Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various
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On l. 853. (G.) Compare this line of Drayton in his _Baron's Warrs_:-- "Of gloomy magicks and benumbing charms." Vol. i. p. 110. ed. 1753. On l. 861. (G.):-- "Through whose _translucent_ sides much light is born." Ph. Fletcher's _Pur. Island_, C. 5. St. 31. p. 54. On l. 862. (M.):-- "All hundred nymphs, that in his rivers dwell, About him flock, with water-lilies crowned." Ph. Fletcher's _Poet. Miscell._, p 67. ed. 1633. On l. 863. (G.) The use of Ambergris, mentioned in Warton's note, appears from Drayton, v. ii. p. 483.:-- "Eat capons cooked at fifteen crowns apiece, With their fat bellies stuft with ambergrise." On l. 886. (G.):-- "The wealth of Tarsus nor the _rocks of pearl_, _That pave the court of Neptune_, can weigh down |
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