Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851

Notes

A WORD TO THE LITERARY MEN OF ENGLAND

THE ESSAY ON SATIRE

MACKLIN'S ORDINARY AND SCHOOL OF CRITICISM

"LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST (Act II. Scene 1.)

NOTES ON NEWSPAPERS

MR. GOUGH'S TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE

Minor Notes

Queries

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Minor Queries

Replies

CARDINAL'S MONUMENT

BOOTY'S CASE

THE CONQUEST

DESCENT OF HENRY IV

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

John Miller's Catalogue of Books, Old and New,

Отрывок из книги

I call upon the literary men of England, upon the English government, and upon the public, to set the example in a glorious expedition, which, even in this age of wonders, is one of no little importance and magnitude. I conjure them to bear in mind the words I have placed at the head of this article,—the opinion of one of our best and most delightful authors. This opinion Mr. Landor, veiled under the eidolon of Porson, I feel assured, does not hold alone; I believe it to be engraven on the "red-leaved tablets" of the hearts of many more learned and more distinguished scholars than myself, who am but as the trumpet which is to rouse the friends of classical literature to action; as the bell which awakens the reaper to his abundant harvest: but I will sustain, that on none of them is it cut more deeply or more inextinguishably than on mine.

I propose that the friends of Classical, Scandinavian, and Oriental literature form themselves into an Association for the Rescue of the many ancient MSS. in the Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norwegian, Zend, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Abyssinian, Ethiopian, Hindostanee, Persian, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Turkish, and Chinese languages:—that application be made to government for the pecuniary furtherance of this enterprise;—and that the active co-operation of all foreign literary men be secured.1

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In 1717, Mr. Tonson published Poems by the earl of Roscommon; and added thereto the Essay on poetry, "with the leave and with the corrections of the author." The lines shall now be given in their amended state, as they appear in that volume, with the accompanying notes:—

Next to Dryden and the earl of Mulgrave, as authorities on this question, comes the elder Jacob Tonson. Both writers were contributors to his Poetical miscellanies. In 1701 he published Poems on various occasions, etc. By Mr. John Dryden. The volume has not the Essay on satire. The same Tonson, as we have just seen, gave currency to the assertion that Dryden was "ignorant of the whole matter."

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