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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 292. 



found the j^erm of tlie thought In Chapman, Leib- 

 nitz, and Isaac D'Israeli. A still more striking 

 parallel occurs in the following passage in Shelley's 

 prose piece, A Defence of Poetry : 



*" Poets are the hierophauts of an unapprehended in- 

 spiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which fu- 

 turity casts itpau. ihe present." 



It would be interesting to ascertain at what 

 period Sheliey's Defence of Poetry first made its 

 appearance in print. Hjenrt H. Bbeen. 



St. Lucia. 



Cambridge Authors (Vol. xi., p. 367.). — From 

 a MS. account of the Fellows of King's. 



1656. Robert Nevil, of London, son of Robert 

 Nevil, son of Edward Nevil, of Sunning Hill Park, 

 Rector of Anstve, Herts, 1663—1671, B. D. when 

 the Prince of Orange came to Cambridge (see 

 Langbaine). He printed some sermons. 



1696. Robert Owen of Hereford, at the end of 

 his probation he was denied his fellowship. Of 

 great parts, but satirical and free in his morals, 

 after he was usher to Mr. Rood of Hereford, he 

 wrote a tragedy, Hypermnestra, or Love in Tears. 



J. H. L. 



KOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



All who are acquainted with Mr. Keightley will look 

 with interest to a volume in which he has recorded the 

 results of somewhat more than a quarter of a century of 

 diligent stud}' of the noble poetry of Milton. His recently- 

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 John Milton, with an Introduction to Paradise Lost, is so 

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Mr. Murray never did better service to literature than 

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