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SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER.
names in Italian Literature were writers of comedy.
Baretti mentions a collection of four thousand dramas
made by Apostolo Zeno, of which the greater part were
comedies-many of a high order.
A comedy or opera by Andreini was the origin of
"Paradise Lost." Andreini's Adamo was the model of
Milton's Adam.
Milton has the expression "Forget thyself to marble."
Pope has the line " I have not yet forgot myself to stone."
The noble simile of Milton, of Satan with the rising
sun in the first book of the Paradise Lost, had nearly
occasioned the suppression of that epic: it was supposed
to contain a treasonable allusion.
Campbell's line
Like angel visits few and far between,
is a palpable plagiarism. Blair has
Its visits
Like angel visits short and far between.
In Hudibras are these lines Each window like the pillory appears
With heads thrust through, nailed by the ears.
Young in his "Love of Fame" has the following An opera, like apillory, may be said
To nail our ears down and expose our head.
Goldsmith's celebrated lines
Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long,
are stolen from Young; who has
Man wants but little, nor that little long.
The character of the ancient Bacchus, that graceful
divinity, seems to have been little understood by Dryden. The line in Virgil
Et quocunque deus circum caput egit hlonestum
is thus grossly mistranslated,
On whate'er side he turns his honest face.
There are about one thousand lines identical in the
Iliad and Odyssey.
Macrobius gives the form of an imprecation by which
the Romans believed whole towns could be demolished
and armies defeated. It commences "Dis Pater sive
Jovis mavis sive quo alio nomine fas est iominare," and
ends "Si haec ita faxitis ut ego sciam, sentisn, intelligamque, turn quisquis votum hoc faxit recte factum
esto, ovibus atris tribus, Tellus mater, teque Jupiter,
obtestor."
The "Courtier" of Baldazzar Castiglione, 1528, is
the first attempt at periodical mnoral Essay with which
we are acquainted. The Noctes Atticwe of Aulus Gellius cannot be allowed to rank as such.
These lines were written over the closet door of M.
Menard,
Las d'esperer, et de me plaindre
De l'amour, des grands, et du sort
C'est ici que J'attends la mort
Sans la desirer ou la craindre.
Martin Luthler in his reply to Ieiry VllIth's book
by which the latter acquired the title of "Defender of
the Faith," calls the monarch very unceremoniously
"a pig, an ass, a dunghill, the spawn of an adder, a
basilisk, a lying buffoon dressed in a king's robes, a mad
fool with a frothy mouth and a whorish face."
The Psalter of Solomon, which contains S18 psalms, is
a work which was found in Greek in the library of Ausburg, and has been translated intoLatin by John Lewis
de la Cerda. It is supposed not to be Solomon's, but
the work of some Hellenistical Jew, and composed in
imitation of David's Psalms. The Psalter was known
to the ancients, and was formerly in the famous Alexandrian MS.
An unshaped kind of something first appeared,
is a line in Cowley's famous description of the Creation.
It is probable that the queen of Sheba was Balkisthat Sheba was a kingdom in the Southern part of Arabia Felix, and that the people were called Sabacans.
These lines of Claudian relate to the people and queen,
Medis, levibusque Sabreis
Imperathicsexus; reginarumqtie sub armis
Barbarie mnagna pars jacet.
Sheridan declared he would rather be the author of
the ballad called Hosier's Ghost, by Glover, than of the
Annals of Tacitus.
The word Jehovah is not Hebrew. The Hebrews
had no such letters as J or V. The word is properly
Iah-Uah-compounded of Iah Essence and Uah Existing. Its full meaning is tile self-existing essence of all
things.
The "Song of Solomon" throwing aside the heading
of the chapters, which is the work of the English translators, contains nothing which relates to the Savior or
the Church. It does not, like every other sacred book,
contain even the name of the Deity.
In the Vatican is an ancient picture of Adam, with
the Latin inscription "Adam divinitus edoctus, primus
scientiarum et literarum inventor."
The vword translated "slanderers" in I Timothy iii,
2, and that translated "false accusers" in Titus ii, 3, are
"female devils" in the original Greek of the New Testament.
The IHebrew language contains no word (except perhaps Jehovah) which conveys to the mind the idea of
Eternity. The translators of the Old Testamnient have
used the word Eternity but once.
"The slipper of Cinderella," says the editor of the
new edition of Warton "finds a parallel in the history
of the celebrated Rhodope." Cinderella is a tale of universal currency. An ancient Danish ballad has some
of the incidents. It is popular among the Welch-also
among the Poles-in Hesse and Swerbn. Schottky
found it among the Servian fables. Rollenbagen in his
Froschlimauseler speaks 6f it as the tale of the despised
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