10. Corbyn Morris’ Essay towards Fixing
the True Standards of Wit,
etc. (1744). (I, 4) [#16233]
11. Thomas Purney’s Discourse on the Pastoral (1717). (II, 4) [#15313]
12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction
by Joseph Wood
Krutch. (III, 4) [#16335]
Third Year (1948-1949)
13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), The Theatre (1720). (IV, 1) [#15999]
14. Edward Moore’s The Gamester (1753). (V, 1) [#16267]
15. John Oldmixon’s Reflections on Dr.
Swift’s Letter to Harley
(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’s
The British Academy (1712). (VI, 1)
16. Nevil Payne’s Fatal Jealousy (1673). (V, 2)
17. Nicholas Rowe’s Some Account of
the Life of Mr. William Shakespear
(1709). (Extra Series, 1)
[#16275]
18. Aaron Hill’s Preface to The Creation;
and Thomas Brereton’s
Preface to Esther.
(IV, 2) [#15870]
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[Transcriber’s Corrections:
ARS title page: Publication
Number 20
text reads 19, corrected by hand to 20.
“Number 20” agrees with
later years’ ARS publication lists.
vii: before he could write full
Many.
text reads Man .
xxiv: that surprizing Knowledge of
human Nature
text reads surpizing
xlii: its Causes, (which takes in
a great Number
text has blank space
before “which” at beginning of line
lv: the Look of a Visor
text reads the Look
o a with extra blank space
Also Noted:
xii: intirely synonomous Terms
spelling “synonomous”
as in original
xvii: the Stanza’s sung by
the Gravedigger
apostrophe in original
xxiii: frustraq; laboret
abbreviation “q;”
(-que) as in original
xxxvii: Sidenote: The old Editions
faulty, whence.
exact text as in original
lxi: For Safety lent him on the watry
Waste,
no apostrophe in “watry"
ARS List of Publications: Preface
to Shakespeare’s Works
wording as in original
]