obferved, that the following imprecations in ver. 17. are not the imprecations of David against his enemies, but of his enemies against him. Before this was obferved, nothing was more diftant from the thoughts of the learned: and now it is obferved, nothing is more obvious." Such an alteration of the fenfe does the fupplying an easy ellipfis (fuch as faying, they fay,) &c. frequent in the Hebrew poefy especially, make for the better! Many of these our learned author has fupplied; and fome our new tranflation of the Bible takes notice of, as in Pf. xxii. ver. 7. and xii, ver. 8.-So likewife Ifai. xiv. 8. &c. Yours, &c, T. B. Mr. URBAN, Oxford, Feb. 17. COSMAS and Damianus, whofe le gend Fcclefiafticus enquires after (Gent. Mag. Nov. 1779, P. 540,) Are Saints very well known in the Roman catholic and Greek churches. They were phyficians; and are hence efteemed the patrons of all that profefs the art of healing With regard to barbers, I apprehend the fraternity at large have no claim to their protection, but only the tribe of barber furgeons. An extract respecting thefe martyrs was given in the Gent. Mag. for De. cember, p. 583. The Rom fh account in the Breviary is nearly the fame; and the Legends printed by Caxton give a limilar but larger detail of their fufferings and martyrdom. In the Greek church, as may be feen in Ricaut's Prefent State of it, p. 142, &c. they are called the "Holy Anagyri, or thofe that took no money" in the exercife of their art. And the New Th-faurus (printed in modern Greek at Venice, 1628,) containing bomiles upon all the faints throughout the year, informs us, that of thefe Anargyri, there were three ovulia or pairs. The names of each were Colinas and Damianus; each of them were brothers, chridians, and phyficians. The firft were of Rome, under the reign of Carinus: they were ftoned, and their festival is the first of July. The fecond were born in Arabia ; and, traveling from place to place, performing fpiritual and bodily cures, they came at last, in the time of Dioclean and Maximian, to Agæ a city of Lycia, or (as it probably should be) Cilicia. This was the fe ne of their sufferings and death, as they are related in the Romith church. Their day, according to this book, is the 17th of October. The third were of Afia Minor: their father was at first a Gentile, but afterwards a believer. Their mother, whofe name was Theodotè, was a Chriftian from her childhood. They died in peace at a place called Pherema in Afia; and their memory is celebrated on the first of November. The first and the third Anargyri are both registered in the Greek calendar; but the laft only have a diftin&t office appointed for them. Chriftodorus, an Egyptian poet, wrote an account of their miracles; as we are informed by Suidas in his Lexicon, and Gyraldus, in his Hiftory of the -Poets, p. 221. Du On the fubject of this first query your Magazine might be filled for the whole year perhaps more than enough has been faid already. With refpect to the second query, I have nothing but conjecture to offer. Cange informs us, that the word Curfus means "Officium ecclefiafticum, feu feries orationum, pfalmorum, hymnorum, et cæterarum precationum, quæ quotidie in ecclefia decantantur." And Carpentier, in his Appendix, fays, "Hinc Clerc courrier appellari videtur qui huic officio decantando intereffe tenetur." I guess therefore that Canons Curfal might be fo called, becaufe it was their business to read divine fervice in the church. Perhaps the word might alfo denote that they were to perform their office by rotation; in which fenfe the Englith word courfe is often ufed, particuJarly in the tranflation of the Bible. If the ftatutes of the churches are in being, they may probably either confirm this conjecture, or give the true reafon of the appellation. Of the third query I am entirely ignorant. R. C. Yours, &c. Original Letter of Bishop Butler.-Remarks on Dodfley's Poems. 