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Excerpt from Early Latin Hymns: With Introduction and NotesIn two things I have departed from Mr Walpole's intention. The first is in regard to textual criticism. I have explained in the section on the Text what resolu tion he had come to, and why it seemed to me unsatis factory. The second point concerns the contents. Mr Walpole designed to give m an appendix, without note or comment, a number of Latin hymns which did not come into the defini...

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As the correspondents in volumes 15 and 16 were brought together under the category of 'antiquaries, ' those in this volume may be classed as 'virtuosi, ' although 'lawyer' would suit Hardinge better. Lord Wharncliffe's description of Lord Strafford as 'eminently skilled in architecture and virtu' also fits Chute, Bentely, Lord Harcourt, and Sir William Hamilton.

Excerpt from Early Latin Hymns: With Introduction and Notes In two things I have departed from Mr Walpole's intention. The first is in regard to textual criticism. I have explained in the section on the Text what resolu tion he had come to, and why it seemed to me unsatis factory. The second point concerns the contents. Mr Walpole designed to give m an appendix, without note or comment, a number of Latin hymns which did not come into the defi...

A few clays before his death he sent me all his notes for the present book, with the request that I would prepare the book for publication and see it through the press. In some ways this was not difficult for me to do. For more than twenty years we had worked at the hymns together. Again and again I had been allowed to go at leisure through the successive drafts of his commentary, criticizing and suggesting, so that I was fairly acquainted wit...