Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Osiander, 1537. | Macknight, 1756.
Jansen, 1549-72. | Bengel, 1766.
Chemnitz, 1593. | Buesching, 1766.
Lightfoot, 1644. | Bertlings, 1767.
Van Til, 1687. | Priestley, 1777.
Lamy, 1689. | Schutte, 1779.
Le Roux, 1699. | Stephan, 1779.
Le Clerc, 1700. | Michaelis in his New Test.
May, 1707. | Rullmann, 1790.
Von Canstein, 1718-27.| Griesbach, 1776-97.
Rus, 1727-30. | White, 1799.
Hauber. | De Wette, 1818.
For other Harmonies, see Mr. Horne's _Bibliog. Index_, p. 128. Heringa
considers that the following writers "have brought the four Evangelists
into an harmonious arrangement, namely:
Hesz, 1784. | Stronck, 1800.
Bergen 1804.| Townsend, 1834.
And especially as to the sufferings and resurrection of Christ:
Voss, 1701. | Michaelis (translated by Duckett, 1827).
Iken, 1743. | Cremer, 1795.
T. J. BUCKTON.
Birmingham.
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Ammonius, an Egyptian Christian nearly cotemporary with Origen (third
century), wrote a Harmony of the four gospels, which is supposed to be
one of those still extant in the _Biblioth. Max. Patrum_. But whether
the larger Harmony in tom. ii. part 2., or the smaller in tom. iii., is
the genuine work is doubted. See a note to p. 97. of Reid's _Mosheim's
Ecclesiastical History_, 1 vol. edition: London, Simms and McIntyre,
1848.
CHRIS. ROBERTS.
Bradford, Yorkshire.
* * * * *
SMALL WORDS AND LOW WORDS.
(Vol. ii., pp. 305. 349. 377.; Vol. iii., p. 309.)
A passage in Churchill, and one in Lord John Russell's _Life of Moore_,
have lately reminded me of a former Note of mine on this subject. The
structure of Churchill's second couplet must surely have been suggested
by that of Pope, which formed my original text:
"Conjunction, adverb, preposition, join
To add new vigour to the nervous line:--
In monosyllables his thunders roll,--
He, she, it, and, we, ye, they, fright the soul."
_Censure on Mossop._
Moore, in his Journals, notes, on the other side of the question,
conversation between Rogers, Crowe, and himself, "on the beauty of
monosyllabic verses. 'He jests at scars,' &c.; the couplet, 'Sigh on my
lip,' &c.; 'Give all thou canst,' &c. &c., and many others, the most
vigorous and musical, perhaps, of any." (Lord John Russell's _Moore_,
vol. ii. p. 200.)
The frequency of monosyllabic lines in English poetry will hardly be
wondered at, however it may be open to such criticisms as Pope's and
Churchill's, when it is noted that our language contains, of
monosyllables formed by the vowel _a_ alone, considerably more than 500;
by the vowel _e_, about 450; by the vowel _i_, nearly 400; by the vowel
_o_, rather more than 400; and by the vowel _u_, upwards of 260; a
calculation entirely exclusive of the large number of monosyllables
formed by diphthongs.
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