Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853

and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853, by Various

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: August 21, 2007 [EBook #22369]
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{397} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 182.] SATURDAY, APRIL 23. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page Poetical Epithets of the Nightingale, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 397 On a Passage in Orosius, by E. Thomson 399 Notes on several Misunderstood Words, by Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith 400 A Work on the Macrocosm 402 Dr. South's Latin Tract against Sherlock, by James Crossley 402 Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, S. Singleton, &c. 403
MINOR NOTES:--Robert Weston--Sonnet on the Rev. Joseph Blanco White--English and American Booksellers --Odd Mistake--Thomas Shakspeare--Early Winters 404
QUERIES:-- Satirical Playing Cards, by T. J. Pettigrew 405 Movable Metal Types anno 1435, by George Stephens 405 Portraits at Brickwall House 406
MINOR QUERIES:--Christian Names--Lake of Geneva --Clerical Portrait--Arms: Battle-axe--Bullinger's Sermons--Gibbon's Library--Dr. Timothy Bright --Townley MSS.--Order of St. John of Jerusalem --Consecrated Roses, Swords, &c.--West, Kipling, and Millbourne--Font Inscriptions--Welsh Genealogical Queries--The Butler and his Man William--Longhi's Portraits of Guidiccioni--Sir George Carr--Dean Pratt--Portrait of Franklin--"Enquiry into the State of the Union" 406
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Bishop of Oxford in 1164--Roman Inscription found at Battle Bridge-- Blow-shoppes--Bishop Hesketh--Form of Prayer for Prisoners 409
REPLIES:-- Edmund Spenser, and Spensers, or Spencers, of Hurstwood, by J. B. Spencer, &c. 410 Throwing old Shoes for Luck, by John Thrupp 411 Orkneys in Pawn 412 Hogarth's Pictures, by E. G. Ballard and W. D. Haggard 412 Phantom Bells and Lost Churches 413
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Photographic Collodion--Filtering Collodion--Photographic Notes --Colouring Collodion Pictures--Gutta Percha Baths 414
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Pilgrimages to the Holy Land--"A Letter to a Convocation Man"--King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate--Eulenspiegel or Howleglas --Sir Edwin Sadleir--Belfry Towers separate from the Body of the Church--God's Marks--"The Whippiad" --The Axe that beheaded Anne Boleyn, &c. 415
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Books and Odd Volumes wanted 417 Notices to Correspondents 418 Advertisements 418
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NOTES.
POETICAL EPITHETS OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
Having lately been making some research among our British poets, as to the character of the nightingale's song, I was much struck with the great quantity and diversity of epithets that I found applied to the bird. The difference of opinion that has existed with regard to the quality of its song, has of course led the poetical adherents of either side to couple the nightingale's name with that very great variety of adjectives which I shall presently set down in a tabular form, with the names of the poetical sponsors attached thereto. And, in making this the subject of a Note, I am only opening up an old Query; for the character of the nightingale's song has often been a matter for discussion, not only for poets and scribblers, but even for great statesmen like Fox, who, amid all the anxieties of a political life, could yet find time to defend the nightingale from being a "most musical, most melancholy" bird.
Coleridge's onslaught upon this line, in his poem of "The Nightingale," must be well known to all lovers of poetry; and his re-christening of the bird by that epithet which Chaucer had before given it:
"'Tis the merry nightingale, That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates, With fast thick warble, his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music!"
The fable of the nightingale's origin would, of course, in classical times, give the character of melancholy to its song; and it is rather remarkable that ?schylus makes Cassandra speak of the happy chirp of the nightingale, and the Chorus to remark upon this as a further proof of