THE BLUSHFUL HIPPOCRENE.
TO ( tW» CDITOB Of TBS PEISB Sir,—Yon have occasionally urged that people who quote should quote accurately, bo I think your contributor, "JME.B.," last Saturday, May 24th, when he quoted "Blackwood's" misquotation of: O far a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, tho blushful Eippocrene, should have appended - the correct version, if he did not wish to make the correction. What Keats had in mind was apparently the moderate use of wine producing a pleasant flush, whereas contributor, with his "blissful," appears to have thought of "its immoderate use, resulting in reduction to absolute bliss;— Yours, etc., .-'""■ :: -...' : ...'." ..' . ■. D.E.C. ' . May 30th; 1930..
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19942, 31 May 1930, Page 17
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