Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

NOTES

TRANSLATIONS OF JUVENAL—WORDSWORTH

DEDICATION TO MILTON BY ANTONIO MALATESTI

PULTENEY'S BALLAD OF "THE HONEST JURY."

NOTES ON MILTON

FOLK LORE

NOTES ON COLLEGE SALTING; TURKISH SPY; DR. DEE; FROM "LETTERS FROM THE BODLEIAN, &c." 2 VOLS. 1813

MINOR NOTES

QUERIES

CALVIN AND SERVETUS

ETYMOLOGICAL QUERIES

MINOR QUERIES

REPLIES

TOBACCO IN THE EAST

"JOB'S LUCK," BY COLERIDGE

ECCIUS DEDOLATUS

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

Notices to Correspondents

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Mr. Markland's ascertainment (Vol. i., p. 481.) of the origin of Johnson's "From China to Peru," where, however, I sincerely believe our great moralist intended not so much to borrow the phrase as to profit by its temporary notoriety and popularity, reminds me of a conversation, many years since, with the late William Wordsworth, at which I happened to be present, and which now derives an additional interest from the circumstance of his recent decease.

Some mention had been made of the opening lines of the tenth satire of Juvenal:

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On l. 494. (G.) The same sort of compliment occurs in Wither's Sheperd's Hunting. (See Gentleman's Mag. for December 1800, p. 1151.)

He adds:—

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