LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND
BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1812.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.
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Original page numbers are given in curly brackets. Footnotes have been relocated to the end of the book. Passages originally rendered in small-caps have been changed to all-caps in the text version of this work.
Alterations: [pp. 168, 191] Correct misspellings of Edward Moor’s last name; [p. 194] change “battel” to “battle”; and [p. 237] change “Son and Moon” to “Sun and Moon”.
TO
THE AUTHOR OF GEBIR,
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR,
THIS POEM IS INSCRIBED,
BY
ROBERT SOUTHEY.
Στησατε μοι Πρωτηα πολυτροπον, οφρα φανειη Ποικιλον ειδος εχων, οτι ποικιλον υμνον αρασσω. Νον. Διον.
for i will for no man’s pleasure change a syllable or measure; pedants shall not tie my strains to our antique poets’ veins; being born as free as these, i will sing as i shall please. George Wither.