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wishes of all hearts to love them In turn , will prove to be nothing but one of the old
vulgar mistakes , ignorant of itself and others ; and the Tories will make a last brief show of triumph ; and government will become suddenly a dozen times
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[ From a poem on the subject by Giovanni de la Casa , afterwards Archbishop of Benevento . He
was one of the wits of Italy in the sixteenth century , and author of the famous treatise on good-breeding , entitled Galateo . The name of John in
Italian ( Giovanni ) shortens into Gian and Gianni , the sounds of which are nearly identical with those of our own John and Johnny ; a circumstance which helps to maintain the integrity of the banter in English .
The extreme popularity of this name in the first instance ( owing doubtless to a cause too reverend to be mentioned here ) rendered it at length the most
trivial of appellations , and degraded it into connexion with every species of familiar or despised object , —Jack-ass , Jack-Suddin g , Jack-boot ;—John-a-Jokes , and John-a-Stiles , &c .
S'io avessi maneo quindici o vent' anni , Messer Gandolfo , io mi sbattezzerei , Per non aver mai pift nome Giovanni : Perch * io non posso andar pe * fatti miei , ] N& partirmi di qui per ir si presso , Ch ' iQ nol senta chiamar da cinque o sei , &c .
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as radical as it ever was , with Lord Durham ( if he is sincere ) at the head of it , and without him , if he is not . Moving forward somehow is imperative , and will re-excite movement in the community , if thwarted .
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It would be easv to vindicate , in a counter set of verses , the dignity of a name associated with some of the greatest of men ; —but it is one of the privileges of a caricature to be allowed to
have its own way , and assume that it is literally true , precisely because it is not so . De la Casa ' s banter is so pleasant , that we wish we could have given an idea of it throughout ; but some of its allusions would fail in English , from difference of customs . We have
therefore omitted a few lines . The original is in terza rima 9 or what may be called the chain measure of Dante , of which the middle verse of one triplet rhymes with the first and third of the next ; a system , which does not suit English versification , nor indeed , to our ear , any other . ]
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152 A Deprecation of the Name of John .
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A DEPRECATION OF THE NAME OF JOHN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/8/
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