Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Lord Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" 493 Erection of Forts at Michnee and Pylos, by C. Forbes 495 Hoveden's Annals: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library," by James Graves 495 FOLK LORE:--Raven Superstition--African Folk Lore --Funeral Custom 496 Shakspeare Readings, No. VII. 496 MINOR NOTES:--Portrait of Luther--Randle Wilbraham --Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott--Crassus' Saying 498 QUERIES:-- Bees and the Sphynx atropos, by Sydney Smirke 499 "The Craftsman's Apology," by James Crossley 499 Palissy and Cardinal Wiseman 499 MINOR QUERIES:--Polidus--St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca--Meaning of "folowed"--Roman Catholic
BORKMAN.
Won't you sit down? There on the sofa.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
Yes, thank you; I need rest.
[She crosses to the right and seats herself in the furthest
forward corner of the sofa. BORKMAN stands beside the
table with his hands behind his back looking at her. A
short silence.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
It seems an endless time since we two met, Borkman, face to face.
BORKMAN.
[Gloomily.] It is a long, long time. And terrible things have
passed since then.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
A whole lifetime has passed--a wasted lifetime.
BORKMAN.
[Looking keenly at her.] Wasted!
ELLA RENTHEIM.
Yes, I say wasted--for both of us.
CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Lord Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" 493 Erection of Forts at Michnee and Pylos, by C. Forbes 495 Hoveden's Annals: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library," by James Graves 495 FOLK LORE:--Raven Superstition--African Folk Lore --Funeral Custom 496 Shakspeare Readings, No. VII. 496 MINOR NOTES:--Portrait of Luther--Randle Wilbraham --Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott--Crassus' Saying 498 QUERIES:-- Bees and the Sphynx atropos, by Sydney Smirke 499 "The Craftsman's Apology," by James Crossley 499 Palissy and Cardinal Wiseman 499 MINOR QUERIES:--Polidus--St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca--Meaning of "folowed"--Roman Catholic