loss to know precisely what they mean. 'Orthodoxy, my Lord' (said Bishop Warburton in a whisper), 'Orthodoxy is my doxy,-Heterodoxy is another man's PRIESTLEY'S Memoirs. Vol. i. p. 372. doxy.' 'I hear a lion in the lobby roar? But Titus said with his uncommon sense, REV. JAMES BRAMSTON. Art of Politics. 'Indemnity for the past and security for the future,+ are now evidently construed into Ceylon and Trinidad. Letter to the Hon. T. Maitland, Russell's Memoir of Fox. Vol. iii. p. 345. 'Steal my thunder? Disraeli says, 'the actors refused to perform one of John Dennis's tragedies to empty houses, but they retained some excellent thunder which Dennis had invented; it rolled one night when Dennis was in the pit, and it was applauded. Suddenly starting up, he cried to the audience, "By they won't act my tragedy, but they steal my thunder."' Calamities of Authors From Apophthegms, etc., in Latin, by ERASMUS, translated by NICHOLAS VDALL. 1542. That same man, that runnith awaie, * Col. Titus, in a debate on the Exclusion Bill, January 7, 1680. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain. BUTLER. Hudibras. Part iii. Canto 3. From the Art of Poetry on a new Plan. Edited by OLIVER GOLDSMITH. For he who fights and runs away But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.* From the Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande, by RICHARD GRAFTON, 1590. A rule to knowe how many dayes euery moneth in the yeare hath.' Thirty dayes hath Nouember, And all the rest have xxxi. * Sed omissis quidem divinis exhortationibus, illum magis Græcum versiculum secularis sententiæ sibi adhibent. Qui fugiebat, rursus præliabitur: ut et rursus forsitan fugiat.-TERTULLIAN. De Fugâ in Persecutione, c. x. The corresponding Greek, ̓Ανὴρ ὁ φεύγων καὶ πάλιν μαχήσεται, is ascribed to Menander in Dübner's edition of his Fragments (appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Græca), p. 91. Qui fuit, peut revenir aussi ; Souvent celuy qui demeure SCARRON (Etat. 1660). From the Satyre Menippée, 1594. From the Return from Parnassus. 4to. London. 1606. Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February eight-and-twenty all alone, And give to February twenty-nine. From Song No. 7, Ravenscraft's 'Deuteromela, 1609. Nose, nose, nose, nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Sinament and ginger, nutmegs and cloves, From the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Sir I saw the new moon, late yestreen, From Playford's Musical Companion, 1687. Begone, dull care, I prithee begone from me; Begone, dull care, thou and I shall never agree. From the New England Primer. In Adam's fall We sinned all. My book and heart Must never part. Verses for Children. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; I pray the Lord my soul to take. Martyrdom of Mr. John Rogers. His wife with nine small children and one at the breast. Lines used by John Ball, to encourage the Rebels in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's History of England, Vol I. Chap. 17, Note 8. When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? From a MSS. of the 15th Century in the British Now bething the, gentilman, How Adam dalf and Eve span. The same proverb existed in German. Agricola. (Prov. No. 264.) So Adam reutte, und Eva span Wer was da ein eddelman. From the Garland, a Collection of Poems, 1721, by Mr. BR-ST, author of a Copy of Verses called 'The British Beauties: Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.* *This line is quoted by Pope, in the 1st Epistle of Horace, Book ii. 'Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.' DYER. [Published in the early part of the reign of George I.] Down among the dead men let him lie. Lines Written in the Album of David Krieg. Think that day lost whose [low] descending sun Your success and happiness is sincerely wished by Ja. Bobart,† Oxford. From Ovid's Metamorphosis, translated by several hands and published by Samuel Garth. 12mo., 1751. Vol. ii. Book 7, Line 20. I see the right, and I approve it too, 2 vols. Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.‡ From the 'Prologue written for the Opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796.' (Barrington's 'New South Wales,' p. 152.) True patriots all; for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. * Nichol's Autographs in the British Museum. Jacob Bobart was a son of the celebrated botanist of that name: he died about 1726. Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. |