Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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page 98 of 211 (46%)
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As a later example we may cite from
Sir Peter Leycester's _Historical Antiquities_ (1673), where we find this note: ``Reader, By reason of the author's absence, several faults have escaped the press: those which are the most material thou art desir'd to amend, and to pardon them all.'' Printed mistakes are usually considered by the sufferers matters of somewhat serious importance; and we picture to ourselves an author stalking up and down his room and tearing his hair when he first discovers them; but Benserade, the French poet, was able to make a joke of the subject. This is the _rondeau_ which he placed at the end of his version of _Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide_:-- ``Pour moi, parmi des fautes innombrables, Je n'en connais que deux consid Et dont je fais ma d C'est l'entreprise et l'ex A mon avis fautes irr Dans ce volume.'' According to the _Scaligerana_, Cardan's treatise _De Subtilitate_, printed by Vascosan in 1557, does not contain a single |
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