Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851

NOTES

AUTHORSHIP OF HENRY VIII

THE CAVALIER'S FAREWELL

GRAY'S ELEGY

THE NINEVEH MONUMENTS AND MILTON'S NATIVITY ODE ILLUSTRATED FROM LUCIAN

MINOR NOTES

QUERIES

SONNET (QUERY, BY MILTON) ON THE LIBRARY AT CAMBRIDGE

BURYING IN CHURCH WALLS

MINOR QUERIES

REPLIES

DRAGONS

ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY NAME OF BACON

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES

MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

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In my last communication on the subject of Henry VIII., I referred to certain characteristic tricks of Fletcher's style of frequent occurrence in that play, and I now beg leave to furnish you with a few instances. I wish it, however, to be understood, that I advance these merely as illustrative specimens selected at random; as there is scarcely a line of the portions of the play I assume to be Fletcher's but would furnish some evidence to a diligent student of this writer's style: and that, although I think each separate instance as strongly characteristic of Fletcher as it is unlike Shakspeare, it is only in their aggregate number that I insist upon their importance.

The first instance to which I call attention is the use of the substantive "one" in a manner which, though not very uncommon, is used by no writer so frequently as Fletcher. Take the following:—

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In one scene of Henry VIII., Act I. 3., the expression occurs twice: "One would take it;" "There, I take it."

Of a peculiar manner of introducing a negative condition, one instance from Fletcher, and one from Henry VIII. in reference to the same substantive, though used in different senses, will suffice:

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