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Notes.

DIVISION OF INTELLECTUAL LABOUR.

But, if the advantages resulting from such a division of intellectual labour would be as great as I fondly hope, I feel sure that the energy and enterprise which caused you to give a tangible reality to your scheme for "Notes and Queries" would also enable you to overcome all difficulties, and answer all trifling objections.

R.M.

ON A PASSAGE IN LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST.

No one of the editors of Shakspeare appears to me to have given a satisfactory explanation of this passage. I therefore venture to offer the following.

Following these analogies, I suggest that the words "impatient to speak and not see" mean "impatient of speaking and not seeing," i.e., "dissatisfied with its function of speaking, preferring that of seeing."

This construction, at least, renders the passage intelligible.

TREATISE OF EQUIVOCATION.

Again I say, why not print the work?

J.M.

PARALLEL PASSAGES.

"When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough!"

In Ovid we find the following parallel:--

"... jacet ecce Tibullus, Vix manet e toto parva quod urna capit."

A second one appears in the pretended lines on the sepulchre of Scipio Africanus:--

"Cui non Europa, non obstitit Africa unquam, Respiceres hominem, quem brevis urna premit."

The same reflection we find in Ossian:--

"With three steps I measure thy grave, O thou, so great heretofore!"

It is very difficult indeed to determine in which of these passages the leading thought is expressed best, in which is to be found the most energy, the deepest feeling, the most touching shortness. I think one should prefer the passage of Shakspeare, because the direct mention of the corporal existence gives a magnificent liveliness to the picture, and because the very contrast of the space appears most lively by it; whereas, at the first reading of the other passages, it is not the human being, consisting of body and soul, which comes in our mind, but only the human spirit, of which we know already that it cannot be buried in the grave.

"Und von dem m?cht'gen Talbot, der die Welt Mit seinem Kriegeruhm f?llte, bleibet nichts Als eine Hand voll leichten Staubs."

Albert Cohn.

Berlin.

Minor

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