173 "Good Sir, "When or where this will find you I know not but I would not defer thanking you for the obliging fatisfaction you exprefs in my tranflation to the See of Durham, I wish my behaviour in it may be fuch as to justify his Majefty's choice, and the approbation of it, which you (much too kindly I suppose) think to be general. If one is enabled to do a little good, and to prefer worthy men, this indeed is a valuable of life, and will afford fatisfaction in the clofe of it; but the change of station in itself will in no wife answer the trouble of it, and of getting into new forms of living :-I mean with refpect to the peace and happiness of one's own mind, for in fortune to be fure it will. Brifiol, Aug. 13, 1750. Mr. URBAN, I am, &c. I NOW proceed with my defign of illuftrating Mr. Dodley's Poems. The two laft volumes, now before me, I must observe, were printed in 1758. VOL, V. Pages 24 and 26. "The Lady of Quality," here addreffed by Mr. Shenfone, was probably his friend and neighbour Lady Luxborough, of whole goodness of heart, as well as genius, her letters give a moft favourable idea. Page 95. "Vacuna," [by the Rev.] Mr. [Sneyd] D[avies], (afterwards D.D.) Prebendary of Litchfield, and Archdeacon of Derby. He died in 1769. Page 98. On J[ohn] W[halley] ranging pamphlets. By the fame." Mr. Whalley was Fellow of King's College, and published a volume of poems, 1745. Another volume was published after his death. Page 101. Epithalamium, by the fame," was, I fuppofe, on the marriage, at which he affitted, of his friend John Dodd, Eq. of Swallowfield, Berks, to Mifs Jennings, one of the fitters of the prefent Sir Philip Jennings Clerke. "A Scene at Swallowfield," by the fame, was inferted in the Gent. Mag. for 1779. Page 110. "Stella and Flavia," here faid to be "by J.Earl," was really by Mrs. Pilkington, though printed as Mrs. Barber's in her poems. See the Supplement to Swift. Page 188. William Harrison is well known by Swift's patronage, which procured him the places of Secretary at Utrecht and Gazetteer; and by his pathetic lamentation of his death, (which happened Feb. 14, 1712-13) in the "Journal to Stella." See the Mag. for 1777, pp. 419 and 421; and a more particular account of him in Mr. Nichols's Collection, vol.iv.p.180. Pages 204, 308. "Mifs Laurence:" this famous pump-girl married, with an unblemished reputation, an innkeeper at Speenham-lands. Page 210. "A Letter to Corinna,” &c. was by Ifaac Hawkins Browne, Efq. and is printed in his poems. The occafion of it is related in his article in the Biographia Britannica, 2d edition. "Bishop Hoadly faid, these verfes would do more good than twenty fermons; and the late Lord Lyttel ton expreffed a high commendation of their moral tendency." Page 212. "Sir John" [Gonson] was then a Middlesex justice. Page 240. Captain Thomas] in the lile of Skie to Captain P[rice] at Fort Auguftus." This military author was once student of Christ-church, Oxford, and a divine. He was mor tally wounded, and taken prifoner, at the firft attack on Belle-ifle, April 8, 1761, being then Quarter-mafter-general,and Lieutenant-colonel of Whitmore's regiment of foot. Page 244. "To Mr. John] H[oadly] at the Temple, &c. By the Rev. Mr. S[traight] of Magdalen College, Oxford." Mr. John Hoadly, the Bishop's youngest fon, (afterwards LL.D. &c.) was then studying the law, which, however, he foon quitted, being admitted at Corpus Chrifti College, Cambridge, in June 1730, and ordained by his father in 1735. Some "Memoirs of his Life and Writings" were given in the Gent. Mag, for 1776, p. 164 *: he died that year, Thefe Memoirs, by the way, were purloined, without any acknowledgment, in the last Town and Country Magazine. EDITOR. March March 16. Of his friend Mr. Straight (above-mentioned), Vicar of Findon, in Suffex, and Prebendary of Sarum (in 1732), fome anecdotes are inferted in the fame vol. p. 214. Page 247. "You and B[en.]"The Bishop's eldeft fon, M. D. &c." Page 248. To the Rev. Mr. J[ohn] S[traight], 1731. By [obn] Hoadly]." Page 251. "Answer to the foregoing. By J. Straight]." The four next pieces are "by the fame." Page 258. " Καμβρομυομαχία, οι