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"Adjectis istiusmodi notis nitori paginae detractum fore existimavimus."

— Joseph Trapp

January 1, 1970

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Clergy Poets from England Anglicans from the United Kingdom University of Oxford faculty

Original Language: English

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The elegance of the page would be diminished by notes. — Preface to Praelectiones Poeticae (1711) — The translation into English is given in Evelyn Tribble's "‘Like a Looking-Glas in the Frame’: From the Marginal Note to the Footnote", in The Margins of the Text, ed. D. C. Greetham (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), p. 232, as reported in William W. E. Slights's Managing Readers (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001), p. 8

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The elegance of the page would be diminished by notes. — Preface to Praelectiones Poeticae (1711) — The translation into English is given in Evelyn Tribble's "‘Like a Looking-Glas in the Frame’: From the Marginal Note to the Footnote", in The Margins of the Text, ed. D. C. Greetham (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), p. 232, as reported in William W. E. Slights's Managing Readers (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001), p. 8