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LITERARY GLEANINGS.

Na XLIV.

the subject, that, in 1784, a wanr was made at Bootle's
of twenty to one that they were to he found in that iniMit-
able poem. Dovicrt was referred to as the arbiter, when
I he ridiculed the idea of consulting him on the subject, say-
ing, " Every fool knows they are is Hudibras." °zonal
SELWYN, who was present, said to DOIDPELT, " Pray,
Sir, will you be good enough, then, to inform an old fool,
who is, at the same time, your wise worship's very humble
servant, in what canto they are to be found ?" Dodaley
took down the volume, but he could not find the passage;
the next day came with no better meccas, and the sage
bibliopole was obliged to confess, " that a man might be
ignorant of the author of this well-known couplet, without
being absolutely a fool."
Butler has, indeed, two or three passages somewhat
similar ; the one that conies nearest is the following in
fludibras, book iii. canto iii. verse 243,
" For thou that Sr, ma fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain."
The fact, however, is, that the couplet, thus erroneously
ascribed to the author of Hudibras, occurs in a small vo-
lume of miscellaneous Poems, by Sir Jour; MINNes,
written in the reign of CHA rt.rs THE Sccown, which !in
now become extremely scarce. The original of the couplet
may, however, be traced to much higher authority, even
to DEXCHITHEN es, who has the following expression:—

Lt Courctnawcsa.—Among the litetsry pecu-
liarities of the present age, there is nothing more con.
temptible than the zeal which some persons discover in
detecting a similarity of sentiment between two authors,
and charging the latest with direct and wilful plagiarism.
The fact is, that, in many eases, the Imitation is uncon-
scious and stokannitional ; and that the individual, accused
sd appropriatiag to 'tunes:lf the labours of others, bas only
written " what oft was thought, but ne'er so well ex-
pressed." In such eases, the phrase literary coincidence is
more proper than the epithet /dig/orient.
It is remarkable, too, on the other hand, that many lines
of our poem, which have become popular quotations, and
familiar in out mouths as bosteehold gods, arc either direct
plagiarisms, or ascribed erroneously. A few instances will
illustrate those remarks; and, first, of literary coinci-
deheeli.
In the tragedy of King Lear, there is a /Image which
bears a strong resemblance to one in Lucretius • yet no one
will accuse oat- immortal bard of having pilfered from the
Roman philosopher, except, perhaps, at second-haml. The
two passages will exhibit the coincidence:—
" "'vitiates locum lorabri (omelet, et Imam en,
rui tam= in vitt restet unnerve roalbruto."—Lttcarms.
" Thou must be patient: we came esr:ng hithee:
Thou know'st, the brat time that We smell die air,
We wattle and cry-
Irby+ we are born, we erg that we are come
'fo this great stage of fools."--Stiatartsat.
While on the subject of Shaimpeare, it may be men-
tioned, that the hacknizd quotation, from our great poet,

" Arlie • Move" asi =lair parw;rits,4

- - •
of which the English lines are almost a literal translation.
THE DYING DAUGHTER TO HER MOTHER.
Mother ! when these unsteady lines
Thy lone averted eyes shall sec,
Thi• hand that writes. this heart that pines,
Will cold, quite cold, and tranquil be.
That guilty child so long disowned
Can then, bleicthought I no more offend ;
And, shouldst th6it deem my crimes atoned,
0 deign oiy orphan to befriend t

That nrphan.

who with trembling head

'• We ne'er shall look upon his like spin,"
appears :o be almost a literal tranCatioti of the

• •
" Qrsxdo odium intruieng parent 7"
of Home, which, if Shakapcare did not undentitod in
the original. he might have horrowed through an triglich
version.
Admitting that the foregoing examples may be classed
as mere literary coincidence', the tame apology can acarczly
be allowed for the following. The beautiful line with
which GiIAY'S Elegy commences—

" TLs curfew tolls the kneU of parting day,"
is obviously from a parrage in DANTE, which thus stands
in Mr. Caty's translation:—