the Moufe trap; being a tranflation of Mr. Holdsworth's Mufcipula, 1737.” This and all the fucceeding poems, to p. 288, were by Mr. John Hoadly. P. 281, "Prologue fpoken at Hackney School, &c. by Mr. J[ames] Yorke], now Bishop of Gloucester." Page 296. "Upon an alcove, now at Parfons Green :" by Mrs. Bennet, fifter of Edw. Bridgen, Efq. who married Mr. Richardfon's fecond daugh ter. Page 309. "To a Lady in London by Mfs C[arier]." The blubing gale, instead of bluftering; and giddy bud, instead of aid,' are horrid blunders of the prefs. Page 311." Ode to Spring: by Mifs F[rar,]" of Huntingdon, now the wife of the Rev Mr. Peckard. Page 313. "Ode to a Thrush:" by Mifs Pennington,]" daughter of the Rev. Mr. Pennington, Rector of Huntingdon. She died in 1759. VOL. VI. In Dr. Akenfide's Hymn, p. 6. 1. últ. for For' r. Far.' In Mr. Whitebead's 2d Elegy, p. 47. 1. 4. for much,' r. muft.' And in Mr. Jenyns's tranflation of Mr. Browne's poem, p. 75. 1. 25. for let's not unbid,' r. 'ler none unbid." Page 129. "To Sir Robert Walpole:" by the Hon. Mr. D[edington,] afterwards Lord Melcombe. Page 138. "To the Hon. and Rev. Frederick] C[ornwallis,]" now Archbishop of Canterbury: by the Rev. Mr. Davies, abovementioned. "To the Rev. Thomas] Taylor] D. D." By the fame. Page 143. Page 158. Mr. Titley" was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and afterwards Envoy to the Court of Denmark. Page 163. 1. 22, for " The" r. " If he." In note, r. Highclear, the feat of the Hon. R[obert] H[erbert]." Page 230. "Lady Mary] Wortley] to Sir William] Yonge]." Page 233. "A Song, &c. by T. Percy];" I prefume, the very inge nious editor of "Reliques of Ancient Poetry," now Dean of Carlisle. Page 255. "Horace, b. 11, ode ii. imitated by Lord B[ath]. Paul 11 (query Whitehead ?) to Faz." [Nicholas Fazakerley.] Page 256. L[eicefter.] "Stanza V." Earl Page 258. "A Panegyric on Ale.” By T[bomas] W[arton]." Page 265. "To C[harles] P[ratt] Efq, now Lord Camden." By Mr. Davies, abovementioned. Page 276." An Ode to Sculpture.' By Mr. (now Dr.) Scott, Rector of Simonburn, in Northumberland. Page 284. "At feeing Archbishop Williams's Monument in Carnarvon. fhire." By Mr. Davies, abovementioned. Page 298. "On a Spider," was by the Rev. Dr. Littleton, Fellow of Eton College; the author also of a poetical letter printed with his name, p.290, which first appeared in Gent. Mag. for 1738, p. 42. Page 306. "N[orfolk] has murdered Sleep" the Duchefs of that title, whofe non-invitation of Lady Toccafioned this Elegy. Thefe fparks, I hope, will elicit more fire from those who have it in their power to ftrike it, before it be too late. With how much more pleasure should we now read the Spectators, if we had all the intelligence which those who lived at or near the time of their publication could have afforded! Till lately, how little was it known that the late excellent Earl of Hardwicke, andthat ecclefiaftical mountebank,Orator Henley, preluded to their very dif ferent fame, by trying their skill in that Ulyffean bow! And now I am on the fubject, I will purfue it a little farther, by adding to that work such illustrations as I can give, and by naming several of the authors, fome of them hitherto unknown, whofe papers are not specified in the last number, where we are only told that C, L, I, O, are Mr. Addifon's fignature, and X Mr. Budgell's. SPECTATOR. VOL. I. In No. 33 and 53, two letters figned R. B. and both the letters in No. 66, were by Mr. Hughes. No. 50 (by Mr. Addifon), the Journal ofthe four Indian Kings, Swift lays, was made on The Spectator illuftrated. on a noble hint he gave long before for the Tatlers. "I repent," adds he, " he ever had it. I intended to have written a book on the fubject. I believe he has spent it all in one paper, and all the under-hints there are mine too." See the Supplement to Saijt. VOL. II. No. 91, the letter in No. 104, and that in No. 141, were by Mr. Hughes. In No. 92, the letter figned Leonora was by Mifs Sheppard (afterwards Mrs. Perry). In No. 140, the letter