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 368 NOTES AND QUERIES. [iiaix.Nov. e .i. INDEX OP WORDS (continued). at the same time useful to life," and where PAGE PAGE he records the fact that " oracles were omnibus. . opponent optative 366 n. . 349 349 n. remuneration result revenue. .263, 366 n. .. 349 303, 304 spoken in verses and the way of life pointed out." See also Sir Philip Sidney's 'Defence outcryes . . . 305 rheumatic . . 285 of Poesie ' for such ideas as this, " The outlaw. ., * . 325 robuckes .. 326 first light-giver to ignorance." Indebted- outrun . . . 325 Rousseau . . 242 ness to the classics for the word " legislator " outshone 325 Seafarin 326 is somewhat indicated by another sentence Pen.ioolums . 265 sentence . . 242 in Shelley's essay, " Poets, according to perdurable . 304 serene 242 n. the circumstances of the age and nation peremptory . 243 sinister. . .. 327 in which they appeared, were called, in the perfume persevere perseverance perspective . 327 . 285 . 285 . 285 smallpox 265 n., 327 sometimes. . 350 subdue. . . . 349 successor. . 304 earlier epochs of the world, legislators and prophets : a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters." Philistine . 285 sunlight . . .. 326 RUSSELL MARKLAND. portent . 304 surface . . . . 242 precise . . ' ' . . 285 perplexed 242 n. Telemachus .. 265 THE CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON. presence.. prestige . . pretext . . * . primrose proceeds . 326 . 242 . 349 . 305 265 n. tenfold . . thanksgiving theatre . . tombstone torchlight .. 325 . . 349 . . 283 .. 326 . . 325 The following inscription is written on a stone which has been lately removed from St. Paul's Churchyard, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and placed in the vestibule of St. profound 243 n. Toronto . . 305 Paul's Church in that city the oldest profiters projectile t . 349 . 349 Trafalgar triumphing .. 305 .. 326 church in Canada and it is thought would be of interest to your readers : prostrate '. . 326 7 protect .. Quandary Quebec . ., quinine quintessence 243 n. . 265 . 284 . 284 264 Unseen . . unstrung upright uproar upset .. 325 . . 325 .. 325 242, 305 .. 325 Sacred to the memory of Mr. John Samwell, Midshipman of H.M.S. Shannon, who died at the Naval Hospital on the 13th of June, 1813, aged 18 years, and William Stevens, Boatswain, aged 56 years. Those brave officers closed their career in consequence of desperate wounds received in Recapitulation recondite 366 n. . 243 Vagaries valise vertigo .. 265 . . 349 . . 327 the gallant action between their own ship and the American Frigate Chesapeake, on the 1st of June, 1813, which ended in the capture of the enemy's records .. ., refectory . 326 . 284 vocabullery . . 265 ship in 14 minutes. A LOVER OF HISTORY. remonstrate . 349 Wassail. . 350 remote. . 243 n. wayfarers 243 n., 326 W. MONCRIEFF, DRAMATIST.- Amongst W . F. P. STOCKLEY. the many letters addressed to George Daniels, editor of Onrnh Poland's Pla.vs. &r. DR. JOHNSON AND SHELLEY. The last sentence in Shelley's essay ' A Defence of Poetry ' is the famous line, " Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." With the difference of the widely qualifying word " unacknowledged " there is a remark- able similarity between this and a sentence in Dr. Johnson's ' Rasselas ' (chap, x., ' Imlac's History continued : A Disserta- tion on Poetry'), "He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind." ' Can Shelley have had this in his mind, consciously or unconsciously, when writing his well-known line ? The likeness is striking, even if both were echoing the sentiments of an earlier classic, as, for example, the central idea in such sentences from Horace's ' Art of Poetry ' as these, " Poets wish either to give profit or pleasure, to say L things both pleasant and I transcribe the following as it affords in- formation hitherto unpublished and not available in any other form : 3, Qfcidogan Street, Sloane Street, June 10, 1841. My Dear Daniels, As a brother author, and quondam (sic) brother Editor, I feel no hesitation in intruding on you sans ceremonie, but avail myself at once of the Freemasonry of our craft, without introduction. My object is get an introduction from you. You may possibly be aware that amongst other unkindnesses Fate has, for some time past, visited me with the crowning calamity of blind - ss. You know the Theatrical profession, and will not wonder that they have seized the oppor- tunity of rendering this most distressing of all mortal privations, still more distressing by taking every possible advantage of me, and rendering my theatrical, pursuits little better than a sine- cure. I feel so disgusted with their cold heart- ishness (sic), that I do not intend to place any further dependence in them.