" And pilfrim, newly on 1-,is road, •ith love,
'brine, dire bear the vesper bell from far,
That saes to mourn fur the expiring day."
Hefore quitting GRAY, it is worthy of rustic* that his
line,
" And leave the world to darkness and to me,"

is t.) be found in the BEGGAI.I Petition, where we have,

" And lessen the world to wrdelteghtrer and me,"
which Gray had very evidently parodied.
Every reader of English poetry recollects the beautiful
yet simple.aspeeseiees of Gou saauxn, in hie " Edwin and
Angelina, .
" And sears began meow."
Goldsmith, however, was not the grit to use it. It
wears in Dryden's " Alexander's Feast," and In the " Es-
say on Criticism" of Pope ; and, last of all, it is found in
Chatterton's poem, entitled, " The Death of Sir Charles
Bawdin." This, and similar instances of plagiarism on
the part of Cbatterton, are among the strongest proofs of
the spuriousness of " Rowley's Poems," which must how-
ever be regarded as one of the noblest monuments of the
genius of modern times.
The following line in " Port's Eloise to Ahelard,"
" I Imes not yet forgot myself to stone,"
is evidently borrowed from a similar expres4on of Micron,
" Forges thyself to marble."

BLata, in his " Grave,' has favoured us with numerous
instances of these " literary coincidences," if they are en-
titled to that indulgence, but it is to be feared that they
are not merely set-Meats!. Among the number, the fol-
lowing will be recognised u having its prototype in Pope's
" Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady."
•• Sutler, like lamps in sepulchres. your ships
ErJ.ghtens but yourselves.
" Dun light+ of ::fe, that burn a lensed' of yssni,
Useless, unseen. as lamps in sepakhrts."—Pots.
Of popular quotations, the authors of which are not
generally known, or which are not correctly appropriated,
they. a-e numerous instances. The first one we shall men-
tioa is the line,

" 1/1 SryZler., cmpitier sitars Charylehm."
There is scarcely any quotation more common than this;
and dew, who use it, tor the most part, ascribe it to Vie-
GI: or Oyi, or some one of the classical writers. The
fact, however, is, that the line in question is to be found
15 the "Alexandria' of Paul/ Gacvrtra, a French
poet, of the thirteenth century, whose works were printed
at Lyons in 1438. It forms part of a passage. in which
the poet addresses Darius, when, in his flight from Alex-
ander, he falls into the power of Bolus. Consequently,
the line, in the original,

" Icsidis in Bcyilatn," &c.
Another Latin quotation, by no means uncommon, and
genersiiy ascribed to Horace, is

" Soma! tneanivion =Des."

It forms part of a verse, however, in an Eelozne of M AW.
ILAN'ar an Italian poet, "De Honest° Amore." 'rhe
whale is as follows:

" fd eetlUMUSltinaluus, sew! iisinsit inns (Met S."
MANITANUI Wall, as the name ill3pOrll, a Dative of kl•w-
ruA, anal flourished during the fifteenth century. His
works wrre first published at Paris, in three folio volumes,
El
Tile following line—

" Queen Deus Tub perdees pike deimentat.-
iv. perhaps, al frequently quoted as tuber of the preced-
ing, and, no doubt, is commonly considered to belong to
one of the classical salters of Home • but it is no more
than a literal version of a Greek iambic. in one of the
'TlT:cents of Euripides; and there is 40 classical authority
dement°. as here used.
to Engiish popular quotations. That beautiful
' Pleasures of Hope,-
Lilt sagel.viaita, few and far between."

almost literally from Blair's " Gra►e" whom
" its ti• Us.
r thou Vegeta. abort tad fur below 4."

Review of the " Pleasures of Hops," this due
highly praised for its originahlis.
;Ws lines—.
" Ilan wants but little he,, beNiw,
Not wash that LW, wig,"
from Tor its, who has in his " Night Thoughts,"—
' Man finis k littlr. no, that Mat knit "

alu quotations have more engaged thr pens of
the following:—

" For he that Sabot and rant away
Will live to fight another day."
it. almost universally supposed to form a pert
• ; and ea confident have even scholars been on

To tt.ee will give my dying prayer :--
Cane. thou my dying prayer witlmand.
And from my child withhold thy care

