Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850 by Various
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M. Oxford. * * * * * With regard to the symbols of the four Evangelists, "JARLZBERG" may consult a Sermon by Boys on the portion of Scripture appointed for the Epistle for Trinity-Sunday. (_Works_, p. 355. Lond. 1622.) R.G. [To these Replies we will only add a reference to Mrs. Jameson's interesting and beautiful volume on _Sacred and Legendary Art_, vol. i. p. 98., _et seq._, and the following Latin quatrain:-- "Quatuor hæc Dominum signant animalia Christum, Est _Homo_ nascendo, _Vitulus_que sacer moriendo, Et _Leo_ surgendo, coelos _Aquila_ que petendo; Nec minus hos scribas animalia et ipsa figurant."] * * * * * COMPLEXION. _Complexion_ is usually (and I think universally) employed to express the _tint of the skin_; and the hair and eyes are spoken of separately when the occasion demands a specific reference to them. "NEMO" |
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