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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: NOTES TO CANTO V. Note i. The ocean stream. Page C, stanza ill. This expression of Homer has been much criticised. It hardly answers to our Atlantic ideas of the ocean, but is sufficiently applicable to the Hellespont, and the Bosphorus, with the .35gean intersected with islands. Note a. The Giant's Grave. Page 7, stanza v. The Giant's Grave is a height on the Adriatic shore of the Bosphorus, much frequented by holiday parties: like Harrow and Highgate. Note 3. And running out as fast as I was able. Page 18, stanza xxxiii. The assassination alluded to took place on the eighth of December, 1820, in the streets of R, not a hundred paces from the residence of the writer. The circumstances were as described. Note 4. Kitl'd by five bullets from an old gun-barrel. Page 18, stanza xxxiv. There was found close by him an old gun-barrel, sawn half off: it had just been discharged, and was still warm. Note 5. Prepared for supper with a glass of rum. Page 26, stanza liii. In Turkey nothing is more common than for the Mussulmans to take several glasses of strong spirits by way of appetizer. I have seen them take as many as six of raki before dinner, and swear that they dined the better for it; I tried the experiment, but was like the Scotchman, who having heard that the birds called kittiewiaks were admirable whets, ale six of them, and complained hat he was no o hungrier than when he began. Note 6. Splendid but silent, save In one, where, dropping, A marble fountain echoes. Page 26, stanza Iv. A common furniture.?I recollect being received by AH Pacha, in a room containing a marble basin and fountain, etc. etc. etc. Note 7. Tho gale so splendid was in all Its features. Page 38, stanza Ixxxvu. Features of a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217828116 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217828116 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 154 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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