No. I. QUOTING and MISQUOTING

No. i. !s POETRY. Anthracopalaemon crawled out of his hole, QUOTING AND MISQUOTING. And laughed at the fun till he turned into coal; 1A1 It JiALl'IHOHIi. As, for watching the game, he possessed great “With just enough of learning to mis- facilities, quote,” is one of the stinging lines in Byron’s Art tliou that loveliest daughter of thy clime From the far reaching limb of an Asterophyllites. British Bards and Scotch Reviews. This was That sparkiest in the sapphire of the wave, Macropetalichtliys now joined in the race, a fair retort upon the censorious critics, Whose bosom knew the story of thy brave, To force the Belemnites to give up the chase, against whom it was directed; but as to gener- And bears their memories onward to all time; In the light that ensued upon Scoharie Grit, Whose spell is on the land and on the sky, The Spirifer Crispis went into a fit. al readers it would be very unfair to charge an And in her lap the largess of a bride; Please watch Old Sauropus Primaevus make tracks absence of learning or culture upon them be- Who slirinest Art in monumental pride, On that slab of blue limestone, on purpose to tax cause of a failure to recite the thought or sen- To tell how true men live, and how they died ? The brains of Ike Lea, who will use all his lore timent of an author on all occasions with pre- Yet shall the glory of thy people speak To find out the shoes S. P. commonly wore. cise verbal accuracy. To enable themselves to Not in the life that pulses through the mart, On that marsh that will soon undergo alteration, do this they would be obliged to burden their Nor m trble’s grace, but in the knightly heart, The Ichthyosauri are taking their station, memories with words and phrases to the exclu- O queenly city of the Chesapeake. And posing themselves in attractive positions sion of more important subjects, and all for a • Yea, for the knightly heart of elder days To be afterwards found by our great expeditions. Hath dowered thee ; in sooth, a rarer crown The earth was, just then, in a rather warm state, purpose which can be served quite as well by Than pillared Art, and fairer than renown, And the sun’s rays beat hotly on Lingula slate, reference to the author’s works, or to some Of outward seeming and of passing praise. So the meeting stopped work and reclined at their handy book. When making such references Remember how they came, thy pilgrim band, ease, in conversation, strict verbal accuracy’ ought A godly race and bold, from weary skies, ’Neath the wide-spreading shade of umbrella trees not to be required ; but when writing for pub- To win thee birthright and with high emprize As a Dutch Iguanodon sauntering along, lication, it is unquestionably the right practice To make thee peerless in the Western Land. With his paws in his pockets and pipe large and strong, to verify whatever quotation is to be used, For they had heard of virgin fields that be wherever it is practicable to do so. The ob- (Had never yet their gold the sickle shorn, Chanced to tread on the tail of a young Ammonite, And brooding o’er them slept the primal morn) The meeting adjourned for a general fight. servance of this habit tends to keep our classic Where the day quivers in the saffron sea. CHORTJS : quotations free from corruption, and the Here on the lordly hills, for aye untrod, O, wonders were done by the shovel-nosed clam, neglect of it tends to what has occurred and And where the everlasting woods rejoice, The Eurypterus Remipes fought as he swam; will continue to occur—the twisting of terse In plighted love they lifted up their voice, The Pterypod swallowed himself in a rage, and apt expressions out of shape and meaning. And wept with bended foreheads on the sod. And thus ended the Palaeozoical age This last mentioned casualty has happened to —Lehigh (University) Journal. Wept, but as men may weep who joy have won, a saying attributed to Walpole, “ All men have Who keep their faith with heaven and troth with [men; CHEMICAL DITTY. their price.” There is no evidence that we Ah ! never should their maidens pine again know of, that he either said this or meant it ; By broken altars, crouching from the sun. INORGANIC. but there is evidence in Coxe’s Memoirs of Thy gentle homes knew hearts as true as steel, Oh! come where the cyanides silently flow, Walpole, that he held certain professed pa- Whose pledges ne’er proved false to friend or foe ; And the carburets droop o'er the oxides below; triots of his day in low esteem, and that allu- For they were Christian men in weal or woe, Where the rays of potassium