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Gentleman's Magazine 1851 part 1 p.13
by Gauden. See on that point Edinburgh Review, lxxi. p.7. See also ibid. lxxxvii. p.1-47. Mr. Todd also published a letter addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury on this subject, p.168. See also Hallam's Consitutional History of England, vol.ii. p.314, and a Letter to a Friend, by Mr. Grant Broughton, pp.92. Our last extract shall be as follows: "Todd came to one conclusion, Wordsworth to another, on the existing evidence. Wordsworth, after a painful examination of all the evidence, has decided. Hallam summarily disposes of it as no longer a question at all. Pearson never spoke without considering his reasons, and his words remain, 'None could pen it but himself.' See Churton's Life of Bishop Pearson, p.xliii. May we ask our readers Quae sit dubiae sententia menti? P.81. "The two Alexander Cunninghams."This is another story admitting much dubiety and scepticism. Every one knows that there was an Alexander Cunningham who edited Horace in 1721, the purpose of his edition being to attack Bentley, which he did with equal acuteness and abuse; his frontispiece being a figure of Truth forcing the mask off the face of Bentley and his followers, while she holds up a mirror to Bentley, who contemplates in it a very ugly visage of his own; his followers being still more hideous. Under the print is the following motto: Detrahit et pellem nitidus qua quisque per ora Ambulat, introrsum turpis. But who was this Alexander Cunningham has been long the question, and perhas "adhuc subjudice lis est," for there were two Cunninghams, both of the name Alexander, both lived at the same time, both travelling tutors, both eminent for their skill in chess, both scholars, both lived to an advanced age, and how they are to be distinguished no one has told. The reader may consult Chalmer's Life of Ruddiman, p.191; Irving's Lives of the Scottish Poets, i. p.161. Beloe, in his Anecdotes, ii. 400, says Alexander Cuningham (which?) died at the Hague, December, 1730. In a note on Ovid (Ep. ex Ponto) lib.ii. ep.iii. 2, ver.33. vol.iii. p.767, col.i. I perceive that Burman, the editor of Ovid, was well acquainted with the Cuningham who edited Horace, for he says, "Vetus et certissimus amicus Cuninghamius;" and again in his Val. Flaccus, ii. 7, 77. "Doctissimus et mihi longa amicitia conjunctissimus Alexander Cuninghamius;" as these passages have never been noticed, they may perhaps throw some light on the controversy, if it is not yet determined. Cuningham was much more successful, I may add, in finding fault with Bentley's conjectures, than in proposing his own. P.83. "The only person whose face was familiar to me was Dr. Tatham."Master of Lincoln college, Oxford, and author of "The Chart and Scale of Truth by which to find the Cause of Error." Bampton Lectures, 1790, 2 vols. On this work see Mackintoosh's Vindicae Gallicae, p.372; Encyclopaedia Britan. vol.x. p.214, 3rd. ed. and see a curious statement by Dr. Tatham on the disputed verse in St. John, i. 7, on the Three Witnesses; and see Porson's Letters on the subject to Arch. Travis in a vindication of the literary character of Porson by Crito Cantabrigiensis (Dr. Turton), pp.333, 359. I do not know who was the author of the following piece if badinage against the Doctor, which appeared in 1794. "Error Detected and Fiction Rebuked, in a letter to E. Tatham, D.D. so called, and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, on his Sermon, 1st ep. of St. John, iv. 1, which for its excellence was read in four parish workhouses in 1792, and published under the title of 'A Sermon Suitable to the Times, by T. Haddock, 12mo." p.95. "The Rev. Neville White."This correspondent of Southey's had, we believe,, the living of Tivetshall, in Norfolk, where he unfortunately met with death by his own hand. P.179. "Hayley has been worried, as schoolboys worry a cat: I am treating him as a man deserves to be treated who was in his time by popular election king of the English poets, who was moreover a gentleman and a scholar, and a most kind-hearted and generous man, in whose life there is something to blame, much to admire, and most of all to commiserate. My first introduction to Spanish literature |
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