[to The Editor Or The "specta.tor.1 Sir,—my Brother Went...
the death-trap at the Colenso River with the Irish Brigade under Fitzroy Hart. He was a Captain in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers,—he is so no longer. One bright moonlit night in......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator. "] Sin,—the Lines About...
your correspondent inquires in the Spectator of August 8th appear in Steinmetz's "History of the Jesuits," Vol. I., p. 177, as " an old distich," in the following form :- "......
[to Tile Editor Of The "speotator."]
SIR,—'.A016 , TOP is amp. Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq., corroborates your view that these words occur in Pineal.. Does he not write— "That an ancient Welsh poet, one Pyndar ap Tudor,......
[to The Editor Of The " Spectator."] Sir, —"*apititof D...
are the opening words of Pindar's first Olympian ode, and are referred to by Plato in the "Euthyde- mus,"—r8 of addp eipmrom is, riffs gOrl IliAepoc. It was an ancient Greek......
Unfulfilled Premonitions Of Death.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—With reference to the correspondence in your paper under the above heading, may I say a few words ? It seems to me that when so many......
Classical Quotations.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The words gotorov Fir OLT are taken from the first Olympic ode of Pindar, and were proverbial even at the time he wrote, although, of......
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