Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-01-15
ERRORS OF
Constantly Made In Citing Verses
and Famous Expressions by Those who
SHOULD Know Better.

and Famous Expressions by Those who
SHOULD Know Better.
JuuGry Agr.ir.
Evidence Of what may be called the in
,cllectual deprayity OF human nature is
found in the tendency to follow errors OF
citation. even from well-known authors.
Some L happens to bluuder into q
~misquotation, and the incorrect version is
IKE, in O little while, to drive out the
correct one lson the minds of many per
sons who ought to know better. 4 few
instances o. misguutatiOn occur 10 me,
which I have myself noted, and the list
might, no doubt. be easily heightened.
The first that comes TO mind IS Millions
line al the conclusion OF the LyCidas,
.'IG-uCyrow 20 fresh woods and pastures
anew where fields is commonly substitU.
ed for woods.
80 sligbtu change as that ola proposition
nuts q somewhat different meaning into
Ben Johnson memorial verse. He was
not CT an age, hat tOr MI time" Here tor
ia often made 10 replace Of in the first
clause.
We are a lsupp0sed TO know our Shake
>prarp, hut IN tlc. q good many persons
knowledge ia OF the secondhand sort thai
&p.S rot enable them to detect a miSquO.
tlt,ou. Wncu Mr.. Booth or Mr.. Irving
deliver the To be, or not to be- S~olilOquy
SOME who hear him speak Of the
Thousand natural shocks that llesl
'ts heir to- may be surprised
into GauC,ir- that the actor
is making q slip, the substitution Of ills
tor shocks being so common that the right
word sounds strangely. In speech and
! $50, ting how often mention Is made of the
"~nourue" whence no Traveller returns
/ Shakespeare wrote of the 'uudIscOyeIe
country, from whose bouru, 40 traveller re-
uurs." These quotations are from one o
! ihy best known plays, oitenest acted on
the muderu stage, and from the mes
, a..,k4eyrj ljucs ia a.. Again people cite
from The Merchant o! Venice The
Man tina. hath no music in his soul, -
where the text has in HIMSELF
John Norris, who, IN the latter hal
OF the Seventeenth century com
pared Ale 'Ioys rlps; exquisite and
strong" which soon took their flight t.
ANGELS visits. short ard bright" may
never haze written any thing else worth the
stealing. so j. seems rather cruel that he
should lose the credit OF his happies;
;,gught. Later Robert Blair helped him.
~.'s 90 Norris verse, altering bright e
Tar between" Il is probable, therefore,
. mat Campbell conveyed" from Blair rIth.
80 chan from the original writer. In like
u.auncr Pope made himself free with Dry.
,!rn's vcrae. From grave to light, from
/ alrasant 10 severe, " changing light into
",,y," aud pleasant toto "liyeiy;' and
With Pr!or's "Fine ny degrees and beauti
.rlIy less, " in this instance altering th'
srn-e a. well a. the words. But fine by
/ detect and GriicateIy weak is an unmis
/ taxable Imitation Oi Prior. No doubt the
sam- thought may occur to more
than one man, and since
human experience repeats itsel
r. I,ctious on lie are likely to resemble
each other. Gray wrote, "Whrre igno
rance is bliss MS hIly to he wise Prior
before him, made the proposition a unl
ver.al one when he asserted that Iron
isncrarCe orr comfort flows, the Onl!
wi,rchcJ are the wise; and centuries be
f8rr Prior, a uameless Jew had set !
dcun in his book that she that iDcreaseti
knowledge jncreaseth sorrow.'