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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 94. 



Diviiw, a poem which contains many vigorous and 

 spirited passages ; but I do not believe that Pope 

 gave the line as a quotation at all, or that it is 

 other, so far as he is concerned, than original. 

 The inverted commas merely denote that this 

 line is the termination of the goddess's speech. 

 The punctuation is not very correct in any of the 

 editions of the Ditnciad ; and sometimes inverted 

 commas occur at the end of the last line of a speech, 

 and sometimes both at the beginning and end of 

 the line. James Ceossley. 



Equestrian Statues (Vol. iii., p. 494.). — In reply 

 to F. M.'s Query respecting the Duke of Welling- 

 ton's statue being the only equestrian one erected 

 to a subject in her Majesty's dominions, I may 

 mention that tliere is one erected in Cavendish 

 Square to William Duke of Cumberland,, who, 

 though of the blood royal, was yet a subject. 



D. K. 



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