“But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her instrumental throat, that it might make mankind think miracles had not ceased.”—Walton, “Angler.”
“Abandoned to despair she sings
Her sorrows through the night; and on the bough
Sole sitting, still at every dying fall,
Takes up again her lamentable strain.”
—Thomson, “Seasons.”
MISQUOTATION
The inscription on the tomb of Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral, closes with the notice to the reader, “Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.” In Murray’s “Hand Book of London” is a blunder of too frequent recurrence elsewhere, the substitution of quæris for requiris.
Bishop Berkeley wrote, “Westward the course of empire takes its way.” In the epigraph to Bancroft’s “History of the United States” it is “the star of empire,” a change that is frequently repeated.
In Measure for Measure the Duke Yincentio says,—