Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850Mr. Markland's ascertainment (Vol. i., p. 481.) of the origin...
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Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

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Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850

Mr. Markland's ascertainment (Vol. i., p. 481.) of the origin of Johnson's "From China to Peru," where, however, I sincerely believe our great moralist intended not so much to borrow the phrase as to profit by its temporary notoriety and popularity, reminds me of a conversation, many years since, with the late William Wordsworth, at which I happened to be present, and which now derives an additional interest from the circumstance of his recent decease. The great majority of your readers will without doubt, consider this compliment to Dryden well and justly bestowed, and his version, besides having the merit of classical expression, to be at once concise and poetical. And pity it is that one who could form so true an estimate of the excellences of other writers, and whose own powers, it will be acknowledged, were of a very high order, should so often have given us reason to regret his puerilities and absurdities. This language, perhaps, will sound like treason to many; but permit me to give an instance in which the late poet-laureate seems to have admitted (which he did not often do) that he was wrong. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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