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第380章 INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF ALLUSIONS(4)

Byron ridiculed his Triumphs of Temper and Triumphs of Music, and Southey said everything was good about him except his poetryHenriade, Voltaire's La Ligue, ou Henri le GrandHierocles, a neo-Platonic philosopher (c.450 A.D.), who after long labour collected a book of twenty-eight jests, a translation of which (Gentleman's Magazine, 1741) has been attributed to JohnsonHill, Aaron, playwright, stage-manager, and projector of bubble schemes (1685-1750).See Pope's Dunciad, ii.295 ff.

Hippocrene, "the fountain of the Muses, formed by the hoof of Pegasus"Holbach, Baron, a French "philosophe" who entertained at his hospitable board in Paris all the Encyclopaedia (q.v.) writers; a materialist, but a philanthropist (1723-89)Holofernes, the pedantic school-master in Love's Labour 's LastHome, John, a minister of the Scottish Church (1724-1808), whose tragedy of Douglas was produced in Edinburgh in 1756Hoole, John, a clerk in the India House, who worked at translations, e.g.of Tasso and Ariosto, and original literature in his spare hoursHotel of Rambouillet, the intellectual salon which centred round the Italian Marquise de R.(1588-1665), and degenerated into the pedantry which Moliere satirized in Les Preceiuses RidiculesHughes, John, a poet and essayist, who contributed frequently to the Tatler, and Guardian (1677-1720)Hume, Mr.Joseph, English politician, reformer, and philanthropist (1777-1855)Hurd, Richard, Bishop in succession of Lichfield, Coventry, and Worcester; edited in 1798 with fulsome praise the works of his fellow bishop Warburton of GloucesterHutchinson, Mrs., wife of Colonel Hutchinson, the governor of Nottingham Castle in the Civil War, whose Memoirs (published 1806) she wroteHutten, Ulrich von, German humanist and reformer (1488-1523)IMLAC (see Johnson's Rasselas, Ch.viii xii.)Ireland's Vortigern, a play represented by W.H.Ireland as Shakespeare's autograph; failed when Sheridan produced it in 1796, and afterwards admitted a forgeryIvimey, Mr., Baptist divine and historian of the early nineteenth century, who compiled a life of BunyanJANSENIAN CONTROVERSY, arose early in the seventeenth century over the Augustinian principle of the sovereign and the irresistible nature of divine grace, denied by the Jesuits.In connection with this controversy Pascal wrote his Provincial LettersJeanie Deans (see Scott's The Heart Of Midlothian)Jedwood justice; the little town of Jedburgh was prominent in border-warfare, and its justice was proverbially summary, the execution of the accused usually preceding his trialJonathan's and Garraway's, Coffee-houses in Cornhill and Exchange Alley respectively, specially resorted to by brokers and merchantsJortin, John, an eminent and scholarly divine, who wrote on the Truth, Christian Religion and on History (1698-1770)Julius, the second pope (1502-13) of that name, whose military zeal outran his priestly inclination.He fought against the Venetians, and the FrenchJustiza, M Mayor, "a magistrate appointed by King and the Cortes who acted as mediator between the King and the people." Philip II.abolished the office)KENRICK, William, a hack writer, who in the Monthly Review in 1765, attacked Johnson's Shakespeare with "a certain coarse smartness" (1725?-79)Kitcat Club, founded c.1700 by thirty-nine Hanoverian statesmen and authors on the basis of an earlier society (see Spectator No.9)LA BRUYERE, John de, tutor to the Duke of Burgundy and a member of the Academy; author of Characters after the manner of Theophrastus (1644~96)La Clos, author of Liaisons Dangereuses, a masterpiece of immorality (1741-1803)Lambert, Daniel, weighed 739 lbs., and measured 3 yds.4 ins.

round the waist (1770-1809)

Langton, Bennet, a classical scholar and contributor to The Idler.Entered Johnson's circle in 1752 (1737-1801)League of Cambray, the union in 1508 of Austria, France, Spain and the Papacy against VeniceLeague of Pilnitz, between Austria, Prussia, and others (1791)for the restoration of Louis XVI.

Lee, Nathaniel, a play-writer who helped Dryden in his Duke of Guise (1655-92)Leman Lake, Lake of GenevaLope de Vega, Spain's greatest, and the world's most prolific dramatist.Secretary to the Inquisition (1562-1635)Lunsford, a notorious bully and profligate; a specimen of the worst type of the royalist captains MACLEOD, Colonel (see Tour to the Hebrides, Sept.23)Mainwaring, Arthur, editor of the Medley, and Whig pamphleteer (1668-1712)Malbranche, Nicholas, tried to adopt and explain the philosophy of Descartes in the interests of theology (d.1715)Mallet, David, a literary adventurer who collaborated with Thomson in writing the masque Alfred in which the song "Rule Britannia" was produced (1703-65)Malone, Edmund, an eminent Shakesperian scholar, who also wrote a Life of Reynolds and a Life of Dryden (1741-1812)Manfred, King of the Two Sicilies who struggled for his birthright against three popes, who excommunicated him and gave his kingdom to Charles of Anjou, fighting against whom he fell in 1266Manichees, the sect founded by Mani (who declared himself to be the Paraclete) which held a blend of Magian, Buddhist, and Christian principlesManlius, the Roman hero who in B.C.390 saved Rome from the Gauls, and who was later put to death on a charge of treasonMarat, Jean Paul, a fanatical democrat whose one fixed idea was wholesale slaughter of the aristocracy; assassinated by Charlotte Corday (1743-93)Markland, Jeremiah a famous classical scholar and critic (1693-1776)

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