English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers

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 Between the first edition, published in March, and the second edition in October, 1809, the difference is even greater than between the first edition and 

British Bards

. The Preface was enlarged, and a postscript affixed to the text of the poem. Hobhouse's lines (first edition, 247-262) were omitted, and the following additional passages inserted, viz.:  

lines 1-96, "Still must I hear," etc.;

lines 129-142, "Thus saith the Preacher," etc.;

lines 363-417, "But if some new-born whim," etc.;

lines 638-706, "Or hail at once," etc.;

lines 765-798, "When some brisk youth," etc.;

lines 859-880, "And here let Shee," etc.;

lines 949-960, "Yet what avails," etc.;

lines 973-980, "There, Clarke," etc.;

lines 1011-1070, "Then hapless Britain," etc.

  These additions number 370 lines, and, together with the 680 lines of the first edition (reduced from 696 by the omission of Hobhouse's contribution), make up the 1050 lines of the second and third editions, and the doubtful fourth edition of 1810. Of these additions, Nos. i., ii., iii., iv., vi., viii., ix. exist in MS., and are bound up with the folio MS. now in Mr. Murray's possession.

 

 The third edition, which is, generally, dated 1810, is a replica of the second edition.

 

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