figned Parthenia,and in No.163, that figned Leonora, were by her fifter, collateral defcendants of Sir Fleetwood Shepheard, of facetious memory. VOL. III. No. 210, in No. 220 the fecond letter, in No. 230 all except the last letter, the letter in No. 231 *, where the young finger" mentioned, in Almahide, was Mrs. Barbier, and No. 237, were by Mr. Hughes. VOL. IV. In No. the laft etter, No. 302, 252 No. 306, and the letter in No. 311, were by the fame hand. No. 36 was never fpecified before. Parthenia was a Mifs Rotheram, (fifter to the fecond Lady of the fixth Lord Effingham) afterwards married to the Reverend Mr. Wyatt, master of Felfted fchool, in Effex. difon's "Obfervation," in No. 253, Mr. Adon Homer's defcription of Silyphus in the Odyffey, (" which none of the critics," he fays, "have taken notice of, ") was made before †," Mr. Pope tells him," by Dionyfius of Halicarnaffus, who, in his treatise συνθεσεις ονοματων, treats very largely περι of thete veries.' See Pope's Letters. In No. 33 (by Budgell). the gentleman whole life was preferved in the civil war, by the gratitude of his fchool-fellow, was the father of Arch. bishop Wake, as we are told by Dr. Grey, in his edition of Hudibras, vol. i. p. 392, note: and there is little doubt that Judge Nicholas was the Judge, as he tried Penruddock. See, State Trials, vol. ii. p. 260. No. 285, 'mifcreated' was not coined by Milton, being used by Spenfer in the Fairy Queen. This number Mr. Tickell has inferted, by mistake, in his 4to edition of Mr. Addison's Works, though it has no fignature. Thefe words are omitted in Mr. Tickell's edition, but were extant in all during Mr. Addifon's life. VOL. V. In No. 364, the letter figned Philip cellor Hardwicke, then Mr. Yorke, Homebred was by the late Lord Chanand, being but 19, probably clerk to Mr. Salkeld, Attorney at Law. No. 375 was by Mr. Hughes. VOL, VI. In No. 396, a letter figned Peter de bridge, with much local wit and Quir, from St. John's College, Camquaintnefs, was by Mr. Henley, afterwards the noted Orator. In No. 405, the "Opera" mentioned was VOL. VII. No. 494. The "very famous independent minifter" here mentioned is fuppofed to be Dr. Thomas Goodwin, one of the affembly of divines that fat at Westminster, and Prefident of Magdalen College, Oxford. He attended Cromwell, his friend and patron, on his death-bed, and was very confident that he would not die, from a fuppofed revelation communicated to him in a prayer. When he found himfelf mistaken, he exclaimed, in a subfequent addrefs to God, "Thou haft deceived us, and we were deceived." He died Feb. 23, 1679, aged 80. No. 520, a letter figned F. J. was by a Mr. Franchamn, of Norwich. No. 525, 537, 54, and 554, were by Mr. Hughes. In No. 527, the last letter and verfes were by Mr. Pope. It appears, by a fubfequent letter from Pope to Steele (fee his letters), that Pope was forry that the notion about Adrian's verfes, in No. 532, was published as his; and he alfo criticifes fome of Steele's affertions on that fubject. In the fame number the Verfes were by Mr. Tickell. VOL. VIII. No. 572 and 633 were by the Rev. Mr. Pearce, then Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, afterwards Biand 635 (the laft), by Mr. Grove. fhop of Rochester. No. 588, 626, The verses in No 591 were by Mr. Gilbert Budgell, Euitace's elder brother. In No. 603, the "paftoral Ballad" was by Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Byrom, on Mifs Joanna Bentley, the Doctor's youngest daughter, afterwards Mrs. Cumberland. 