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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 74. |
Saturday, March 29. 1851. |
Price Threepence. |
CONTENTS.
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On Portraits of Distinguished Men, by Lord Braybrooke |
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Story of a Relic |
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Illustration of Chaucer, No. II: Complaint of Mars and Venus |
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Charles the First and Bartolomeo della Nave's Collection of Pictures, by Sir F. Madden |
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Minor Notes:—Nonsuch Palace—Ferrar and Benlowes—Traditions from remote Periods through few Links—Longevity—Emendation of a Passage in Virgil—Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir K. Digby—Matter-of-Fact Epitaph |
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Queries:— |
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Ancient Danish Itinerary: Prol in Angliam, by R. J. King |
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Chiming, Tolling, and Peal-ringing of Bells, by Rev. A. Gatty |
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Mazer Wood: Gutta Percha, by W. Pinkerton |
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Minor Queries:—Paul Pitcher Night—Disinterment for Heresy—"Just Notions," &c.—Pursuits of Literature—Satirical Medal—Matthew's Mediterranean Passage—Inscription on an Oak Board—Expressions in Milton—Saints' Days—Chepstow Castle—The Wilkes MSS. and "North Briton"—"O wearisome Condition of Humanity!"—Epitaph in Hall's "Discovery" |
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Minor Queries Answered:—Canon and Prebendary—What Amount of Property constitutes an Esquire?—Cromwell Family—Daughters of the Sixth Earl of Lennox—Wife of Joseph Nicholson—Six Abeiles—Southey—Epigram against Burke—Knight's Hospitallers |
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Mesmerism, by Dr. Maitland |
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Lord Howard of Effingham |
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Iovanni Volpe, by William Hughes |
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Replies to Minor Queries:—Sir Andrew Chadwick—Manuscript of Bede—Closing of Rooms on account of Death—Enigmatical Epitaph on Rev. J. Mawer—Haybands in Seals—Notes on Newspapers—Duncan Campbell—Christmas-day—MS. Sermons by Jeremy Taylor—Dryden's Absolom and Achitophel—Rev. W. Adams—Duchess of Buckingham—"Go the whole Hog"—Lord Bexley's Descent from Cromwell—Morse and Ireton Families—The Countess of Desmond—Aristophanes on the Modern Stage—Denarius Philosophorum—On a Passage in the Tempest—Meaning of Waste-book—Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs—Meaning of "Harrisers" &c. |
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Miscellaneous:— |
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Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. |
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Books and Odd Volumes wanted |
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Notices to Correspondents |
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Advertisements |
Notes.
ON PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED ENGLISHMEN.
In submitting to you the following brief observations, it is neither my wish nor intention to undervalue or disparage the labours of Horace Walpole, and Granger, and Pennant, and Lodge, and the numerous writers who have followed in their train, and to whom we are so much indebted for their notices of a great variety of original portraits of distinguished Englishmen, which still adorn the mansions of our aristocracy, and are found in the smaller collections throughout the realm. But I may be permitted to express my surprise and regret that in this age of inquiry no general catalogue of these national treasures should ever have been published. It is true that the portraits, as well as the other objects of attraction in our royal palaces, have been described in print with tolerable accuracy, and some good accounts are to be met with of the pictures at Woburn, and Blenheim, and Althorpe, and many of the residences of