Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853

Notes

PARTY-SIMILES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY—NO. I. "FOXES AND FIREBRANDS." NO. II. "THE TROJAN HORSE."

TESTIMONIALS TO DONKEYS

LONGEVITY IN CLEVELAND, YORKSHIRE

REV. JOSIAH PULLEN

FOLK LORE

Minor Notes

Queries

LAURIE (?) ON CURRENCY, ETC

"DONATUS REDIVIVUS."

Minor Queries

Minor Queries with Answers

Replies

"PINECE WITH A STINK."

MONUMENTAL BRASSES ABROAD

MILTON'S "LYCIDAS."

SCHOOL LIBRARIES

CAWDRAY'S "TREASURIE OF SIMILIES," AND SIMILE OF MAGNETIC NEEDLE

"MARY, WEEP NO MORE FOR ME."

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

"THE EMPIRE,"

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY

MR. MURRAY'S FORTHCOMING WORKS

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With Englishmen, at least, the seventeenth was a century pre-eminent for quaint conceits and fantastic similes: the literature of that period, whether devotional, poetical, or polemical1, was alike infected with the universal mania for strained metaphors, and men vied with each other in giving extraordinary titles to books, and making the contents justify the title. Extravagance and the far-fetched were the gauge of wit: Donne, Herbert, and many a man of genius foundered on this rock, as well as Cowley, who acted up to his own definition:

It is not, however, for the purpose of illustrating this mania that I am about to dwell on the two similes which form the subject of my present Note: I selected them as favourite party-similes which formed a standing dish for old Anglican writers; and also because they throw light on the history of religious party in England, and thus form a suitable supplement to my article on "High Church and Low Church" (Vol. viii., p. 117.).

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The following passage occurs in A Letter to the Author of the Vindication of the Clergy, by Dr. Eachard, London, 1705:

It would be easy to multiply passages in which this simile occurs; but what I have given is suffcient for my purpose, and I must leave room for "The Trojan Horse."4

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