The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 46 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 46 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.
Ulster Terrace                                  xi           401
York Terrace                  Nash              xiii         129
Sussex Place                  Nash              xiii         273
Cornwall Terrace              D. Burton         xiii         305
Clarence Terrace              D. Burton         xii           17
Hanover Terrace               Nash              x            313
Hanover Lodge                                   xiii          49
Grove House                   D. Burton         xiii          49
Marquess of Hertford’s Villa  D. Burton         xiii          81
Macclesfield Bridge           Morgan            xiii         351
East (now Gloucester) Gate                      xi           225
St. Katherine’s               Poynter           xi           273
Master’s Residence            Poynter           xi           289
Cumberland Terrace            Nash              xiii         401
Chester Terrace               Nash              xiii         193
Exterior of the Colosseum     D. Burton         xiii          65
Interior of the Colosseum     D. Burton         xiii          97

In this Series we have endeavoured to represent all the architectural beauties of the Park, and liable as are all of them to critical objection, they are extremely interesting for pictorial displays of the taste of this castle-building age.

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The King’s stag, &C.

(To the Editor of the Mirror.)

As several of your correspondents have lately interested themselves in the sign of “The Cat and Fiddle;” a few observations may not be thought irrelevant, on the probable origin of the “King’s Stag,” a description of which, under the signature, Ruris, appeared in the mirror, of Saturday, the 30th ult.  Its rise may, I conceive, with tolerable certainty, be traced to the stag said to have been taken in the Forest of Senlis, by Charles the Sixth, about whose neck was a collar, with the inscription, “Caesar hoc mihi donavit,” which induced a belief that the animal had lived from the reign of some one of the twelve Caesars.  This inscription also exists in the following form:—­

  “Tempore, quo Caesar Roma, dominatus in alta
  Aureolo jussit collum signare moniti;
  Ne depascentem quisquis me gramina laedat,
  Caesaris heu causa, periturae parcere vitae.”

which has been thus literally translated in nearly the same words quoted by Ruris—­

  “When Julius Caesar reigned king,
  About my neck he put this ring,
  That whosoever did me take,
  Should spare my life for Caesar’s sake.”

It thus appears that Julius Caesar is gratuitously introduced by the English paraphrast, nothing appearing in the original inscription to determine its application, or render it more probable, that the reference should be to Julius Caesar, than to Domitian; and the two first lines given by Ruris, have evidently been introduced by way of transferring the subject to our own country.

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