``With thought sublime
And high sonorous words, thou sweetly sing'st
To thy _immoral_ lyre.''

On another page of this same book
Watts' ``daring flight'' is transposed to
_darling flight_.

In Miss Yonge's _Dynevor Terrace_ a
portion of one word was joined on to
another with the awkward result that a
young lady is described ``without stretched
arms.''

The odd results of the misplacement of
stops must be familiar to most readers;
but it is not often that they are so serious
as in the following instances. William
Sharp, the celebrated line engraver,
believed in the Divine mission of the madman
Richard Brothers, and engraved a portrait of
that worthy with the following inscription
beneath it: ``Fully believing this to be the
man appointed by God, I engrave his