O mist the veil which bides her cheek,
Nor start her mother', tare to see,
But let her look thy love bespeak,—
For once that face was dear to thee.
•thlne on,—and thnu'lt perchance forget
The long, the mournful lapse of years,
Thy coorb with tears of anguish wet,
And e'en the guilt Which caused:those tears.
Thy love Memel call to mind,
And all thy past disdain forget,—
Tisch keen reproach, each frown unkind,
That crushed my hopes wtien last we met.
But when I saw that angry brow,
Both health and youth were still my own :
O mother ! cooldc thou see me now,
Thou would not have the heart to frown.
Bat see I my orphan's cheek displays
both youth, and health's carnation lies,
Such as on mine in tinnier days
So fondly charmed thy partial eyes.
Orer "*er her bloom a reil now draws,
Chief her loved parent's pangs to see;
And when thou think'st upon the cause,
That paleness will have charms fur thee
And thou wilt fondly press that cheek,
Bid happiness its bloom restore,
And thus in tenderest accents speak,
" Sweet orphan, thou aluilt mourn no more."
Dot wilt thou thus indulgent be?
0 ! am I not by hope begui:ed ?
The long, long anger shown to me.
Say, will it not pursue my child ?
And must she suffer for my crime ?
Ali ! no ;—forbtd it, gracious Heaven !
And grant, ()grant I in thy good time,
That she be loved, and I forgiven
Poems by Mrs- 00a.

SILL TRADI..—IL gives us much pleasure to notice the
introduction of a new branch of manufacture into Scot-
land. The silk manufacturers of this country have hither..
to had to purchase all their silk yarn in • prepared state
from Macclesfield and other places in England. An enter-
prising Company having taken a portion of the handsome
factory, recently erected by Mr. Campbell, in John-street,
Bridgeton, the preparation of silk leas commenced. One
of the flats is already fitted up with machinery, and
nnother flat is fitting up. The machinery is driven by a
thirty-two horse power engine. There are nearly lee
persons employed in the throwing, winding, spinning of
silk, and all the other preparations necessary to make it
ready for the silk weaver. An experienced manager, from
Macclesfield, is engaged to teach the learners. They are
all hound for three years. The work is very light and
i healthy. There are a pumbet of very young girls en-
' gaged at it. There are some other factories putting up
for the AMC manufacture in this neighbourhood; and ft
promises to give employment to numbers, and do much
good to this part of the country.—Gterrow Chronicle.
RoM•s CATHOLIC HOLID•TII.—The numerous holy-
days reseribed by the Catholic Church have at all times
been considered as giving a vital advantage to the manu-
facturers of this country, there being 110 impediment to
success in manufacturing establishments more injurious
than the interruption of labour Ly holydays. Capital ex-
pended in buildings and machinery must evidently be
productive, in proportion to the quantity of work produced.
if, therefore, instead of 32 Sundays, and two or three, or at
most four, holydays in the course of the year, we had, as in
Catholic countries, 40 or 50 holydays, on which machinery
must be suffered to remain idle, it would be tan-
tamount to an increase of capital proportioned to the
period of inactivity. The manufacturer who produces
the largest quantity evidently works his capital to
the greatest advantage ; and hence, in every establish-
went, it is a first principle that there should be the least
possible suspension or loss of time in the working of ma-
chinery. 1: is well known, that in every attempt to estab-
lish machinery on the Continent, one of the greatest
ob-
stades has been the frequent suspension of labour, by
reason of the numerous holydays sanctioned by the Catholic
church. This is said to have operated in a remarkable
manner, on the establishments for spinning cotton at Bar-
celona and Lisbon, more than thirty years ago. We have
reason to know that the inconvenience is severely felt at the
present time, in the manufactories that have -risen up in
different parts of the Continent of Europe. With machi-
nery constructed in England, or by English mechanics, it
is hitherto found impossible to compete, either in quality
or quantity—from the same quality of raw material—with
the spinning machine of this etuntty. For this there may
be various reaeons; but the frequent interruptions occa-
sioned by holydays is ascribed, by English superintendents
of foreign t stablishmen ts, as cow.tucing more than any other
cause to retard the manufacture. _

