Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-04-06
gA QUOTATIONS ~
~ Andrew London ,l...h
Andrew Lang. in London Post.

uncut 10 answer, just as tHSEe are
two sorts of difficulties in finding
names on a map, The obscure names
in the tiniest type are hard to dis.
cover, and so. as Dupin says in Edgar
Poe'S story, are the names in very
large type which sprawl across thou.
sands of leagues. So quotations
from obscure poets. good or bad, are
puzzles, and next TO these are very
popular quotations.
''Not to know me argues yourself I'M
known"
is commonly cited
Whom not to know argues yourself
unknown"
| cannot throw the first stone at
anybody who thinks that the line
comes from Shakespeare. for | thought
it was in Romeo and Juliet" Quot
ed with "whom" in place OF me" 1t
does sound like Shakespeare But 1t
is by the poet who wrote the equally
familiar line, occasionally misquoted
as Thick as thieves in Vallombrosa.
More In sorrow than in anger is so
familiar as scarcely TO be recognized
for quotation. Probably more
guesses will be wrong than right
once lost a sovereign on a general
offer that nobody would guess the
source of "Why do YOU make such
faces?" A very small boy won the
prize. Some persons may be baffled
by Que diable allait-il faire dams la
galere dun Ture?" It sounds easier
than it is. "A King of shreds and
patches" very often becomes "a
thing Of shreds and patches" We
must speak by the card" Is another
memory OF Its source and context as
in the case OF "a round unvarnished
tale" That learned novelist of
italy, D'Annunzio. quotes line OF
Guglielmo Shakespeare from "As You
Like It."
"Who ever lov'd that Iov'd not at first
sight?
Where both deliberate the love is
slight
Who ever loved that loved not at
first sight?"
is from "the slack Muse" as ne calls
her. OF Marlowe, "the dead shepherds
saw of might" In Hero and Leander."
D'Annunzio also quotes
And forget me for ]. can never
Be thine
Here j. looks like an endearing mi.
tial. as IL the speakers name were
Jones. He also quotes
"The Tree of knowledge has been
pluck'd all's known If the Tree OF
knowledge is plucked. who can hope
to pass? But the quotation is not
from Paradise Lost" as some might
ricklessly guess; it is from Giorgio
Byron. Guessing is Ill work 1t once
befell me to set
Us this the face that launched thou,
sand ships,
And burned the tOpless towers of
Illium?"
in an examination. No boy guessed
right, and Sir Lewis Morris was cred,
tied with Marlowe's mighty lines.
For
Like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind"
we almost always, and incura6iy,
say
Like baseless fabric of a vision
Leave not rack behind"
To what act of parliament does the
last line Of the quotation apply? This
question is recommended to examin-
Crs in modern history. Where does
Shakespeare say, apparently to his
caddy, Give me my iron?" Did
Mrs. Malaprop say. Comparisons are
odOrous," or "Caparisons don't be
come young woman" or have you
any proof that Mrs. Malaprop's maid
n name was Dogberry? One may al.
most defy mankind to say, without
book, from what play of Shakespeare
comes Il know trick worth two OF
that?" When Scott was made a
haronet the Ettrlck Shepherd made a
rather neat quotation
Il like not
Such grinning honor as Sir Walter
hath"
When Mr.. James Pawn was editor
~ the Cornhil Magazine | wanted, If
remember correctly. to write on
some subject which bored him. and
Cnoted-
The labor We delight in physics
Payn."
He told me that Sir Leslie Stephens
had made the same obvious remark
during one OF the long tramps which
he delighted in. but which acted on
Payn in the manner described by the
poet. neat quotation from THE
Lays of Ancient Rome" ("Virginus")
was made BY man with whom was