[It is with singular satisfaction we communicate the following most excellent versions of Lord BELGRAVE’s never-to-be-forgotten quotation; trusting, as we sincerely do, that so mark’d an attention to his Lordship’s scholarship may considerably console him under his melancholy failure as an orator.]
Lord BELGRAVE’s Quotation.
Τον δαπαμειβομενος προσεφη ποδας οκυς Αχιλλευς.
Translation by Lord Grosvenor.
His dam was Thetis, Æacus his Sire,
And for his paces he was nam’d Highflyer.
Another by Sir Joseph Mawbey.
Achilles, who was quite a man of whim,
And also had a swift foot, answer’d him——
Another by Sir Cecil Wray.
There was a man, Achilles he was call’d, }
He had two feet, they were so swift, he ball’d, }
Or otherwise, he mought, I say, have fall’d. }
Another by Lord Mornington, and Lord Graham.