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Someone in our List asked me about the meaning of "apud" I often add when referring to an author's quotes. To my surprise I couldn't find entries for it in the dictionaries I consulted and neither Wikipedia and other on-line tools in English were of help.Finally I tracked an example for its use ( as the one I had in mind) by Thomas Carlyle.
While perusing his other quotations ( Cf. John Bartlett (1820-1905) - Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919, On-Line) I selected two that come very close to VN's own elaborations on the "two eternities of darkness" and IPH, in SO and in Pale Fire:
1. One life,-a little gleam of time between two Eternities. (Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.)
2. His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.( Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828.) It was followed by a note:Browning: Bishop Bloughram's Apology, "The grand perhaps."
3. We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth." ( Voltaire. Foreign Review, 1829.)
In the note here appended comes the example I was originally after:
..."Truth, 't is supposed, may bear all lights; and one of those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself.-Shaftesbury: Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour, sect. 1.
'T was the saying of an ancient sage (Gorgias Leontinus, apud Aristotle's "Rhetoric," lib. iii. c. 18), that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.-Ibid. sect. 5.
I always thought that "apud", in English texts, was regularly used. "Sorry, my latinism is showing"...
Jansy
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While perusing his other quotations ( Cf. John Bartlett (1820-1905) - Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919, On-Line) I selected two that come very close to VN's own elaborations on the "two eternities of darkness" and IPH, in SO and in Pale Fire:
1. One life,-a little gleam of time between two Eternities. (Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.)
2. His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.( Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828.) It was followed by a note:Browning: Bishop Bloughram's Apology, "The grand perhaps."
3. We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth." ( Voltaire. Foreign Review, 1829.)
In the note here appended comes the example I was originally after:
..."Truth, 't is supposed, may bear all lights; and one of those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself.-Shaftesbury: Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour, sect. 1.
'T was the saying of an ancient sage (Gorgias Leontinus, apud Aristotle's "Rhetoric," lib. iii. c. 18), that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.-Ibid. sect. 5.
I always thought that "apud", in English texts, was regularly used. "Sorry, my latinism is showing"...
Jansy
.
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