from the works of living
English and American authors. From the inextensive volumes of an eminent
and fastidious critic I have culled a dear phrase about an oasis of style
in "a desert of literary limpness." But it were hardly courteous, and
might be dangerous, to publish these exotic blossoms of art.

{3} _Appreciations_, p. 18.

{4} It was the custom of Longinus, of the author of _The Bathos_, and
other old critics, to take their examples of how _not_ to do it from the
works of famous writers, such as Sir Richard Blackmore and Herodotus. It
seems altogether safer and more courteous for an author to supply his own
Awful Examples. The Musical Rights in the following Poems are reserved.

{5} Or, if you prefer the other rhyme, read: _And the wilderness of
men_.

{6} It is a teachable public: since this lecture was delivered the
author has received many MSS. from people who said they had heard the
discourse, "and enjoyed it so much."