Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various
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of that Father (S. Augustini, _Opera Omnia_, Paris, 1690, vol. x.
part ii. p. 272.), gives the verses--no doubt an adaptation of Horace--thus:-- "Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere vitam Hanc mensam indignam noverit esse sibi." The Benedictine editors subjoin two readings of the pentameter:-- "Hac mensa indignam noverit esse suam." "Hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi." LLEWELYN ST. GEORGE. * * * * * _Mr. Cresswell and Miss Warneford_.--At p. 157. of the "NOTES AND QUERIES," your correspondent "B." inquires about a pamphlet relating to the marriage, many years ago, of Mr. Cresswell and Miss Warneford. "P.C.S.S." cannot give the precise title of that pamphlet in question; but he is enabled to state, on the authority of Watts (_Biblioth. Brit._), and on that of his old friend Sylvanus Urban (_Gent. Mag._ vol. xvii. p. 543.), that it was published in London, towards the end of the year 1747, and that the very remarkable and very disgraceful transactions to which it refers were afterwards (in 1749) made the subject of a novel, called _Dalinda_, or _The Double Marriage_. Lond. 12mo. Price threepence. The gentleman who was the hero of this scandalous affair was Mr. |
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