KEY TO DIBDIN'S BIBLIOMANIA.
The following key to the characters in the Bibliomania (edit. 1811) has been collected with care, and will no doubt prove acceptable to some of the readers of "N. & Q.":
| Atticus | Richard Heber, Esq. | ||||
| Aurelius | George Chalmers, Esq. | ||||
| Alphonso | Horne Tooke? | ||||
| Archimedes | John Rennie, Esq. | ||||
| Bernardo | Joseph Haslewood, Esq. | ||||
| Boscardo | James Boswell, Esq.? | ||||
| Coriolanus | John Ph. Kemble, Esq. | ||||
| Crassus | Watson Taylor, Esq. | ||||
| Eumenius | J. D. Phelps, Esq. | ||||
| (1.) | Gonzalo | John Dent, Esq. | |||
| Hortensius | W. Bolland, Esq. | ||||
| Honorio | George Hibbert, Esq. | ||||
| Hippolyto | Samuel Weller Singer, Esq. | ||||
| Leontes | James Bindley, Esq. | ||||
| Lepidus | Dr. Gosset. | ||||
| Lysander | Rev. T. F. Dibdin. | ||||
| Lorenzo | Sir Mark Sykes. | ||||
| Lavinia's Husband | J. Harrison, Esq. | ||||
| Lisardo | R. Heathcote, Esq. | ||||
| Licius | Francis Freeling, Esq. | ||||
| Marcellus | Edmond Malone, Esq. | ||||
| Mustapha | W. Gardiner of Pall Mall. | ||||
| Menander | Tom. Warton. | ||||
| Malvolio | Payne Knight or Townley? | ||||
| Menalcas | Rev. Henry Drury. | ||||
| Mercurii (III.) | Mr. Henry Foss, Mr. Triphook, and Mr. Griffiths. | ||||
| Meliadus | R. Lang, Esq. | ||||
| Nicas | G. Shepherd, Esq. | ||||
| Narcottus | Rev. J. Jones. | ||||
| Orlando | Michael Woodhull, Esq. | ||||
| Prospero | Francis Douce, Esq. | ||||
| Philemon | J. Barwise, Esq. | ||||
| (2.) | Phormio | Rev. H. Vernon. | |||
| Portius | Mr. John Cuthill. | ||||
| Palmeria | Robert Southey, Esq. | ||||
| Philelphus | Geo. Henry Freeling, Esq. | ||||
| Palermo | John North, Esq. | ||||
| Pontevallo | Duke of Bridgewater? | ||||
| Quisquilius | George Baker, Esq. | ||||
| Rinaldo | J. Edwards, Esq. | ||||
| Rosicrusius | Rev. T. F. Dibdin. | ||||
| Sir Tristram | Walter Scott, Esq. | ||||
| Sycorax | Joseph Ritson. | ||||
| Ulpian | Edw. Vernon Utterson, Esq. | ||||
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| (2.) | —— | ||||
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| Right-hand neighbor | Mr. George Nicol. | ||||
| Left-hand ditto | Mr. R. H. Evans. | ||||
| Opposite ditto | Mr. Thomas Payne. | ||||
| Page 249. | |||||
| Literary friend | Sir Henry Ellis. | ||||
W. P.
PARALLEL PASSAGES.[[1]]
1. "In a drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy Branches ne'er remember
Their green felicity," &c.—Keats.
"What would be the heart of an old weather-beaten hollow stump, if the leaves and blossoms of its youth were suddenly to spring up out of the mould around it, and to remind it how bright and blissful summer was in the years of its prime?"—Hare's Guesses at Truth, 1st series, p. 244.
2. "Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,
Stars that on earth's firmament do shine."
Longfellow, Flowers.
"And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green."
Hood, Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, xxxvi.
[And see the converse thought,—
"Stars are the daisies that begem
The blue fields of the sky."
D. M. Moir, quoted in Dubl. Univ. Mag., Oct. 1852.]
3. "But she is vanish'd to her shady home
Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair."
Hood, Hero and Leander, cxvi.
"Within the midnight of her hair,
Half-hidden in its deepest deeps," &c.
Barry Cornwall, The Pearl Wearer.
"But, rising up,
Robed in the long night of her deep hair, so
To the open window moved."
Tennyson, Princess, p. 89.
4. "He who for love hath undergone
The worst that can befall,
Is happier thousandfold than one
Who never loved at all."
M. Milnes, To Myrzha, on returning.
"I hold it true, whate'er befall,
I feel it when I sorrow most,—
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
5. Boileau, speaking of himself, when set in his youth to study the law, says that his family—
"... Palit, et vit en frémissant
Dans la poudre du greffe un poëte naissant."
While Pope, in his Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, speaks of—
"Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,
Who pens a stanza when he should engross."
Harry Leroy Temple.
P.S.—At p. 123. of Vol. vi. are inserted some other parallels, noted by me in the course of my reading. For one of these so inserted, that relating
to Sylla, I was taken to task (see Vol. vi., p. 208.) by P. C. S. S. Now, the parallel between the two passages ("Parallel, resemblance, conformity continued through many particulars, likeness," Johnson's Dictionary) is this: Both verses endeavour to picture the mingled red and white of the "human face divine" (one satirically, the other eulogistically), by comparing their combined effect to that of the red hue of fruit seen through a partially superfused white medium—meal over mulberries, cream over strawberries. If there is not sufficient "resemblance" or "likeness" in the two (in the opinion of P. C. S. S.) to justify me in placing them alongside of one another (παράλληλα), I really cannot help it.
I have now ascertained that the words
"Sylla's a mulberry sprinkled with meal"
are to be found in Langhorne's Plutarch, as a translation of the original Greek quoted by P. C. S. S.
Footnote 1:[(return)]
Continued from Vol. iv., p. 435.; Vol. vi., p. 123.