Aug. 4. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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contains an inventory of the effects that were in 

 the cottage. G. Blencowe. 



Manningtree. 



^^ Almighty Dollar." — This phrase originated 

 with Washington Irving, who first made use of 

 it in his charming little sketch of a Creole Vil- 

 lage, which appeared in 1837. W. W. 



Malta. 



Parallel Passages. — 



"When a body is once in motion, it moveth, unless 

 something hinder it, eternally ; and whatsoever hindereth 

 it, cannot in an instant, but in time and by degrees, quite 

 extinguish it ; and, as we see in the water, though the wind 

 cease, the waves give not over rolling for a long time 

 after ; so also it happeneth in tliat motion which is made 

 in the internal parts of man," &c. — Hobbes. 



Robespierre. " The people will as soon revolt without op- 

 pression as the ocean will heave in billows without the 

 wind." 



"'True,' says Verginana ; 'but wave after wave will 

 roll upon the shore after the fury of the winds is stilled.' " 

 —Alison's History. 



" A flowery band to bind us to the earth, 

 Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth 

 Of noble natures, of the gloomy days. 

 Of all the unhealthy and o'erdarken'd ways 

 Made for our searching ; yes, in spite of all, 

 Some shape of beauty moves away the pall 

 From our dark spirits. 



An endless fountain of immortal drink 

 Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink." 



Keats's Endymion (opening lines). 



" And let our love. 

 Our large true love bend o'er our little babe. 

 As the calm grand old heavens bend over earth, 

 Kevealing God's own starry thoughts and things, 

 So shall the image of our hearts' ideal, 

 The angel nestling in her bud of life. 

 Smile upward in the mirror of her face, 

 A daily beauty in our darken'd ways, 

 And a perpetual feast of holy things." 



Gerald Massul's Wedded Life. 



T.S.N. 



Error in Carys " Dante" — Will you allow 

 me to call attention to a singular mistake which 

 occurs in Gary's Translation of Dante? The pas- 

 sages to which I allude are in the 23rd Canto of 

 the " Inferno." The poet is describing the punish- 

 ment of the hypocrites, when he says (v. 61.) ; 



" Egli avean cappe con cappucci bassi 

 Dinanzi agli occhi, fatte della taglia, 

 Che 'n Cologna per li monaci fassi." 



Again (v. 100.) : 



" E 1' un rispose a me : le cappe ranee 

 Son di piombo si grosse, che li pesi 

 Fan cigolar le lor bilance." 



In one of these places, Gary translates the word 

 No. 301.] 



cappe, " caps ; " in the other, " bondets : " whereas 

 it should have been " mantles," or " cloaks." The 

 whole force and beauty of the passage is lost by 

 this misrendering ; and the allusion to the mantle 

 or cope of lead in which Frederic II. enveloped 

 his victims is deprived of its point and meaning. 



T. F. K. 



€L\xtxit6, 



Johnson's " life of drtden." 



Speaking of Dryden's Plays, Johnson says : 

 " The plays are said to be printed in the order in 

 which they were written." Mr. Gunningham has 

 allowed this passage (vol. i. p. 273.) to pass with- 

 out comment. But is there any other authority 

 for such a statement than a wrong reading of the 

 advertisement prefixed to King Arthur, where 

 Dryden said : 



" Finding that several of my friends, in buying my 

 Plays, &c., bound together, have been imposed on by the 

 booksellers foisting in a play which is not mine, I have 

 here, to prevent this for the future, set down a catalogue 

 of my Plays and Poems in quarto, putting the Plays in the 

 order I wrote them." 



This is not saying the Plays were printed in the 

 order in which they were written, and Johnson 

 shows that be did not believe ^hey were : for 

 (p. 280.) " Tyrannic Love," he tells us, " was 

 written before the Conquest of Grenada, but 

 published after it." I am not here considering 

 whether Johnson was right or wrong, but whether 

 he had any authority for the " it is said." If he 

 had, where is it to be found ? 



Now a word or two as to. the fact itself. Mb. 

 Cunningham, in a note to the last passage quoted 

 (p. 280.), tells us that Johnson was in error : that 

 Tyrannic Love was published in 1670, and The 

 Conquest of Grenada in 1672. This, though a 

 special correction, strengthens Johnson's general 

 assertion ; but then the unnoticed general asser- 

 tion is contradicted and disproved by the table 

 given in the Appendix (p. 395.). What then are 

 the facts ? Does Malone say he had seen, or has 

 Mr. Cunningham seen, an edition of Tyrannic 

 Love, published 1670? I know that Jones, in 

 Biog. Dram., makes mention of such an edition ; 

 but Isaac Reed, his predecessor, a more careful 

 man, referred only to an edition of 1672. The 

 entry in stationers' books proves nothing as to 

 date of publication. 

 Again, Johnson says : 



" It is related by Prior, that Lord Dorset, when as 

 Chamberlain he was constrained to eject Drj'den from his 

 office, gave him from his own purse an allowance equal to 

 the salary. This is no romantic or incredible act of gene- 

 rosity ; a hundred a year is often given to claims less 

 cogent by men less famed for liberality. Yet Drj'den 

 always represented himself as suffering under a public 



