Glowing, and circumfused in speechless love, Their full divinity inadequate That feeling to express, or to improve, The gods become as mortals, and man's fate Has moments like their brightest ----" &c. &c. [Footnote 4: To these beautiful and glowing lines the author has appended the following: " Ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐστιᾶν." "Atque oculos pascat uterque suos." OVID. _Amor._ lib. iii.] It seems to me that the noble poet has condescended to avail himself of a little _ruse_ in referring to this passage of Ovid. It would have been perhaps more honest to have referred his readers to those magnificent lines in the opening address to Venus, by Lucretius, "De Rerum Naturâ," beginning,-- "Æneadum genitrix, hominum divômque voluptas, Alma Venus!" &c. I subjoin the verses which Lord Byron _really_ had in mind when he wrote the foregoing stanzas: "Nam tu sola potes tranquillâ pace juvare Mortaleis: quoniam belli fera moenera Mavors Armipotens regit, _in gremium_ qui sæpe _tuum se_ Rejieit, æterno devictus volnere Amoris: Atque _ita, suspiciens_ tereti cervice reposta _Pascit amore avidos, inhians in te, Dea, visus;_ Eque tuo pendet resupini spiritus ore. Hunc tu, Diva, tuo recubantem corpore sancto _Circumfusa super_, suaveis ex ore loquelas Funde, petens placidam Romanis, incluta, pacem." Surely if the author of _Childe Harold_ were indebted to _any_ ancient poet for some ideas embodied in the lines cited, it was to Lucretius and not to Ovid that he should have owned the obligation. A BORDERER. Minor Notes. _On the Word "raised" as used by the Americans._--An American, in answer to an inquiry as to the place of his birth, says, "I was _raised_ in New York," &c. Was it ever an English phrase? And if so, by what English writer of celebrity was it ever used? Dr. Franklin, in a letter to John Alleyne, Esq., Aug. 9, 1768, says: "By these early marriages we are blest with more children; and from the mode among us, founded in nature, of every mother suckling and nursing her own child, more of them are _raised_." JAMES CORNISH. _Contradiction: D'Israeli and Hume._-- "Rousseau was remarkably trite in conversation." _Essay on Literary Character_, vol. i. p. 213. "Rousseau, in conversation, kindles often to a degree of heat which looks like inspiration." Quoted by D'Israeli in the same vol., p. 230. JAMES CORNISH. _A Ship's Berth._--Compilers of Dictionaries have attempted to show, but I think without success, that this word has been derived from one of the meanings of the verb _to bear_. I conjecture that it has been derived from the Welsh word _porth_, a port or harbour. This word is under certain circumstances written _borth_, according to the rules of Welsh grammar. A ship's place in harbour (_borth_) is her _berth_. A sailor's place in his ship is his _berth_. S. S. S. (2) Queries.