Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850
    Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850
    Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850
    Ebook103 pages59 minutes

    Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

    By Various Various

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

    Read more from Various Various

    Related to Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Good, The Bad And The Frankly Awful

      Oct 25, 2023

      Timothy Mowl and Julian Orbach (Stephen Morris, £20) IN his epistolary novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), Tobias Smollett, has the comically hypochondriac and irascible—but gradually mellowing—figure of Matthew Bramble, a country squire

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Waste Land turns 100

      Oct 19, 2022

      The Waste Land turns 100
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Matt Seidel

      Dec 9, 2017

      I tend to buy used books in bunches, which means the haul from some expeditions stays buried for weeks, months, years even. For this entry, I highlight three finds that, breaking custom, I bought and read almost immediately this year: Hugo Charteris’

      6 min read

    • Article

      Ten Ways to Lose Your Literature

      Jan 25, 2021

      Just as all literature is haunted by the potential of oblivion, so all lost books are animated by the redemptive hope of their rediscovery. The post Ten Ways to Lose Your Literature appeared first on The Millions.

      28 min read

    • Article

      To Make Art Is To Be Human

      Oct 13, 2021

      IN 1950, Ernst Gombrich published The Story of Art. The book was an instant bestseller and was the first to show that there was, indeed, such a thing as a story of art, that artists and movements existed not in isolated moments of time, but as part o

      7 min read

    • Article

      Fairies, Folklore And Forteana

      Jun 15, 2023

      As noted in the last FT, I have recently been collecting accounts of the immortals among us. Folk who refuse to die and who keep turning up through the generations like a bad penny. These undying individuals come in various forms, but in Britain at l

      2 min read

    • Article

      What The Thunder Said

      Sep 14, 2022

      ON Margate Sands./I can connect/ Nothing with nothing.’ Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot crafted these short lines that form a part of his fractured epic The Waste Land in October 1921, as he sat in the inauspicious Nayland Rock Shelter (granted Grade II

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Old Un’s Notes

      May 4, 2022

      * With the Platinum Jubilee upon us, it’s time to look forward to the 70th anniversary of the Young Elizabethan, too. Founded in 1948 as Collins Magazine for Boys & Girls, it was renamed the Young Elizabethan to celebrate the Queen’s Coronation. In 1

      6 min read

    • Article

      What Makes a Poet Difficult?

      May 28, 2019

      What Makes a Poet Difficult?
      6 min read

    • Article

      Classical Corner

      Mar 24, 2022

      Classical Corner
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Call Of The Garden

      Oct 4, 2023

      The Call Of The Garden
      5 min read

    • Article

      My Golden Book Of Hours

      Jun 1, 2022

      My Golden Book Of Hours
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Storm Is Blowing

      Apr 1, 2019

      A Storm Is Blowing
      6 min read

    • Article

      Poem Of The Week: From ‘Proof …’ By Peter Riley

      Nov 6, 2023

      (6) The Refugee in a sleeping-bag on a steel floor opens his eyes on darkness and wonders did he remember before he left to visit the old holm oak up the fields, to hold the spiked leaf in his hand and listen to what it said? Go, it said, go now

      3 min read

    • Article

      This Island Earth Charles Fort’s New Lands At 100

      Sep 7, 2023

      So begins Charles Fort’s New Lands, thus laying the groundwork for every UFO book of the 1950s that suggested that we were being visited by aliens from Mars or Venus. Fort’s second major non-fiction work, New Lands, is a difficult book. It lacks the

      14 min read

    • Article

      Plumbing the Depths

      Jun 3, 2019

      Plumbing the Depths
      3 min read

    Reviews for Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes & Queries, No. 40, Saturday, August

      3, 1850, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Notes & Queries, No. 40, Saturday, August 3, 1850

      A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries,

      Author: Various

      Release Date: September 7, 2004 [EBook #13389]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES & QUERIES, NO. 40, ***

      Produced by Jon Ingram, David King, the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team, and The Internet Library of Early Journals,

      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

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

      CONTENTS.

      NOTES.

      TRANSLATIONS OF JUVENAL—WORDSWORTH.

      Mr. Markland's ascertainment (Vol. i., p. 481.) of the origin of Johnson's From China to Peru, where, however, I sincerely believe our great moralist intended not so much to borrow the phrase as to profit by its temporary notoriety and popularity, reminds me of a conversation, many years since, with the late William Wordsworth, at which I happened to be present, and which now derives an additional interest from the circumstance of his recent decease.

      Some mention had been made of the opening lines of the tenth satire of Juvenal:

      "Omnibus in terris, quae sunt a Gadibus usque

      Auroram, et Gangem pauci dignoscere possunt

      Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remotâ

      Erroris nebulâ."

      Johnson's translation of this, said Wordsworth, "is extremely bad:

      "'Let Observation, with extensive view,

      Survey mankind from China to Peru.'

      "And I do not know that Gifford's is at all better:

      "'In every clime, from Ganges' distant stream,

      To Gades, gilded by the western beam,

      Few, from the clouds of mental error free,

      In its true light, or good or evil see.'

      But, he added, musing, "what is Dryden's? Ha! I have it:

      "'Look round the habitable world, how few

      Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.'

      This is indeed the language of a poet; it is better than the original.

      The great majority of your readers will without doubt, consider this compliment to Dryden well and justly bestowed, and his version, besides having the merit of classical expression, to be at once concise and poetical. And pity it is that one who could form so true an estimate of the excellences of other writers, and whose own powers, it will be acknowledged, were of a very high order, should so often have given us reason to regret his puerilities and absurdities. This language, perhaps, will sound like treason to many; but permit me to give an instance in which the late poet-laureate seems to have admitted (which he did not often do) that he was wrong.

      In the first edition of the poem of Peter Bell (the genuine, and not the pseudo-Peter), London, 8vo. 1819, that personage sets to work to bang the poor ass, the result of which is this, p. 36.:

      "Among the rocks and winding crags—

      Among the mountains far away—

      Once more the ass did lengthen out

      More ruefully an endless shout,

      The long dry see-saw of his horrible bray."

      After remarks on Peter's strange state of mind when saluted by this horrible music, and describing him as preparing to seize the ass by the neck, we are told his purpose was interrupted by something he just then saw in the water, which afterwards proves to be a corpse. The reader is, however, first excited and disposed to expect something horrible by the following startling conjectures:—

      "Is it the moon's distorted face?

      The ghost-like image of a cloud?

      Is it a gallows these pourtrayed?

      Is Peter of himself afraid?

      Is it a coffin—or a shroud?

      "A grisly idol hewn in stone?

      Or imp from witch's lap let fall?

      Or a

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1