with
the exact title and date.

CHARLES DEMAYNE.

[The following two works on dress appear in the _London Catalogue:--The
Whole Art of Dress_, by a Country Officer, 12mo. Lond. 1830; and _The
Art of Dress, or a Guide to the Toilette_, fcp. 8vo., Lond. 1839.]

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Replies.

"NAMBY-PAMBY," AND OTHER WORDS OF THE SAME FORM.

(Vol. viii., p. 318.)

The origin of the word _namby-pamby_ is explained in the following passage
of Johnson's _Life of Ambrose Philips_:

"The pieces that please best are those which from Pope and Pope's
adherents procured him the name of _namby-pamby_, the poems of short
lines, by which he paid his court to all ages and characters--from
Walpole, 'the steerer of the realm,' to Miss Pulteney in the nursery.
The numbers are smooth and sprightly, and the diction is seldom faulty.
They are not loaded with much thought, yet, if they had been written by
Addison, they would have had admirers. Little things are not valued but
when they are done by those who can do greater."

In the _Treatise on the Bathos_, the _infantine_ style is exclusively
exemplified by passages from Ambrose Philips:

"This [says Pope] is when a poet grows so very simple as to think and
talk like a child. I shall take my examples from the greatest master in
this way: hear how he fondles like a mere stammerer:

'Little charm of placid mien,
Miniature of Beauty's queen,
Hither, British Muse of mine,
Hither, all ye Grecian nine,
With the lovely Graces three,
And your pretty nursling see.
When the meadows next are seen,
Sweet enamel, white and green;
When again the lambkins play,
Pretty sportlings full of May,
Then the neck so white and round,
(Little neck with brilliants bound)
And thy gentleness of mind,
(Gentle from a gentle kind), &c.
Happy thrice, and thrice again,
Happiest he of happy men,' &c.

And the rest of those excellent lullabies of his composition."--C. xi.

These verses are stated by Warburton, in his note on the passage, to be
taken from a poem to {391} Miss Cuzzona. They are however in fact selected
from two poems addressed to daughters of Lord Carteret, and are put
together arbitrarily, out of the order in which they stand in the original
poems. There is a short poem by Philips in the same metre, addressed to