Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
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affording an appropriate domicile to the curate of the parish.
ALFRED GATTY. Ecclesfield, March 26. 1850. _Queries as to "Lines on London Dissenting Ministers" of a former Day_.--Not having made _Notes_ of the verses so entitled, I beg to submit the following _Queries_:-- 1. Does there exist any printed or manuscript copy of lines of the above description, in the course of which Pope's "Modest Foster" is thus introduced and apostrophised:-- "But see the accomplish'd orator appear, Refined in judgment, and in language clear: Thou only, Foster, hast the pleasing art At once to charm the ear and mend the heart!" Other conspicuous portraits are those of THOMAS BRADBURY, ISAAC WATTS, and SAMUEL CHANDLER. The date of the composition must be placed between 1704 and 1748, but I have to solicit information as to who was its author. 2. Has there been preserved, in print or manuscript, verses which circulated from about 1782-1784, on the same body of men, as characterised, severally, by productions of the vegetable world, and, in particular, by _flowers_? The _bouquet_ is curious, nor ill-selected and arranged. One individual, for example, finds his |
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