Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
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page 24 of 68 (35%)
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author of the following epigram:--
IN MEMORIAM G.B.M.D. "Te tandem tuus Oreus habet, quo civibus Orei Gratius haud unquam misit Apollo caput; Quippe tuo jussu terras liquere, putantque Tartara se jussu linquere posse tuo." The person alluded to was Sir W. Browne, M.D., the founder of the Browne medals in the University of Cambridge. Some old fellow of King's College may be able to inform me. The medals were first given about the year 1780, and in the first year, I presume, out of respect to the memory of the donor, no subject was given for Epigrams. It has occurred to me, that perhaps some wag on that occasion sent the lines as a quiz. W.S. Richmond, Surrey _Couplet in De Foe_-- "Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise, And good men wicked liberties despise." This couplet is at the end of the second letter in De Foe's _Great Law of Subordination_, p. 42. Is it his own? If not, where did he get it? |
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