"Who Wrote It?"

Cue (NZERS), Issue 6, 31 August 1944, Page 14

"Who Wrote It?"

1. «A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or ‘taste " not the Pieran spring.» —Algernon Swinburne, John Wesley, Robert Browning, Alexander Pope, David Garrick. 2. «Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower safety.»— H.G. . Wells, .Neville Chamberlain, William Shakespeare, Benjamin -Jowett, Geoffrey ? .... Chaucer. > . • .s. 3. «When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.» . —Percy Shelley, Professor Shelley, G.B. Shaw, Gen- < s p er al Montgomery, , Sir Walter Scott. 4. «When the Rudyards cease r from kipling, - And the Haggards ride no more.» —A.P. Herbert, James Kenneth Stephen, Arnold Bennett, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc. 5 5. « So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite ’em, And so proceed ad infinitum.» ‘ —Jonathan Swift, William Wordsworth, Bret Harte, Charles Dickens.

■ 6. « The King found her so different from her picture. . . . that .... he swore they had brought him a Flanders mare.» —Edward 1 Gibbon, Tobias Ge o r g e Smollett, Sydney Smith, Stanley Baldwin, Horace Walpole. 7 « The flowers that bloom in the spring, Tra la, < Have - nothing to do -with the case.* * —Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby, William Gilbert, Irving Ber-'l-in, Robert ■ - Bridges. 8. «The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man. The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was ' ’ that died.* —Anthony Trollope, Oliver Goldsmith, Ngaio Marsh, Thomas Paine. 9. « The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.» ? —William Cowper, G.K. Chesterton, :■ J-B-Priestly, Edmund Burke, : Lewis Carroll. 10. « There are few more, impressive sights in the world - than a Scotsman on the make.* . ?. J.M. Barrie, Harry Lauder, Sir Walt e r Scott, Ramsay Macdonald, Dow ni e v Stewart.

(1) Alexander Pope (1688-1744) from «Essay on Criticism »; (2) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from «King Henry IV—Part 1 (3) George Bernard Shaw (1856-?) from « Man and Superman », Act III; (4) James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892) from « Lapsus Calami », a Sonnet; (5) Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) from «On Poetry»; (6) Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) from « History of ngland », attributed to Henry VIII’s remarks on first seeing Anne wi 7 ves; , W William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) from «The Mikado » ; (8) Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) from « Elegy on the Death or a Mad Dog»; (9) Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) from « The • txzuF J? ngllsh Road»; (10) James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) from « What .Every Woman Knows », Act I.