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No. 40.] 



Saturday, August 3. 1850. 



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Notes : — 



Translations of Juvenal — Wordsworth ... 



Dedication to Milton by Antonio Malatesti, by S. W. 

 Singer --.-_.. 



Pnltener's Ballad of "The Honest Jury," by C. H. 

 Cooper --.-,-_ 



NdfHs on Milton --.,._ 



Folk Lore: — High Spirits considered a Sign of impend- 

 ing Calamity or Death — Norrollc Popular Rhymes- 

 Throwing Salt over the Shoulder— Charming for 

 Warts ----._. 



Notes on College Salting ; Turkish Spy ; Dr. Dee ; from 

 " Letters from the Bodleian, &c.," 2 vols. 1813 



Minor Notes : —Alarm — Taking a Wife on Trial 



Russian Language— Pistol and Bardolph — Epigram 

 from Buchanan --•... 



Qi;eiiies : — 



Calvin and Servetus - - , . . 



F.timological Queries - - . . . 



Minor Queries: — Countess of Desmond — Noli me tan- 

 pere — Lines in Milton's "Penseroso" — " Mooney's 

 Goose"— Translation of the Philobiblon — Achilles 

 and the Tortoise — Dominicals — Yorkshire Dales - 



Replies: — 



Tobacco in the East - . . . . 



" Job's Luck," by Coleridge, by J. Bruce 



Eccius Dedoiatus ----_. 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Hiring of Servants- 

 George Herbert — Lord Delamrre — Execution of 

 Charles I.— Charade — Diicursus Modcstus — " Ra- 

 pidocontrarius Orbi" -" Isabel" and "Elizabeth"- 

 Haiiap — Cold Harbour .... 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 

 Borjks and Odd Volumes Wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements ... 



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TBANSLATIONS OF JUVENAL — WORDSWORTH. 



1Mb. Markland's ascertainment (Vol. i., p. 

 481.) of the ori<,rii, of Johnson'.s " Froin China to 

 Peru," where, however, I sincerely believe our 

 great moralist iiitemled not so much to bori-ow the 

 phrase as to [)r(j(it hy its temporary notoriety and 

 popularity, reminds me of a conversation, many 

 years since, with the late William Wordsworth, at 

 wliirh I haitpened to be present, and which now 

 derives an ailditional interest from the circum- 

 stance of his recent decease. 



Some mention had been made of the opening 

 lines of the tenth satire of Juvenal : 



" Omnibus in torris, qu.-E sunt a Gadibus usque 

 Auroram, et Gangem pauci dignoscere possunt 

 Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota 

 Erroris nebula." 



"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 cliiTie, from Ganges' distant stream, 

 To Gades, gilded by the western beam, 

 Few, from tlie 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, hnw 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 readurs 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 ex- 

 cellences of other writers, and whose own powers, 

 it will be acknowledged, were of a very hig'u order, 

 should so often have given us reason to reifret 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. 

 1810, 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 lung dry see-saw of liis liorrible l)ray." 



Vor.. ir. — No. 40. 



