187.
col. 3.
A.J.H.
"_Men are but Children_," &c.--R.G. (Vol. ii., p. 22.) will find the
line about which he inquires in Dryden's _All for Love; or, The World
well Lost_, Act iv. Sc. 1.
Dolabella (_loq._):
"Men are but children of a larger growth,
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving too, and full as vain."
J.R.M.
King's College, London, July 12. 1850.
_Ventriloquism_ (Vol. ii., p. 88.).--Mr. SANSOM will find some curious
information touching the words [Hebrew: 'or], [Greek: eggastrimuthos],
&c., in Dr. Maitland's recent _Illustrations and Enquiries relating to
Mesmerism_, pp. 55. 81. The Lexicons of Drs. Lee and Gesenius may also
be consulted, under the word [Hebrew: 'or]. The former of these
lexicographers would rank the Pythian priestess with "our modern
conjurers."
C.H.
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.
_Cromwell's Estates--Magor_ (Vol. i., p. 277. 389.).--As the South Wales
line is now open as far as Chepstow, it may not be uninteresting to V.
to know, that it diverges from the coast between Chepstow and Newport,
in order to pass Bishopston and _Magor_, the last of which he rightly
placed in Monmouthshire.
SELEUCUS.
_Vincent Gookin_ (Vol. i., pp. 385. 473. 492.; Vol. ii. p. 44.) is
described in a _Narrative of the late Parliament_ (Cromwell's
Parliament, d. 1656), in the _Harleian Miscellany_, as
"One of the letters of land in Ireland, receiving three hundred
pounds per annum.
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