Chapter C: Hardwick

St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.

The Journal kept by Lightfoot will be found in the 13th volume of his _Works_, as edited by the Rev. J. R. Pitman: London, 1825, 8vo. It should be studied by all those who desire to see a revived Convocation.

S. R. M.

{369} _Epigrams_ (Vol. vii., pp. 175. 270.).--"Suum cuique" being a principle which holds good with regard to literary property as well as to property of every other description, I can inform your correspondent BALLIOLENSIS that the epigram on Dr. Toe, which he says was "represented to have proceeded from the pen of Thomas Dunbar, of Brasenose," was in reality the production of my respected neighbour, the Rev. William Bradford, M.A., rector of Storrington, Sussex. It was written by that gentleman when he was an undergraduate of St. John's College, Oxford. BALLIOLENSIS may rely upon the accuracy of this information, as I had it from Mr. Bradford's own lips only yesterday. The correct version of the epigram is that given by SCRAPIANA, p. 270.

R. BLAKISTON.

Ashington, Sussex.

"_God and the world_" (Vol. vii., pp. 134. 297.).--These lines are found, as quoted by W. H., in Coleridge's _Aids to Reflection_, p. 87., ed. 1831. Coleridge gives them as the words of a sage poet of the preceding generation (meaning, I suppose, the generation preceding that of Archbishop Leighton, a passage from whose works he has introduced as an aphorism just before). I have often wondered who this poet was, and whether the last line were really a quotation from _Macbeth_, or whether Shakspeare and the unknown poet had both but borrowed a popular saying. I also had my suspicions that Coleridge himself might have patched the verses a little; and the communication of your correspondent RT., tracing the lines in their original form to the works of Fulke Greville Lord Brooke, now verifies his conjecture. It may be worth while to point out another instance of this kind of manufacture by the same skilful hand. In the first volume of _The Friend_ (p. 215., ed. 1818), Coleridge places at the head of an essay a quotation of two stanzas from Daniel's _Musophilus_. The second, which precedes in the original that which Coleridge places first, is thus given by him:

"_Since writings_ are the veins, the arteries,
And undecaying life-strings of those hearts,
That still shall pant and still shall exercise
_Their mightiest powers when Nature none imparts;
And the strong constitution of their praise
Wear out the infection of distemper'd days_."

Daniel wrote as follows (vol. ii. p. 373., ed. 1718):

"_For these lines_ are the veins, the arteries
And undecaying life-strings of those hearts,
That still shall pant and still shall exercise
_The motion spirit and nature both imparts,
And still with those alive so sympathize,
As nourish'd with their powers, enjoy their parts_."