Note* and Queries, July 28, 1906.
INDEX.
545
Proverbs and Phrases :
I expect to pass through, 260, 393, 493
Man in the street, 100, 167
Metropolitan toe, 46, 357
Minority Waiter, 510
Mother of dead dogs, 509
Ned : to raise Ned, 8
Passive resister, 32, 77
Pillar to post, 11
Pious founder, 107, 257
Policy of pin-pricks, 366
Portmanteau words and phrases, 110,170, 235, 512
Rattling good thing, 250, 335
Kien de trop, 243
Selling oneself to the Devil, 29, 78, 115
Sleep the sleep of the just, 20
Sou vent femme varie, 244
Spick and span, 160
Standing midway in air, like Trisanku, 244
The hand that rocks the cradle, 273, 357
Thimbleful of sense is worth a pound of nonsense, 429
Travailler pour le roi de Prusse, 206 Provincial booksellers, lists of, 141, 183, 242, 297, 351 ,
415, 481, 492
Provincialisms, Devon, 490
Psalter, Nottingham, 1220, illuminated manuscript, 430 Public-house, evolution from caravanserai, 72 Publishing and bookselling, bibliography of, 361, 476 Pulford (F. G.), Pightle : pikle, 376 Pulpits, open-air, 55, 96, 154, 498 Punch, the beverage, its origin, 37, 71 Punteus or Penteus ( J.), c. 1649, famous physician, 212 Punctuation in MSS. and printed books, 502 Pyramus and Thisbe, death songs of, 341, 401
Q
Queens and kings compared, 389
Querist on kings and queens compared, 389
Quince and mulberry folk-lore, 15
Quotations :
A poor thing, but mine own, 100
Aliquid sapidum in fungo, 27, 75
And many a smile, 208
And the dawn comes up like thunder, 389, 417
An original something, fair maid, 11
Attain the unattainable, 449, 49G
Because my wine was of too poor a savour, 248, 295
Before me lie dark waters, 408, 437
Behold this ruin ! 'tis a skull, 40
Classical quotations, 88
Come with our voices let us war, 449
Cum vel iniquissimam pacem, 28, 57, 95, 153
Decus et tutamen, 200
r/7rt<rrc teari^oiffa (Heliodorus), 27, 75
Eat bene non potuit dicere, dixit, erit, 27
Et tu, Brute ! 125, 214
Fair Eve knelt close to the guarded gate, 213
For the Radcliffe hath spoken, 208
Friends, when you see I'm like to die, 449
From the thick film, 129, 172
Get in the shire what one loses in the hundred, 120
Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove, 240
Helosethhisthankswhopromisethanddelayeth,397
He saw a certain minister, 220
How the young earl had given, 208
Quotations :
I have fought for queen and faith, 180
I shall pass through this world, 260, 393, 498
I will go forth 'mong men, not mailed in scorn, 40S-
If I it lose, 229, 299
In light I will remember, 170
In men whom men condemn as ill, 248, 316 }
Is there never a chink in the world above, 108^ J
La vie est vaine, 220
L'amour est I'bistoire de la vie des femmes, 397
Latin quotations, 88
Life's work well done, 460
Man in the street, 100, 167
Mother of many princes, 389
My span of life is drawing to a close, 489
Now this is every cook's opinion, 268, 397
Ocean, 'mid his uproar wild, 47, 77
Oh for a blast of that dread horn, 100
Poets that lasting marble seek, 60
Premant torcular qui vendemiarunt, 27
Quam nihilad genium, 27, 116
Kagotin, ce matin, 328
Slander, meanest spawn of hell, 260
Still like the hindmost chariot wheel is cursed, 92
Straight is the line of duty, 160
Tarn otii debet constare ratio quam negotii, 27
That very law which moulds a tear, 40
The dead but sceptred sovereigns who still rule, 320
The hand that rocks the cradle, 273
The mills of God grind slowly, 449
The old house by the lindens, 248, 295
The plane's thick head 'mid burning day, 407
The power and glory of the war, 311
The thunder down the dark ravine, 48
Thee with the welcome snowdrop I compare, 489-
There is so much good in the worst of us, 76
There 's fire on the mountains, 408
These are the Britons, a barbarous race, 31, 77, 194
This main miracle that thou art thou, 489
To see the children sporting on the shore, 248, 295
True as the shell, 248
Ubi rudentes stridunt, 27
Was martial and high, 208
We muse on glories gone, 208
We shall meet, we know not where, 248
When love unites, wide space divides in vain, 48
Where the Radcliffe, alas ! rules no more, 208
Who has a voice like thine, 108
Whosa part in all the pomp that fills, 92
You say I 'm dead, I say you lie, 210
With viewless steps the bearers pass,' a 208
R
R. (A. F.) on Hornby and Feilden M.P.s, 32(>
R. (D.) on quotations wanted, 408
R. (H.) on J. F. Vigani, 389
R. (J. F.) on Dante's sonnet to Guido Cavalcanti, 474
Rossetti (G.), his ' Tre Ragionamenti,' B 477 R. (P. N.) on large-paper margins, 217
Provincial booksellers, 242 Radcliffe (J.) on Combermere Abbey, 214
Fitzherbert (Mrs.), 32
Glanville, Earl of Suffolk, 213
Heraldic, 335
Heralds' visitations, Northamptonshire, 54
Roll of Carlaverock, 53
