Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
"_The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong_" (Vol. iv., p. 125).--I
cannot concur in MR. CROSSLEY'S conjecture that the _marks of quotation_
affixed to this line in the eighteenth book of the _Dunciad_ may have
been a mere _error of the press_; because, in the first place, I do not
find that the _Dunciad_ is more negligently printed than other works of
the day. I should say rather less so; but (which is more important) any
one who will look at the successive editions will, I think, be satisfied
that the _remarkable typography_ of the line, carefully reproduced in
_all_, could not be accidental. This matter is less trifling than it at
first sight may seem, because there are several lines in Pope's works
similarly marked as quotations, on which questions have arisen; and my
belief is that everything so marked will turn out to have really been a
_quotation_, though in this case, and in that other,
"No Lord's anointed but a Russian bear,"
we have, as yet, failed to find the original.
C.
_Fairlight Church_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--The old church was Early
English; the original windows were lancet-shaped. It was built, like all
the adjoining churches, of stone; but it had been repaired with brick,
and the roof of the tower had been covered with tiles instead of
shingles. The earliest brick building in Sussex, after the Roman period,
is Herstmonceux Castle, built by Sir Roger de Fynes, treasurer of the
household to Henry VI.
W. D. COOPER
_Dogmatism and Puppyism_ (Vol. iv, p. 102).--The quotation your
correspondent writes about to be found in MR. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S _A Man
Made of Money_, p. 252.:
"'Robert, my dear,' said Jenny, with the deferential air of a
scholar, 'Robert, what did Mr. Carraways mean when he said he
hated dog--dogmatism?' Topps was puzzled. 'Robert, my dear,' Jenny
urged, 'what--what in the world is dogmatism?' Now it was the
weakness of Topps, never to confess ignorance of anything soever
to his wife. 'A man should never do it,' Topps had been known in
convivial seasons to declare; 'it makes 'em conceited.' Whereupon
Topps prepared himself, as was his wont, to make solemn,
satisfying, answer. Taking off his hat, and smoothing the wrinkles
of his brow, Topps said, 'Humph! what is dogmatism? Why, it is
this, of course: dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.'"
ED. STEANE JACKSON.
Saffron Walden, Aug. 10.
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