Notes and Queries, Number 174, February 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 174, February 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
A. B. C. A Blessed Change.
D. E. F. D-- Every Foreigner.
G. H. J. Get Home Jemmy.
K. L. M. Keep Loyal Ministers.
N. O. P. No Oppressive Parliaments.
Q. R. S. Quickly Return, Stuart; and
Quell Rebellious Subjects.
T. U. W. Tuck Up Whelps (Guelfs).
X. Y. Z. Exert Your Zeal.
Your correspondents, myself among the number, in the case of Shenstone
(Vol. vi., pp. 414. 465.), ought well to consider the narrow limits which
can be afforded weekly in your pages, and not desire to insert in them what
may be easily found elsewhere. Bishop Pursglove's epitaph, which fills an
entire column at p. 135., has been given, 1. in the _Gentleman's Magazine_
for December 1794, p. 1101.; 2. in Lysons's _Derbyshire_; and 3. in the
beautiful volume of monumental brasses published by the Cambridge Camden
Society, where it is accompanied by a most interesting memoir. When some of
your correspondents look with anxiety for the appearance of a Note and
Query of three lines, and do not find it, this occupation of space is
rather unreasonable, as well as needless.
J. H. M.
_Consecrators of English Bishops_ (Vol. vii., p. 132.).--I believe that the
following is, as far as it goes, a correct answer to the Query of A. S. A.
The bishops assisting the Primate were:
Feb. 27, 1842, Lincoln and Llandaff; April 28, 1844, London, Bangor,
Worcester; May 4, 1845, London, Lincoln, Lichfield, Rochester, Hereford,
and Bishop Coleridge late of Barbadoes; July 5, 1846, London, Lichfield,
Calcutta.
The consecration of December 3, 1843, like all those before mentioned, took
place in the archbishop's private chapel in Lambeth Palace.
S. R. MAITLAND.
_Chatham's Language_ (Vol. vii., p. 127.).--I suppose you will receive many
answers to H. G. D.'s question, as to the authorship of the lines quoted by
Lord Lansdowne; but "what is everybody's business is nobody's;" and,
therefore, I venture to say that, with a slight difference, they are from
Cowper's _Task_, b. ii. 235. I think {221} the whole passage ought to be
embalmed in your pages amongst the other memorials of Wolfe:
"Time was when it was praise and boast enough
In every clime, and travel where we might,
That we were born her children: _praise enough_
To fill the ambition of a private man,
_That Chatham's language was his mother tongue,_
_And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own_.
Farewell those honours, and, farewell with them
The hope of such hereafter. They have fallen
Each in his field of glory: one in arms,
And one in council. Wolfe upon the lap
Of smiling victory, that moment won,
And Chatham, heart-sick of his country's shame.
They made us many soldiers. Chatham still
Consulting England's happiness at home,
Secured it by an unforgiving frown,
If any wrong'd her. Wolfe, where'er he fought,
Put so much of his heart into his act,
That his example had a magnet's force,
And all were swift to follow whom all lov'd."
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