Literary Blunders eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 144 pages of information about Literary Blunders.

Literary Blunders eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 144 pages of information about Literary Blunders.

Lamartine’s Girondins, translation of, 54. 
Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, 45. 
Lane’s (E.  W.) good writing, 123. 
La Rochefoucauld as Ruchfucove, 53. 
Layamon’s Brat for Brut, 149. 
Le Berceau, an imaginary author, 67
Leigh’s (Edward) table of errata, 79. 
Leviticus supposed to be a man, 17. 
Leycester’s (Sir Peter) Historical Antiquities, 97. 
Littleton’s Latin Dictionary, 10. 
Lodge’s (Prof.  Oliver) series of examination papers 174
Logotypes, 113.

p 222 London (William) not a bishop, 67.  Louis XIV., blunder of, 171. ——­Secret Memoirs of the Court of, blunder in 55 Louis XVIII., Mmoires de, blundes in, 33. Love’s Last Shift, 52.

Macaulay’s blunder as to the Faerie Queene, 39.
——­opinion of Goldsmith’s blunders, 31. 
Malherbe’s epitaph on Rosette, 145. 
Mantissa, an imaginary author, 67. 
Marmontel’s Moral Tales, 51. 
Maroni’s (P.  V.) The Opera, 73. 
Marriage Service, misprint in, 8. 
Marvell’s Rehearsal Transprosed, 122.
Men of the Time, misFrint in, 155. 
Me’nage on bad writirlg, 122. 
Mephistopheles, 151. 
Milton said to have written the Inferno, 42
Misprints, 100-156.
——­(intentional), 155. 
Mispronunciations, 22. 
Misquotations, 21.
Miss ac Misselis Anatomia, 1561, book with
     fifteen pages of errata, 79.
Mistakes, A New Booke of, 1637, 24. 
Monosyllabic titles, 40. 
Morgan’s (Silvanus) Horologiographia Optica, 85. 
Morton’s Natural History of Northamptonshire, 89.
Mourning Bride, 52. 
Murray’s (Dr.) ghost words, 6.

p 223 Murrell’s Cookery, 1632, 112.  Musical Examinations, blunders in, 164

Napier’s bones, 38. 
Napoleon III. said to be Consul in 1853, 35
Nash’s Lenten Stuffe, 93. 
Nicholson (Dr. Brinsley) on authors correcting
     their own proofs, go, 95. 
Nicolai a man not a place, 65. 
Nova Scotia for New Caledonia, 51.

Oxford Music Hall supposed to be at Oxford, 17.

Paine (Tom) confused with Thomas Payne, 67. 
Paris Exhibition 1889, English guide to, 200. 
Passagio (G.) not an author, 68. 
Peacham’s (Henry) The Mastive, 95. 
Pickle (Sir Peregrine), 34. 
Picus of Mirandula, edition of his works has the
     longest list of errata on record, 78. 
Playford’s John) Vade Mecum, 87. 
Poluglossos, 208. 
Pope’s lines, misprint in, 125. 
Porcelain, etymology of, 9. 
Porson’s Catechism of the Swinish Multitude, 130. 
Printers’ upper and lower cases, 110, 111. 
Proofs corrected by authors in the sixteenth and
     seventeenth centuries, 89.

Prynne’s Brevia Parliamentaria, 60. 
Pythagoras as Peter Gower, {no page #}

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