Incognita Author:William Congreve Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TEXTUAL EMENDATIONS THE following list enumerates such obvious misprints in the edition of 1692 as have been tacitly corrected in the present text. The list i... more »s of no interest to the general reader, and is given merely as a guarantee that the text has been altered only where evident misprints occur. The sign stands for " has been emended to." Page 14, line 16, degress digress: 20, 26, Leonora's Leonora's : 31, 18, Ballace Pallace: 48, 14, Lithargy Lethargy: 56, 16, Monastry Monastery: 60, 6, Hallow Hollow: 65, 25, shook took. Mispunctuation: Page 12, line 21, who, who : 14, 2, darkness. About darkness, about: 15, II, them. They th'em, they: 28, 26, Poets, Poets. : 37, 25, Heavens Heaven's: 40, 36, suppose suppose, : 43, 25, Duke Duke,: 65, 29, Condition, Condition ; : 65, 30, her; her, Printed in Great Britain by Hatell, Watson Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury. I. THE VNFORTVNATE TRAVELLER, OR, THE LIFE OF JACKE WILTON. BY THOMAS NASHE, 1594. G. ' " The Unfortunate Traveller" is a masterpiece of direct narrative . . . the source of unfailing pleasure in this book is Nashe's way of telling his yarns. If "The Unfortunate Traveller" were not, in itself, as good fun as it remains to this day, it would still be important in the history of English prose and the English novel.'—The Times Lit. Sup. II. GAMMER GVRTONS NEDLE. BY MR. S., MR. OF ART [PROBABLY WILLIAM STEVENSON], 1575. O, ' Mr. Brett-Smith has edited the text with scrupulous care, correcting oversights found in even the most critical of previous editions, so that one of the plays most frequently reprinted appears now for the first time in a perfectly authentic form.'— The Manchester Guardian. III. PEACOCK'S FOUR AGES OF POETRY. SHELLEY'S DEFENCE OF POETRY. BROWNING'S ESSAY ON ...« less