Page 141.
'Beneath them vanishes the ground.'
This is another Virgilian licence, the ground ('solum') being put for the water under the ship.
Page 143.
'Inwoven there the 'princely boy.'
Page 157.
'And gaze delighted, as they trace
A parent's mien in each fair face.'
'The shouting crowds admire their charms, and trace
Their parents' lines in every lovely face.' Pitt.
Not long before, Pitt has a line 'Around their brows a vivid wreath they wore.' So it appears in all the editions that I have consulted; but I can scarcely doubt that 'vivid' should be 'virid,' though the latter word is more after the manner of Spenser or Milton than of eighteenth century poetry.
Page 185.
'Foul Penury, and Fears that kill.'
'The fear that kills,
And hope that is unwilling to be fed.'
Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence.
Page 195.
'His ears cut off.'
I find too late that I have written 'ears' inadvertently for 'hands.'
Page 250.
'Or those whom fair Abella sees
Down-looking through her apple-trees.'
'And where Abella sees
From her high towers the harvest of her trees.'
Dryden
