Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850

NOTES

ORIGIN OF A WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE IN HUDIBRAS

FIELD OF THE BROTHERS' FOOTSTEPS

ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, NO. 4

RECEIPTS TO THE BEGGAR'S OPERA ON ITS PRODUCTION

NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON

SEWERAGE IN ETRURIA

ANDREW FRUSIUS—ANDRÉ DES FREUX

OPINIONS RESPECTING BURNET

QUERIES

SAINT THOMAS OF LANCASTER

SHIELD OF THE BLACK PRINCE—SWORD OF CHARLES I

FRATERNITYE OF VAGABONDES—REV. MR. GENESSE—RED MAIDS

THE NAME OF SHYLOCK

TRANSPOSITION OF LETTERS

PICTURES OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AND CHARLES I. IN CHURCHES

FLAYING IN PUNISHMENT OF SACRILEGE

MINOR QUERIES

MISCELLANIES

MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL REVIEW

NO. I., FOR 1850, OF JOHN MILLER'S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, OLD AND NEW,

Отрывок из книги

The often-quoted lines—

generally supposed to form a part of Hudibras, are to be found (as Mr. Cunningham points out, at p. 602. of his Handbook for London), in the Musarum Deliciæ, 12mo. 1656; a clever collection of "witty trifles," by Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith.

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A second edition was printed by John Kingston, in 1564, with no other variation, I believe, than in the orthography. Haslewood, in a note on the fly-leaf of my copy, says:—

The work consists of only two books of the original, comprising the apophthegms of Socrates, Aristippus, Diogenes, Philippus, Alexander, Antigonus, Augustus Cæsar, Julius Cæsar, Pompey, Phocion, Cicero, and Demosthenes.

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