Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 by Various
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When the melodious murmur sings
'Mid her slow-heav'd voluptuous wings." T.J. [Footnote 3: "It was an ancient notion that the music of the swan was produced by its wings, and inspired by the zephyr. See this subject, treated with his accustomed erudition, by Mr. Jodrell, in his _Illustrations of the Ion of Euripides_."--Bulwer's _Siamese Twins_.] _Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs._--In consequence of the suggestion of [Greek: D.] (Vol. ii., p. 220.), I have applied to the owner of Sir T. Herbert's MS. account of the last days of Charles I., and the answer which I have received is as follows: "I found the first part of Sir Thos. Herbert's MS. (56 pages) is not in the edition of Woods _Athenæ_ Lord W. has; but I found a note in a pedigree book, saying it was printed in 1702, 8vo. I suppose it can be ascertained whether this is true." Perhaps some of your readers may know whether there is such a volume in existence as that described by my friend. ALFRED GATTY. _Portraits of Stevens and Cotton and Bunyan._--The plan of "NOTES AND QUERIES" appears well adapted to record the change of hands into which portraits of literary men may pass. I accordingly offer two to your notice. The portrait of George Stevens, the celebrated annotator on Shakspeare, who |
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