Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 125, March 20, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 125, March 20, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"Serpit odoriferas per opes levis aura Favoni,
Aura sub innumeris humida nata rosis,
_Talis in extremis terræ Gangetidis oris
Luciferi regis fingitur esse domus_."
Eleg. III. _In obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis_, l. 47.
And now I will give Thomas Warton's note in full. He says:
"I know not where this fiction is to be found. But our author has
given a glorious description of a palace of Lucifer in the
_Paradise Lost_, b. v. 757.:
"'At length into the limits of the North
They came, and Satan to his _royal seat_
High on a hill, far blazing, as a mount,
Rais'd on a mount, with pyramids and towers
From diamond quarries hewn, and rocks of gold,
The _Palace of Great Lucifer_, so call
That structure, in the dialect of men
Interpreted; which not long after, he,
Affecting all equality with God,
In imitation of that mount, whereon
Messiah was declar'd in sight of Heaven,
The Mountain of the Congregation call'd,' &c.
"Here is a mixture of Ariosto and Isaiah. Because Lucifer is
simply said by the prophet 'to sit upon the Mount of the
Congregation on the sides of the North,' Milton builds him a
palace on this mountain, equal in magnificence and brilliancy to
the most superb and romantic castle. In the text, _by the utmost
parts of the Gangetic land_, we are to understand the north; the
river Ganges, which separates India from Scythia, arising from the
mountain Taurus."
Some of your learned correspondents will, I doubt not, be both able and
willing to throw some light upon a difficulty which may possibly have an
indirect connexion with other difficulties also.
RT.
Warmington, Nov. 7. 1851.
_Ecclesiastical Geography._--Can any of your correspondents direct me to
some works on Ecclesiastical Geography?
AJAX.
_History of Commerce._--What work gives a history of the various courses
of commerce between Europe and the East in ancient and modern times, or
in either of them, as I cannot meet with any such book in the various
catalogues and advertisements of the day?
X. Y. Z.
Cambria.
_Merchant Adventurers to Spain._--Where can there be found any account
of a trading company called the "Merchant Adventurers to Spain," who
flourished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth?
C. I. P.
_King's College Chapel Windows._--In _The Blazon of Gentrie_, by John
Ferne, London, 1586, it is said (p. 248.):--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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