MISQUOTATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 12

MISQUOTATIONS.

. : Correspondents of tho "Observer 1 ? have lieen j'callirig .attention to" Sir Arthur Cori'aii 'of' Dryderij Gdjeridge'i'and Matthew Arnold m his recent volunle of ]lit^%-;is{ti^ms..;'.''Tho. qiie3tiioii of ■ iiiiKijub-': tatibri -fe an interesting oridi . IJrivaryiiig. acturaoy 'suggests;the labour,of urifhuiiliafity; jori 'the other' hand; quotation frorii lridiribry often irtars \ tho; quotation.; The Manchester classic, ! Do Quinqey, comiriitted many, sins' of .'this'. kind. . . Tho .Opium Eater's work 1 onthe Lake, ~is.:;.peppeixd ..with rather; stupid misquotations: frorii th'o poets whoiii; ho .lovdd {And £»mo of ,'frhbhi; asi lie'woiild have said himself,.' he> knew.''. Hero are a • few., Sxariiples: 1 wrotd':— -"Hor-oves as stars-of Twilight fair; ; Like' -Twilight's,' too, litfr diisky hiiir." ' :; ' Do Qumcey ; misquotos, making nonsense -of th'o imagery.:— ;; ;•: . ; •. :.;■//,' ' . ."Hor oyes.. like, stars 'of, twilight' fair,, '/ jiike< twilight;.. 'too ;• her dafk; brown liairi" Wordsworth:— 1 The Blessing of my later years l \YaS with me when a boy: . She-gave. me. e^es,-sho gave me ears, • And humble cares and dolicato fears; A -heart the fountain of sweot tears. And love, and thought, and joy;" . De Quuicoy's misquotation:— .--'"The .blessing of 'my - later '.years • .■'..'■'iW)iß:jTHth',:me:-iTh'en.'l w'as a -boy: ■ ''''Shd'gaye ine hopes, she. gave ind fears V. A heart tho fountain of Sweet .tears . And love and thought, and ]oy." In Do • Quincey's quotation . the famous Cnatterton lines: of are spoiled by the dull substitution of ono pronoun for for "his."--"Thd iriarvelloiis boy,' the', sleepless." soiil' that, perished iii hifi pride." - Ahd Shakespearo is named when De Quiricey had Byron in his mind," and even so tho quotation is inaccurate

"Ill* the exquisite language of Shakespearo's sonnets, 'To ■ write no . wrinkle with his antique .- hand.' " . .: ■ -1 Shakespeare wroto:— , "O carve not with thy. hours my love's fair . . brow, '• • . 1 ;. Nor draw no lines there with thine antiquo . P° h -" .;, ' . -, ■ " \ And Byron:— " Time 'writes,--no wrinkle oil thirie azriro » bl'OW."." Will any Manchester man defehti. these sacrilegious -' acts: on the part of tlib-greatest wnror iuanciiosrer mm produced?—-"Man-chester Guarilialii"