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    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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      Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. - George Bell

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      Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851

             A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,

                    Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

      Author: Various

      Editor: George Bell

      Release Date: April 6, 2012 [EBook #39393]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, DEC 13, 1851 ***

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      Vol. IV.—No. 111.

      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

      FOR

      LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

      When found, make a note of.—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

      VOL. IV.—No. 111.

      SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1851.

      Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.

      CONTENTS.

      NOTES:—

      Cowley and Gray. No. III. 465

      Old Song: The Cuckold's Cap, by J. R. Relton 468

      The Gododin, by Thomas Stephens 468

      Folk Lore:—Lincolnshire Folk Lore 470

      Minor Notes:—Modern Greek Names of Places—There is no mistake—Remarkable Prophecy—The Ball that killed Nelson—Gypsies 470

      QUERIES:—

      Dial Motto at Karlsbad 471

      Suppressed Epilogue by Dryden, by Henry Campkin 472

      Minor Queries:—Barrister—Indian Jugglers—Priory of Hertford—Jacobus Creusius (or Crucius)—Clekit House—Ballad on the Rising of the Vendée—Stanza on Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar—Prophecy respecting 1837—Lines on the Bible—En bon et poyer—England expects every man, &c.—Religious Houses in East Sussex—Parish Registers, Right of Search, Fees claimable—Bacon a Poet—Tregonwell Frampton—Weever and Fuller; their Autographs wanted—Is the Badger Amphibious? 472

      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Royal Registers—Paul Hoste—Liber Mirabilis—Saint Richard, King of England—Saint Irene or St. Erini 474

      REPLIES:—

      Cockney 475

      Replies to Minor Queries:—The Word Infortuner—Foreign Ambassadors—Petition for the Recall from Spain of the Duke of Wellington 476

      MISCELLANEOUS:—

      Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 477

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted 478

      Notices to Correspondents 478

      Advertisements 478

      List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages

      Notes.

      COWLEY AND GRAY, NO. III.

      Before again recurring to Gray's partiality for the poems of Cowley, I will make a remark or two on Mr. Wakefield's edition of Gray.

      In his delightful Ode to Adversity Gray has written:

      "Daughter of Jove, relentless power,

      Thou tamer of the human breast,

      Whose iron scourge, and tort'ring hour,

      The bad affright, afflict the best."

      Upon which Wakefield gives us this brilliant criticism:

      "'Torturing hour.' There seems to be some little impropriety and incongruity in this. Consistency of figure rather required some material image, like iron scourge and adamantine chain."

      Afterwards he seems to speak diffidently of his own judgment, which is rather an unusual thing in Mr. Wakefield. Well would it have been for the reputations of Bentley, Johnson, and Wakefield, that, before improving upon Milton and Gray and Collins, they had remembered the words of a truly great critic, even Horace himself:

      "Sunt delicta tamen quibus ignovisse velimus:

      Nam neque chorda sonum reddit quem vult manus et mens,

      Poscentique gravem persæpe remittit acutum;

      Nec semper feriet quodcunque minabitur arcus.

      Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis

      Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit,

      Aut humana parum cavit natura."

      Epist. ad Pisones, 347.

      Not by any means that I am allowing in this case the existence of a macula, or an incuria either. To D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature I think I am indebted for the remark, that Gray borrowed the expressions from Milton:

      "When the scourge

      Inexorably, and the torturing hour

      Calls us to penance."

      Par. Lost, lib. ii. 90.

      It is therefore with Milton, and not with Gray, that Mr. Wakefield must settle the matter. And in proof of my earnest sympathies with him during the very unequal contest, I will console him with proprieties, congruities, consistencies of figure, and material images, enough.

      "The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel,

      Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel."

      Goldsmith's Traveller, ad finem.

      Or better for this purpose still:

      "Swords, daggers, bodkins, bearded arrows, spears,

      Nails, pincers, crosses, gibbets, hurdles, ropes,

      Tallons of griffins, paws and teeth of bears,

      Tigre's and lyon's mouths, not iron hoops,

      Racks, wheels, and trappados, brazen cauldrons which

      Boiled with oil, huge tuns which flam'd with pitch."

      Beaumonts's Psyche, cant.

      XXII.

      v. 69. p. 330. Cambridge, 1702. Folio.

      Torturing hour is used by Campbell in his Pleasures of Hope, Part I.:

      "The martyr smiled beneath avenging power,

      And braved the tyrant in his torturing hour."

      And, indeed, sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, had used it before any of them:

      Is there no play, to ease the anguish of a torturing hour.

      Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V. Sc. 1.

      Again, Gray writes in his truly sublime ode, The Bard:

      "On a rock, whose haughty brow

      Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood,

      Robed in the sable garb of woe,

      With haggard eyes the poet stood,

      (Loose his beard, and hoary hair

      Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air),

      And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire,

      Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre."

      Ordinary readers would have innocently supposed the above pictured passage beyond all praise or criticism. At non infelix Wakefield:

      "A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place,

      Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd."

      Macbeth.

      I must give his note as it stands, for I question whether the whole range of verbal criticism could produce anything more ludicrous:

      "I wish Mr. Gray could

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