tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post6031656576349507614..comments2024-03-27T19:11:37.620-04:00Comments on You Don't Say: Half of Samuel JohnsonJohn McIntyrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03559687583130468871noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-86785350459718419962009-09-07T11:55:59.015-04:002009-09-07T11:55:59.015-04:00Aix-la-Chapelle, not 'le'. Muphry's La...Aix-la-Chapelle, not 'le'. Muphry's Law strikes again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6051744883907551402.post-60506554215335092692009-08-09T13:15:43.623-04:002009-08-09T13:15:43.623-04:00It's not exactly Jowett's rhyme. It firs...It's not exactly Jowett's rhyme. It first appears, as far as is known, in the anonymous 1881 <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2735.html" rel="nofollow"><i>Masque of B-ll--l</i></a>, sometimes attributed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Charles_Beeching" rel="nofollow">H.C. Beeching</a>, and it exists in multiple versions, so it's hard to know what the <i>urtext</i> is. It's possible that Jowett himself had something to do with it, but there's no real evidence.<br /><br />I second the recommendation to read, or reread, Boswell.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com