The Paris ripen contain the following account of the
ravages of a wild and &operate wolf:—The arrondissement
of Tonnerre, which last year suffered so much from a wolf,
has lately been subject to a similar calamity in a more
cruel degree. A furious wo:f has carried desolation into
the communes of Argenteuil. Pasilly, Seery, and Villers-
les-hauts: fifteen persona have been seriously wounded by
the animal, four have died, and little hopes are entertained
of the remainder. Terror was now at its height, and up-
wards of three hundred persons were assembled under the
order, of the Marquis of Louvois and Tanlay, to go in
pursuit of the dangerous brut; when it was learnt that he
hail fallen by the hands of two brave men, armed with a
stick and • hay-fork. They were two brothers, named
Saillot, labourers of Verdonnet, who thus courageously
encountered a certain peril, to render their country an im-
portant service. This wolf was a female of the ordinary
species. lie used to dart at her victim's face, and never
let go till she had stripped the head of every particle of
flesh. It was in this shocking state that the bodies of
those who were killed were found ; and it is also thus that
some unhappy beings have to linger a few hours, till the
'teeth they call for relieves them.
Some emissaries of the Ranter', or Brysnites, are en-
gaged on the borders of Dorset and Devon, in introducing
their doctrine among the cottages of the lower class. They
appear to readily obtain the best bed and fare the homely
roofs affurd.

e have been informcil that the greater number of
journeymen coachmakers who have remained out of em-
ployment for several weeks, have returre 1 to their respec-
tive establishments, without requiring any concession from
their masters. We sincerely bone that our information
may prove correct —Dalin raper.

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flErnv
No. I.
ABSTRACT of as NET PRODUCE of the ItZTENUR of GREAT BRITAIN, io Thu Yowl eoded lOth Oct. 183 t, and
O. LOW distinguishing the Quarters.

'Qualm ended

h Jos
___ •

dth July,
Mt

Customs • -
Excise . . .
Stamps .
Taxes, includ.
MR Armen of
Property Ts:
Pon Office .
Miscellaneous

Z. I
4,1463.146
8.847,132
1,686,810
1514,084
361.000
84,817

10th Oct:
1824.

64.071

Total Ordinary
Revenue -
Repayment by
Austria - -

12.668,398
766,067

110,113,174
1'1.733,333

jits9s,te7

11,919,490

Applied esCon-
solidated Fund

11,017,48 i

To Pa- kit.
chequer 801,
charged on the
Ann. Duties .
Applied as part
of the Ways
and Means of
the Year - •

29(1,084

192,437

970,13 i

Total . .

1,867

314-1,t71
7.113,017
1,75V,680

1,843,398

I 11,9E0,480 113,049,050

Ica
ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of the REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN, in the Years and Quartz, ended the 10th
October, 102 t, and the 10th October, 1825: showing the Increase or Decrease on each Head thereof.

TEARS ISIDRO OCT• 10. increue. Decrease I QUARTERS IND.OOT. toi t Inertias. Dorms.
1824. 1825. • 1824. 1825.
££•XXi £ £ £ - £
Guiana' - . . 10,2711,243 14,306,152 4,027,909 ,' 3.240,272 5,2713.455 2,038,183
Stoic,' - . . 24.319,852 21.620,714 . - 2,699,138 7,113,017 5,154,858 - - - 1,958,159
Stamps - 6,873.874 6.997,016 323.142 1.759,880 1.823,519 63,839 I
Poet t/fEce 1.435.000 1.64/1,000 62.000 376.600 379,000 4,090
Taxes - - . . 4,880,106 4.1475,340 95.234 481,968 474.451 . - - 7,535
klucellaneous - - 309.017 363,565 51,548 79,113 76,379 - - -- 2.734
47,900,092 49,763,787 4,562,833 2,699.138 : 13,049,050 13,186,644 2,108,022 1,968,428
Deduct Decrease - - - 2,690,138 Deduct Decrease - 1,968,428
Increase on the Year . - 1.863.895 :, Increase on the Quarter 137.594 _ _

Quarters ended

sth April,
1825.

E.
2,277,216
6.676.448
1,714,812

iih July,
11825.

Z.
3.936,641
4,249.&15
1,822,646

10th Oct.
11126.

2,836,463
869,000
80,926

1,0(4.633

112,493,521

No. 111.
INCOME and CAA ROE on the CONSOLIDATED FUND, in the Quarters ended the 10th of October, 1824 and 1825.

Quarto. ended Oct.

1825.

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10.278343 2,814,841
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6,673,874 1,636,032
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1,439,006 366,000
309,0171 126,571
47,900,0021 13,571,062
2,600,000 i
60,400,0011 13,671,066
47,080417 13,671,012
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M 4400,0112 13,671,066