O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT. Let not that ugly Skeleton appear! Sure Destiny mistakes; this Death's not mine! CHAPTER CLXXIV.-p. 48. DRYDEN. THE DOCTOR INDULGES IN THE WAY OF FANTASTIC AND TYPICAL SPECULATION ON HIS OWN NAME, AND ON THE POWERS OF THE LETTER D., WHETHER AS REGARDS DEGREES AND DISTINCTIONS, GODS AND DEMIGODS, PRINCES AND KINGS, PHILOSOPHERS, GENERALS OR TRAVELLERS. My mouth's no dictionary; it only serves as the needful interpreter of my heart.-QUARLES. CHAPTER CLXXV.-p. 56. THE DOCTOR FOLLOWS UP HIS MEDITATIONS ON THE LETTER D. AND EXPECTS THAT THE READER WILL BE CONVINCED THAT IT IS A DYNAMIC LETTER, AND THAT THE HEBREWS DID NOT WITHOUT REASON CALL IT DALETH-THE DOOR-AS THOUGH IT WERE THE DOOR OF SPEECH.-THE MYSTIC TRIANGLE. More authority dear boy, name more; and sweet my child let them be men of good repute and carriage. LOVE'S LABOUR LOST. CHAPTER CLXXVI.-p. 66. THE DOCTOR DISCOVERS THE ANTIQUITY OF THE NAME OF DOVE FROM PERUSING JACOB BRYANT'S ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY.-CHRISTOPHER AND FER DINAND COLUMBUS. SOMETHING ABOUT PIGEON PIE, AND THE REASON WHY THE DOCTOR WAS IN CLINED TO THINK FAVOURABLY OF THE SAMARI TANS. An I take the humour of a thing once, I am like your tailor's needle; I go through. - BEN JONSON. CHAPTER CLXXVII.-p. 73. SOMETHING ON THE SCIENCE AND MYSTERY OF NUM BERS WHICH IS NOT ACCORDING ΤΟ COCKER.REVERIES OF JEAN D'ESPAGNE, MINISTER OF THE FRENCH-REFORMED CHURCH IN WESTMINSTER, AND OF MR. JOHN BELLAMY. A PITHY REMARK OF FULLER'S AND AN EXTRACT FROM HIS PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, TO RECREATE THE READER. None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd LOVE'S LABOUR LOST. CHAPTER CLXXVIII.-p. 85. THE MYSTERY OF NUMBERS PURSUED, AND CERTAIN CALCULATIONS GIVEN WHICH MAY REMIND THE READER OF OTHER CALCULATIONS EQUALLY CORRECT ANAGRAMMATIZING OF NAMES, AND THE DOCTOR'S SUCCESS THEREIN. "There is no efficacy in numbers, said the wiser Philosophers; and very truly," saith Bishop Hacket in repeating this sentence; but he continues,-" some numbers are apt to enforce a reverent esteem towards them, by considering miraculous occurrences which fell out in holy Scripture on such and such a number.-Non potest fortuitò fieri, quod tam sæpe fit, says Maldonatus whom I never find superstitious in this matter. It falls out too often to be called contingent; and the oftener it falls out, the more to be attended." |