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Read Ebook: Notes and Queries Vol. V Number 117 January 24 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor
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The Pantheon at Paris 73
Churchill the Poet 74
Folk Lore:--Salting a New-born Infant--Lent Crocking--Devonshire Superstition respecting Still-born Children 76
Goldsmith's Pamphlet on the Cock Lane Ghost, by Jas. Crossley 77
Minor Notes:--Traditions of remote Periods through few Links--Preservation of Life at Sea--Epigram 77
QUERIES:--
Minor Queries--Count Konigsmark--"O Leoline! be absolutely just"--Lyte Family--Sir Walter Raleigh's Snuff-box--"Poets beware"--Guanahani, or Cat Island--Wiggan, or Utiggan, an Oxford Student--Prayers for the Fire of London--Donkey--French and Italian Degrees--The Shadow of the Tree of Life--Sun-dials--Nouns always printed with Capital Initials--John of Padua--St. Kenelm--Church 78
REPLIES:--
Collars of SS. 81
On the First, Final, and Suppressed Volume of the only Expurgatory Index of Rome, by the Rev. J. Mendham 82
The First Paper-mill in England, and Paper-mill near Stevenage, by A. Grayan 83
The Pendulum Demonstration 84
The Cross and the Crucifix, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent 85
Yankee Doodle, by C. H. Cooper 86
Perpetual Lamp 87
Kibroth Hattavah and Wady Mokatteb: Num. xi. 26. critically examined, by Moses Margoliouth 87
Replies to Minor Queries:--"Theophania"--Royal Library--Reichenbach's Ghosts--Marriage Tithe in Wales--Paul Hoste--John of Halifax--Age of Trees--"Mirabilis Liber"--Caesarius, &c.--Tripos--"Please the Pigs"--Basnet Family--Serjeants' Rings--"Crowns have their Compass"--Hell paved with the Skulls of Priests--Cooper's Miniature of Cromwell--King Street Theatre--Groom, Meaning of--Schola Cordis, &c. 88
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 94
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 94
Notices to Correspondents 94
Advertisements 95
Notes.
THE PANTHEON AT PARIS.
In the accounts which have appeared in our journals of the Pantheon and its varied fate, several errors and deficiencies having struck me, I beg leave briefly to correct and supply both, with your permission, by a general history of the beautiful edifice.
"Templum augustum, ingens, regin? assurgit in urbe, Urbe et patron? virgine digna domus, Tarda nimis pietas vanos moliris honores! Non sunt haec, Virgo, factis digna tuis. Ante Deo summ? quam templum extruxeris urbe, Impietas templis tollet et urbe Deum."
The French translation thus impressively renders the sense:--
"Il s'?l?ve ? Paris un temple auguste, immense, Digne de Genevi?ve et des voeux de la France. Tardive pi?t?! dans ce si?cle pervers, Tu pr?pares en vain des monumens divers. Avant qu'il soit fini ce temple magnifique, Les saints et Dieu seront proscrits, Par la secte philosophique Et des temples et de Paris."
In the original pediment, since altered by the sculptor David , a bas-relief represented a cross in the midst of clouds; and on the plinth was the following inscription:--
which, in 1791, when a decree of the National Assembly appropriated this monument of religion to the reception of the remains of illustrious Frenchmen, was changed to--
"AUX GRANDS HOMMES LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE."
The French inscription was the happy thought of M. Pastoret, one of the few Academicians that embraced at its origin the principles of the Revolution, which he followed through its varying phases, until he attained an advanced age. The first mortuary deposit in the Pantheon was that of Mirabeau, in August, 1791; and, on the 30th May ensuing, the anniversary of the death of Voltaire, "L'Assembl?e Nationale d?clara cet ?crivain le lib?rateur de la pens?e, et digne de recevoir les honneurs d?cern?es aux grands hommes," &c. On the 27th August following, a similar distinction was decreed to J. J. Rousseau; but in January, 1822, the tombs of these apostles of incredulity were removed, until replaced in 1830. In July, 1793, the monster Marat was inhumed there, "amidst the deepest lamentations and mournful expressions of regret for the loss sustained by the country in the death of the most valued of her citizens," whose corpse, however, on the 8th February, 1795, was torn from its cerements and flung, with every mark of ignominy, into the filth of the sewer of Montmartre. In the vicissitudes of popular favour even Mirabeau's effigy was burned in 1793. Such have been the alternations and ever-recurring contests in the feelings and principles of the ascendant parties--
"Et velut aeterno certamine praelia pugnasque Edere, turmatim certantia; nec dare pausam, Conciliis et discidiis exercita crebris."
J. R.
CHURCHILL THE POET.
Mr. Tooke, in the biographical notice prefixed to the new edition, says that Churchill was educated at Westminster school, and at the age of fifteen--
There is an obvious confusion here which perhaps I can clear up.
C. P.
In "N. & Q.", , S. H. alludes to the case of Grandval, who was to attempt the life of King William, and likewise to the plot to assassinate him four years afterwards. In my collection of medals relating to English history, I have two silver medals struck to commemorate these events. I beg to send you a description of them for insertion, if you consider them of sufficient interest.
W. D. HAGGARD.
Bullion Office, Bank of England.
"In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was pale almost to dooms-day with eclipse."
Such is the present state of the text; and notwithstanding its evident corruption, it has been judiciously preferred by modern editors to the various emendations and additions which, even to the manufacture of a complete line alleged to be deficient, had been unscrupulously made in it.
But the slight change I now wish to propose, in the substance of one word, and in the received sense of another, carries such entire conviction to my own mind of accordance with the genuine intention of Shakspeare, that I may perhaps be pardoned if I speak of it with less hesitation than generally ought to accompany such suggestions, particularly as I do not arrogate to myself its sole merit, but freely relinquish to Malone so much of it as is his due.
With Malone however the suggestion, such as it was, appears to have been but a random guess, abandoned as soon as formed, and avowedly prompted by very different considerations from those that have actuated me. That he should have been on the very brink, as it were, of the true reading, and yet fail to discover it, is only to be accounted for by his subjection to that besetting sin of the day which denied to Shakspeare all philological knowledge except what he might derive through his own language.
In order to give Malone strict justice, I shall transcribe his suggestion, together with the comment by which Steevens appears to have stifled it in the birth:--
"The disagreeable recurrence of the word stars in the second line induces me to believe that As stars, in that which precedes, is a corruption. Perhaps Shakspeare wrote:--
At least such was the spirit in which too many of the commentators of that day presumed to treat Shakspeare,--him to whom, if to any mortal, his own beautiful language is applicable--
"How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! In apprehension how like a god!"
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