Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Satirical Prints; Pope_ (Vol. vi., p. 434.).--I have never seen this print
that your correspondent refers to. It will no doubt be found, however, to
be a plate illustrating a _scene_ in the following tract: "_A Letter from
Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, &c._: London, printed and sold by W. Lewis in
Russell Street, Covent Garden, 1742," see pp. 45, 46, 47, 48, 49., where is
given rather a warm description of the whole scene. Should this tract not
be had by GRIFFIN, he may turn to D'Israeli's _Quarrels of Authors_,
article "Pope and Cibber," note p. 193., col. 2., edit. 8vo., Moxon, 1840;
where D'Israeli adds:
"This story, by our comic writer, was accompanied by a print, that was
seen by more persons, probably, than read the _Dunciad_."
S. WMSON.
_Raising the Wind_ (Vol. vi., p. 486.).--We say "the wind rises," and this
is common in Virgil (see _Æneid._ iii. 130. 481.; v. 777.: _Georgics_, i.
356.; ii. 333.; and iii. 134.). The transition from rising to raising is
easy; and as there is no sailing without a breeze, so there is no getting
along without money: in both cases, the _wind_ is essential to progress. As
to the mode of obtaining the "needful," I know not much, but probably
whistling will be found as effectual in one case as in the other.
B. H. COWPER.
_Milton in Prose_ (Vol. vi., p. 340.).--I know of one performance in the
French language, which answers the description of _Milton in Prose_: it is
a rhapsody entitled _Le Paradis Terrestre, Poëme imité de Milton_, by
Madame Dubocage: London, 1748. The French themselves had so poor an opinion
of it, that one of their wits, the Abbé Yart, has ridiculed it in the
following epigram:
"Sur cet écrit, charmante Dubocage,
Veux-tu savoir quel est mon sentiment?
Je compte pour _perdus_, en lisant ton ouvrage,
Le Paradis, mon temps, ta peine, et mon argent."
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia.
_The Arundelian Marbles_ (Vol. iv., p. 361.).--MR. W. SIDNEY GIBSON, in his
account of this celebrated collection, quotes portions of an interesting
letter, from James Theobald to Lord Willoughby de Parham, but he does not
say from whence he obtained it. I have now before me two copies, one in
_Historical Anecdotes of the Howard Family_, a new edition, 1817, p. 101.;
the other in a work entitled _Oxoniana_ (published by Richard Phillips, 4
vols. 12mo., no date), vol. iii. p. 42. Now both these copies differ from
MR. GIBSON'S, and all three are at variance respecting some of those minor
details which are of so much importance in inquiries of this description.
Where is a _genuine_ copy of Mr. Theobald's letter to be found?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_Pambotanologia_ (Vol. vi., p. 462.).--INIVRI will find a full account of
this work in Pulteney's _Historical and Biographical Sketches of the
Progress of Botany in England_, vol. i. p. 181.
GEORGE MUNFORD.
East Winch.
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