Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
In the list of translators of the Bible in 1611, as given in the
Introduction to Jameson's _Glossary of the Holy Scriptures_, appears the
name "Burleigh, M.A.," but without any biographical notice, as in the
other instances.
In Burn's _Livre des Anglois à Génève_, it is stated that John Bodleigh,
the father of the celebrated Sir Thomas Bodley, was one of the
translators of the Bible.
Can any of your readers throw light on the history of either of these
men, or kindly point to any sources of information respecting them?
S. S. S.
37. _Dr. Thomas Johnson._--Can your readers give me _any_ particulars of
_Dr. Thomas Johnson_, the editor of _Gerarde's Herbal_? I do not require
such information as I can obtain concerning him in Wood's _Athenæ
Oxonienses_, or Pulteney's _Sketches of Botany_; but I especially wish
for some information relative to his place of burial, and whether there
is any monumental or other record of its whereabout. He died from a
wound he received during a _sortie_ from Basing House on the 14th of
September, 1644.
GAMMA.
38. "_You Friend drink to me Friend._"--Can you inform me in what
collection of glees I shall find an old one, the burden or chorus of
which is--
"The more we love good liquor, the merrier we shall be?"
I think the first line is--
"You friend drink to me friend, and I friend drink to thee."
AN M. D.
39. _The Latin Termination "aster."_--Can any of your correspondents
tell me why the termination _aster_ is used in a depreciatory sense in
Latin, as _poetaster_, a bad poet; _oleaster_, the wild olive;
_pinaster_, the wild pine? With regard to this latter substantive, I
have seen the mistake made in a descriptive catalogue of the pine
species, of calling this the _star pine_; but I have no doubt that it
was named _pinaster_, as inferior to the stone pine, or _Pinus pinea_,
which embellishes the Italian gardens, while the _pinaster_ flourishes
on the mountains and the sea-coast.
Probably other examples may be found where the terminal _aster_ is used
in a similar sense.
A BORDERER.
40. _Portrait of Dryden._--Can any of your correspondents or readers
inform me where any _undoubted_ original portrait of John Dryden is to
be found? Malone, Dryden's biographer, enumerates seven or eight
portraits, and he states where they were in 1800. I am aware that two
are in the Bodleian Gallery at Oxford, the one stated by Malone "painter
unknown;" and the other alleged to be by Kneller; but I do not consider
the latter to be an original. I wish more particularly to know who has a
_half-length_ original portrait. Dryden was painted by Kneller,
Closterman, and Riley.
BEVILLE.
41. _Inscription on a Claymore out in 1745._--On the retreat of the
Highland army from England in 1746, Prince Charles Edward and his staff
passed through Dumfries, and slept in a house now known as the
Commercial Inn.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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