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Excerpt from Vox Clamantis a Comparison Analytical and Critical Between the Columbus at Seville of Joseph Ellis of and the Columbus of the Poet Laureate
But it so happened, that I possessed an old discarded commonplace - book, in which, from time'to time, I had copied passages from works that pleased me, - principally short poems and extracts from longer ones. Tennyson's volume had long since been laid aside, when one day this book of extracts came under my notice while engaged in sorting and destroying papers. Should I preserve that little book? I glanced at its contents carelessly at first and then attentively; the words Columbus at Seville' met my gaze, and under this heading a selection of passages in blank verse taken from a volume entitled 'caesar in Egypt' dated, ln my own handwriting, October 12th, 1878. I took from the shelf Tenny son's 'ballads and other Poems, ' and re-reading the 'columbus' of 1880, carefully compared it with the extracts I had made from 'columbus at Seville.' And what did I discover? That they were one and the same thing? No! Not quite. But I discovered something very startling, something which sent me off post-haste to a bookseller's shop, there to order Caesar in Egypt' in its complete form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
