Timber Or Discoveries: Made Upon Men and Matter (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Timber or Discoveries: Made Upon Men and Matter

Colonel Cunningham's edition and Professor Morley's, will be found under the notes, together with emendations of Mr. Swinburne and others.

While as many references as possible have been verified, the notes of the present edition do not pretend to have exhausted the allusions with which the text is literally brist ling. If any apology be deemed necessary, I can but urge the words of so capable and scholarly a critic as William Gifford (works of jonson, ed. Cunningham, 11. P. 51) The variety and extent of Jonson's reading are altogether surprising nothing seems to have been too poor and trifling, too recondite and profound, for his insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge. It is but seldom, and even then acci dentally, that I can fall in with him: the general range of his wide and desultory track is to me nearly imperceptible.

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