Star.
London, England, 1829-10-05 00:00:00

COINCIDENCES.

rtit,ot THE CORREsFONDENT OF A MORNING PAPER.
Nations ea jam dictum, quad non dictum sit p1y,..-Tettstas
Rummaging and turning over a mass of meaty mem, peels.
Salines, scrips, scraps, and mares of former literary. sandy wok.
idleness, rematch, and coliesity. lr haws resod mastered about a
number of coindiesces id authors which Ist the moment marked,
sod will now. with your leave, Month, for‘theasnesemeot of the
media: public," s• ridiculed by hit. Calaidgeft—thevigh, perhaps,
there never existed. to such an extent of surface whhma- depth,
any public or peersl reading to he compared with ours, since the
creation. of the wield. I shall follow thitiojnoetios of the thsoe's
wife. and stand nes on the order of my golog,,but las at-cmce to
work. One agreeable thing, however. I toosePteldso-oshat not
being sure how such Matters may be relished,i shall only give Yon
a taste of my colketion., and by no moms ventures, " bestow alt
my tediousness on your Worship "
The dear ideas, where I Sy, pursue... •
Rise in the grove, before the altar rise,
Stain all my soul, and wanton in my *Yea ;
I waste the atatin-lamp is denim thee,
Thy image steals between my fled and me, &e. Ste.
Pore* Skier
Angelo.—When I would pray and think. I think and pray •
• •••
To weed subjects : heaven lath my empty words;
Whilst my istentioo, heating not my tongue,
Anchors on babel. Heaven's in my mouth
As if I did but coil thew its name •
And in my heart the strong and swelling evil
Of my conception.—Massurefer Measure. Se. x. A. 11.
None but the brave deserve the fair.—.Daamnes Ode.
All who by the Virgin's side
Aspire to lie. and taste her charms.
Should nobly stem the roar of emit—Manama Trailthl/10
of the Death Song of Raver Les*** com-
posed in a dungeon filled with serpents.
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast
Of some great Admiral were but a wand.
Masao, 8.1.
Taller than a mast was his spear.—Literal transbtios from
the Gaelic Bas Fhradch, or the death of Preach.
See Lord Bacon's Works, vol. 1. p. 213.
Han.-111ethinks I see him now.
Hoa.—Where, my good Lord?
Hant—ln my mind's eye, Horatio.—Snaz.
Quem ego tam video anima, tram ea qua °cob centime»
Comm
D—me, if ever I call you Jack again.—Soaansto's Ries&
Swift writes thus to Dr. Sheridan—
" John (for it does not deserve the name of Jack) is
gone to his di miles off country sea for the summer."--Works,
vol. 12, Letter xxxviii.
Life's hut a walking shadow.—Maeheth
Our day. upon earth are a shadew.—.Ails e. 8. v. 9.
A Mali without a tear.—Mr. CANTIBILL'I Gerifinit.
See Lycopheon, where the image is still more terrible by the adz
dition—" A man without a tear or smile'
Shakpeare somewhere says, " He is poor that can count his
wealth, ' he. It is a Latin Proverb :—Pauperia ea numerate pe-
cu.. See note to Pebvtlims. p. 84.
" Goa bath given you one face, and you make yourselfanother
—you paint," atc —Handel to Opielio. A. 111. I.
Nigro pulses liostmenta accolorum pines, cum to Deus Atilt
fecerit.—Cyraum. Seats. 5. de brie.
Tansatcuta, in Petronios, wishing to pat about the wine after.
the feast, says, " Pisces mare oportet ;" and we say. fish
ought to swim three times—in water. in sauce, and in wine.
The form of expression is similar in Shaspeare and Cervantes,

viz. :--
0 While the grass grows"—the proverb la somewhat stale.
Hamer.
Dow Quimera to Sastoro—°, Tames veces va el cantariUo i la
fueote—y AO to digo mas."—Vol. ii. cap. zee. p. 73.
So Canning's

Versify of Gotdogen"
Has a prototype in
" Full fatal to the Romans gas
The Carthsginian
Hawwi-
Dbf; him I mean who gave them such
A devilish thump at Canna."
J. Gauss's St. Geometer Entered.
" Fallen from his high estate,
Fallen. fallen," Ste.
Dryden in hif. Ode perhaps had Rerelation in his mind:—
" 13ahy4is Is fallen. Is fallen," &c.—c. :hr. v. 6.
These are imitations, more or less ; but the following has not,
we believe, bees imitated with any success, and is, we should hope,
inimitable :
In 1662, says (laude—vol. I p. 210, Essay--Mathew Wren,
Lord Bishop of Ely, preached a sermon, entitled, "An aban•
Boning of Scottish Covenant;' the test was, Psalm zliv. In. He
gives two interpretations from the old and new translation,
" which," says he, " in eff►ct come both to one ;" and be adda,
" So that, by thegrace of Gon, we are sure of the text itself every
way." • •
• He had seen in Piccadilly. on one of the coaches. " The
Reeding Fly," which had puzzled his comprehension as mush as
the reading public. and be supposed them to mean moth about the
same thing.