Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853

Notes

TOM MOORE'S FIRST!

NOTES ON SEVERAL MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS

VERNEY PAPERS—THE CAPUCHIN FRIARS, ETC

EARLY SATIRICAL POEM

THE LETTERS OF ATTICUS

Minor Notes

Queries

"THE LIGHT OF BRITTAINE."

Minor Queries

Replies

BISHOP BUTLER

MITIGATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO FORGERS

MYTHE VERSUS MYTH

"INQUIRY INTO THE STATE OF THE UNION, BY THE WEDNESDAY CLUB IN FRIDAY STREET."

UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAM BY SIR W. SCOTT (?)

CHURCH CATECHISM

JACOB BOBART, ETC

"ITS."

BOHN'S EDITION OF HOVEDEN

BOOKS OF EMBLEMS

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE

MR. POLLOCK'S DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING POSITIVE PHOTOGRAPHS UPON ALBUMENISED PAPER

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY,

GILBERT J. FRENCH,

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It is now generally understood that the first poetic effusion of Thomas Moore was entrusted to a publication entitled Anthologia Hibernica, which held its monthly existence from Jan. 1793 to December 1794, and is now a repertorium of the spirited efforts made in Ireland in that day to establish periodical literature. The set is complete in four volumes: and being anxious to see if I could trace the "fine Roman" hand of him whom his noble poetic satirist, and after fast friend, Byron, styled the "young Catullus of his day," I went to the volumes, and give you the result.

No trace of Moore appears in the volume containing the first six months of the publication; but in the "List of Subscribers" in the second, we see "Master Thomas Moore;" and as we find this designation changed in the fourth volume to "Mr. Thomas Moore, Trinity College, Dublin!" (a boy with a black ribband in his collar, being as a collegian an "ex officio man!"), we may take it for ascertained that we have arrived at the well-spring of those effusions which have since flowed in such sparkling volumes among the poetry of the day.

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If you think this fruit of a research into a now almost forgotten work, which however contains many matters of interest (among the rest, "The Baviad of Gifford"), worth insertion, please put it among "N. & Q.;" it may incite others to look more closely, and perhaps trace other "disjecta membra poetæ."

Most judiciously does Nares reject Gifford's corruption of this word into charm, nor will the suffrage of the "clever" old commentator one jot contribute to dispel their diffidence of this change, whom the severe discipline of many years' study, and the daily access of accumulating knowledge, have schooled into a wholesome sense of their extreme fallibility in such matters. Without adding any comment, I now quote, for the inspection of learned and unlearned, the two ensuing extracts:

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