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Page 33
"These verses are not the production of Pope, as might indeed readily
have been perceived, but of Aaron Hill."
I must confess I cannot agree with the remark. If the point be to be
decided by internal evidence, the verses are surely Pope's. The collection
of A. Hill's miscellaneous works was a posthumous one for the benefit of
the family, and includes several other poems, which were certainly not
written by him. Little stress, therefore, can be laid upon the fact of the
lines being included in this collection, which seems to have comprised
whatever was found amongst Hill's papers, without any nice examination or
scrutiny. My conclusion is, that the verses are Pope's; and it is at all
events certain that they are not Charles Yorke's.
JAMES CROSSLEY.
_Archbishop Bolton of Cashel_ (Vol. iii., p. 39.).--He was born at
Burrishool, in the county of Mayo, about 1678; graduated at Trinity
College, Dublin; was ordained deacon in 1702; priest in 1703; became a
prebendary of St. Patrick's, Dublin, in 1707; chancellor of that cathedral
in 1714; vicar-general of the diocese of Dublin in 1720; vicar of Finglas,
near Dublin, in the same year; pr�centor of Christ Church, Dublin, in 1722;
bishop of Clonfert in the same year; bishop of Elphin in 1724; archbishop
of Cashel in 1729; to which diocese he bequeathed his valuable library.
He died in January, 1744, and was buried at St. Werburgh's Church, in
Dublin.
{73} See my _Fasti Ecclesi� Hibernic�_, vols. i., ii., and iv., for a few
more particulars, if required.
H. COTTON.
Thurles, Ireland, Jan. 20. 1851.
_Erasmus and Farel_ (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--In my _Life of Calvin_, p. 46., I
mention that Erasmus named Farel, _Phallicus_; and infer that he probably
did so from some manifestation of amorous propensities on the part of that
reformer.
A querist in your last number (J.C.R.) points out that D'Aubign�, or his
translator, spells the word _Fallicus_, and refers it to the deceitful
character of Farel.
_Phallicus_ is a Greek word, and has a meaning--[Greek: phallikos], of or
belonging to the [Greek: phallos]. _Fallicus_, to the best of my knowledge,
is neither Greek nor Latin, and has no meaning. Erasmus, in his epistles,
constantly spells the word _Phallicus_. (See _Epp._ 698. 707. &c. Leyden,
ed. 1706.) And that I was justified in drawing from it an inference which
is in analogy with its meaning, the following passages, in the last of the
epistles just cited, will establish:--
"Hunc stomachum in me concepit (Phallicus) quod in _spongia_ dubitem de
Lutheri spiritu: pr�terea quod scripserim, quosdam sordidos, et _impur�
vit�_ se jactitare nomine Evangelii."
And a little farther on--
"At tamen quicquid hactenus in me blateravit Phallicus, non minus vane
quam virulente, facite condonabitur hominis morbo, modo posthac sumat
_mores Evangelii pr�cone dignos_."
THOS. H. DYER.
London, Jan. 20. 1851.
_Early Culture of the Imagination_, (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--The interesting
article to which MR. GATTY refers will be found in the _Quarterly Review_,
No. XLI. Sir Walter Scott, in a letter addressed to Edgar Taylor, Esq. (the
translator of _German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories by M.M. Grimm_),
dated Edinburgh, 16th Jan. 1823, says--
"There is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them [the _Tales_]
which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the
imagination and soften the heart of childhood, than the good-boy
stories which have been in later years composed for them. In the latter
case, their minds are, as it were, put into the stocks, like their feet
at the dancing-school, and the moral always consists in good moral
conduct being crowned with temporal success. Truth is, I would not give
one tear shed over _Little Red Riding-Hood_ for all the benefit to be
derived from a hundred Histories of Jemmy Goodchild.... In a word, I
think the selfish tendencies will be soon enough acquired in this
arithmetical age; and that, to make the higher class of character, our
wild fictions--like our own simple music--will have more effect in
awakening the fancy and elevating the disposition, than the colder and
more elaborate compositions of modern authors and composers."
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