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NOTES AND QUERIES. w* s. n. AUG. 13, i
"gale" (book iv. p. 95), but the value given
to the final syllable of "retrieve" .seems
curious. It rhymes to "hive," and not to
"heave." Of several examples one, from a
description of the agony of Hercules (book vii.
p. 206), may be cited :
No kind assistance can my state retrieve, Nor any friend attend me, and survive.
Near the end of book viii. p. 259 occurs this
couplet :
His powers defeated, and himself depriv'd Of hopes of conquest, nor to be retriev'd.
Perhaps the most interesting of all the peculiarities of pronunciation in the poem is the survival represented in the use of " hings " for hangs. " Kings " was a normal form in early literature, and it is prevalent in Lowland Scotland at the present time. In Wilkie's description of the siege of Thebes (book ix. p. 285) there is the following passage :
Rank above rank the living structure grows, As settling bees the pendent heap compose, Which in some shade or vaulted cavern, hinys, Woven thick with complicated feet and wings : Thus mutually sustained, the warriors bend ; While o'er their heads the order'd ranks ascend. Finally, as a tribute to Wilkie's observation and skill of setting, I quote the night scene depicted in the closing lines of book iii. : And now the night began her silent reign ; Ascending, from the deep, th' ethereal plain, O'er both the hosts she stretch'd her ample shade, Their conflict to suspend : the hosts obey'd. The field no more a noisy scene appears, With steeds and chariots throng'd and glitt'ring
spears ;
But still, and silent : like the hoary deep, When, in their caves, the angry tempests sleep, Peaceful and smooth it spreads from shore to
shore,
Where storms had rag'dand billows swell'd before : Such seem'd the field ; the martial clangors cease ; And war tumultuous lulls itself to peace.
THOMAS BAYNE. Helensburgh, N.B.
'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY':
NOTES AND CORRECTIONS.
(Continued from 9 th S. i. 322.)
Vol. LIV.
P. 6 b. How can one man be " popular " with another ?
P. 7. Sir Edward Stanhope. See Gent's ' York.,' p. 222 ; ' Fortescue Papers,' Camd. Soc., pp. xii-xiv ; Stow's ' Survey,' 1618, p. 644.
P. 7 b. For " Wharffe " read Wharf e. " Ra- leigh," 'D.N.B.' has decided for Ralegh.
Pp. 10-12. Dean Stanhope. In 1697 he is styled late Fellow of King's College. Hervey
alls him " the nervous, florid, and persuasive,"
' Meditations,' 1758, i. 273 n. ; Black wall says
be is "a very great man," 'Sacred Classics,'
1737. Among his separate printed sermons
are : Sermon at the Commencement, Cam-
bridge, 4 July, 1697, on 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17, 4to.,
Lond., 1697 ; Concio ad Clerum, Convocation
at St. Paul's, 25 Oct., 1705, on St. James iii.
17, 4to., Lond., 1706; sermon before the
Queen at St. Paul's, thanksgiving for victory,
on Deut. xxxiii. 29, 2nd ed., 8vo., Lond.,
1706 ; funeral sermon for Richard Sare,
bookseller, 1723, 4to., 1724 ; his Boyle
Lectures were 1701, not 1702 ; his version
of Thomas a Kempis was an early favourite
with John Newton, 'Memoirs,' 1843, ed. 2,
p. 57. See Yorksh. Arch. Jour., i. 236 ;
Nichols, 'Lit. Anecd.,' 1812, iv. 150.
P. 12 a. "alien to"?
Pp. 14-19. General James Stanhope. See Akenside's ' Ode to Bp. Hoadly,' and an ode in W. Somerville's ' Poems.' Pp. 14 b, 72 a, 166 a. " averse to " ? P. 32. Chesterfield. Thomson praises him, 'Winter,' 656; Young, 'Night Thoughts,' Nt. viii., "a half-Chesterfield is quite a fool.'
Pp. 36 b, 241 a. For "baptised " read baptized (always thus in the Bible and in the Book of Common Prayer).
P. 50 b, line 8. Correct press. "Bards- worth, Yorkshire " ?
P. 52 b. Holy Orders are not a "profession." P. 54 b. " the new ministry refused the silk gown "; after " refused " insert " to give him."
P. 58 a. " to again assume"? Pp. 78-81. Tho. Stanley. Richard Brome dedicated to him ' Joviall Crew,' 1652 ; the 3rd ed. of his ' History of Philosophy ' is 1701 ; an 8vo. 'Lives of Ancient Philosophers,' 1702 was partly taken from Stanley's. See Wrang- ham's ' Zouch,' i. p. Ixxvii ; ' N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. xi. 43C-1.
P. 80 b. For " Enyon " read Engan. P. 87 b. Stanyan. See Leibnitz, ' Theodicee,' 1760, i. 120. L. 30, for " 1607 " read 1707. P. 97 a. bis. " Brustwick," i. e., Burstwick. Pp. 98-100. Sir Philip Stapleton's two speeches were separately printed, (1) 'Worthy Speech' concerning Digby and Lunsford, 4to., 15 Jan., 1641; (2) 'Renowned Speech
at the Great Assembly of Yorkshire,'
4to., 28 May, 1642 ; both also in Somers Tracts, 2nd S. ii. See also 'Letter from Lord Fairfax, Sir Hugh Cholmley, Sir P. S., and Sir Henry Cholmley,' May, 1642; 'The King's
Answer to the Earl of Holland, Sir P. S.,
and Sir John Holland,' 1642 ; ' Particular Charge or Impeachment against Holies,