620,"The Royal Progress" was by In No. Mr. Tickell. And in No. 628, the Translation of Cato's Soliloquy was by the Rev. Dr. Bland, Dean of Dur ham. Swift never told his best friends which were his papers. Perhaps the ambassador of Bantam's letter, No. 557, was one. His Tatlers are accurately pointed out in the Supplement to his Works. In the Guardian, befides those by Budgell, Pope, and Gay, which are fpecified in the preface, No. 22, 23, 28, 30, and 32, were by Mr. Tickell; 37 by Mr. Hughes, 40 by Mr. Pope, ironically praifing his own paftorals; 56, 66, by Dr. Parnell; 69 by Mr. (afterwards Bifhop), Berkeley; and in No. 121, the letter figned Ned Mum, by Mr. (afterwards Bifhop) Pearce. The ingenious foreigner, tioned in the N. B. of No. 27, was M. Deflandes, who came about that time from France, with the Duc d'Aumont, was a free thinker, and had published an historical lift of all who died laughing. He had the fmall pox in England, of which he recovered. In No. 41. "D" is Difmallo, or Lord Nottingham. Yours, &c. men ' J. D. Mr. URBAN, April 5. THE pleafure I have received from the accurate remarks on Mr. Dodfley's Poems, in your laft Magazine, induces me to trouble you with an addition to what is faid in P. 123, on vo'. iii, p. 240: "Nobiliffimæ Lucia was the late Countess of Rochford, and WILL," &c. is fact. I was with Garrick when he wrote it; but as there were two late Counteffes of Rochford, viz. Eliz. + Savage, married to the father of the prefent Earl; and the lately deceafed Countefs, the fubject of this little epigram; Betsey was natural daughter to Lord Rivers; Lucy, daughter of Edward Younge, Efq. of Durnford, in the county of Wilts; the fubject which the inimitable Garrick employed his pen on, for whom he had the greatest refpect and efteem, and frequently paffed his time with in the country. It has escaped your intelligent correfpondent's obfervation, (and I now tell it you on the very beft authority,) that" The Lawyer's Farewell to his Mufe," in vol. iv. p. 228. was by the late excellent Sir William Blackstone. Yours, &c. An Old Cufiomer. This, I know, has alfo been afcribed by many to Bishop Atterbury. This lady, we apprehend, was chriftened "Beffey," and fo the is styled on her print from Kneller. EDITOR. Memoirs of the late JOSEPH HIGHMORE, Eq. MR. Jofeph Highmore, whofe death was mentioned p.154, was born in the parish of St. James, Garlickhithe, London, June 13, 1692, being the third fon of Mr. Edward Highmore *, a coal merchant in Thames, ftreet. Having fuch an early and ftrong inclination to painting, that he could think of nothing elfe with pleasure, his father endeavoured to gratify him in a propofal to his uncle, who was ferjeant-painter to King William, and with whom Mr. (afterwards Sir James) Thornhill † had served his apprenticeship. But this was afterwards for good reafons declined, and he was articled as clerk to an attorney, July 18, 1707; but fo much against his own declared inclination, that in about three years he began to form refolutions of indulging his natural difpofition to his favourite art, having continually employed his leifure hours in defigning, and in the tudy of geometry, perfpective, architecture, and anatomy, but without any inftructors except books. He had afterwards an opportunity of improving himself in anatomy, by attending the lectures of Mr. Chefelden, befides entering himself at the Painter's Academy in Great Queen- ftreet, where he drew 10 years, and had the honour to be particularly noticed by Sir Godfrey Kneller, who diftinguished him by the name of the Young Lawyer. On June 13, 1714, his clerkship expired; and on March 26, 1715, he began painting as a profeffion, and fettled in the city. In the fame year Dr. Brook Taylor publifhed his " Linear Perfpective: or, a new Method of reprefenting juftly all Manner of Objects as they appear to the Eye, in all Situations. On this complete and univerfal theory our artist grounded his fubfequent practice, and it has been His grandfather, Abraham, who was first cousin (not brother) to Nathaniel, the celebrated phyfician, (fee Index to vol. xlii.) being a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal fervice, had, in return for his loffes, an honourable augmentation to his arms, as mentioned in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1772, p. 49. + The Highmores and Thornhills were connected by marriage; Edward, the uncle of Sir James, marrying Sufanna, daughter of Nathaniel Highmore, rector of Purfe Candell, Dorfetshire, fifter to the phylcian. gene |