lie white on the hill, And to their fathers’ G-od alone could kneel. ding to ''them, he said “ All those men have And the song of the silicate never is still. Like as the morning cometh upon bliss, Come, oh, come! their price.” This is quite a different thing Or he of Patmos saw in light unroll, Tumti, turn, turn! from the cynical and demoralizing sentiment Thy vision broke :—a city of the soul Peroxide of soda, and urani-um ! attributed to him in gthe much abused and Within the borders peace and justice kiss. While alcohol’s liquid at thirty degrees, almost universal mis-quotation referred to. And many a life of fragrance still thou hast, And no chemical change can effect manganese; On the other hand, some of the popular Whose psalms are worthy to be said and sung : While alkalies flourish and acids are free, forms of what purport to be quotations from And they shall keep thy glories ever young, My heart shall be constant, sweet science, to thee! well-known authors exhibit improvements in Fair Baltimore, nor alien to the Past. Yes, to thee! M. J. B. expressiveness and epigrammatic force. There Fiddledum dee! Zinc, borax, and bismuth, and H O plus C. are very few people unfamiliar with the phrase GEOLOGICAL DITTY. —London Fun. applied to office-holders, “ Few die, and none resign.” This is attributed to Jefferson, but is Ye Trylle of ye Trilobite. NOTE. “ Fair Baltimore” is a portion of a somewhat better than the way he put it. What A Polyp was chasing a Crinoid one day, he said about official vacancies was this: Through a thicket of algae just over the way, longer piece, the remainder of which, with When some noisy Belemnites, on mischief intent, some changes, and with a verse borrowed from “Those by death are few; by resignation Espied Master Crinoid and for him they went. this fragment, appeared in our paper a year none.” Here the popular [form is a manifest CHOBUS : ago, under the title of “ The Pilgrims of Mary- improvement; yet who can name the person Sing Trilobites. Rhizopods, Acalephs all, land.” The changes made in the latter por- who was the author of the quotation as it now How the Ichthyoeephalus gave a masked ball; tion, to adapt it to its title, induced us to with- stands ? Additional vigor has been given in Says the Archaeaniscus to Megalosaurus, hold any signature at the time. ED. the same way to a saying of Josiah Quincy, If we don’t travel lively, they’ll get there before us. 2 GEORGETOWN who, in opposing the Louisiana purchase, “ As good luck would have it.” These are Would it not be well for you, if the idea has argued in Congress that if the hill should pass, used in scores of ways, without the slightest not already been broached, to suggest as a vol- it would work a virtual dissolution of the thought of where they come from. From the untary part of tlie College curriculum, classes Union, and that it would be the duty of1 some Bible we get “ Escaped with the skin of his of phonography and telegraphy ? In my opin- of the free States to definitely prepare for a teeth;” “ The root of the matter ;” “ The pen ion, sometime in the future, near or remote, separation, “amicably, if they can ; violently, of a ready writer ;”“ At their wit’s end;” electricity will be the chief motor and illumi- if they must.” The popular form of this, de- “Fearfully and wonderfully made “’“Mer- nating power, and newspapers will be published rived from Henry Clay’s misquotation of it is : chant princes” (in Isaiah, however,it is “ whose in short-hand. Why, look you how startingly “ peaceably, if we can ; forcibly, if we must”— merchants are princes”); “ A feast of fat the world spurts : Winans’s cigar steamer, a much more muscular diction. Under the things ;” “ The burden and heat of the day ;” upon which a fortune was lavished, would same process, a wider popular use and under- “Absent in body but present in spirit;” and have crossed the ocean in five days with the standing has been given to the first line of even “Spreading himself like a^reenbay mails and thereby revolutionized trade. But, Walter Scott’s couplet: tree.” There are many other phrases uncon- just as the experiment tended to perfection, 11 Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, sciously quoted from those great sources of the cable was laid successfully and it annihila- Morn of toil, nor night of waking.” expressive and vigorous English, but it would ted space, so to speak, and the Winans inven- Almost uniformly this is repeated “ sleep the carry us too far to follow them further at this tion.

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