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第382章 INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF ALLUSIONS(6)

Phidias, Athens's greatest sculptor.A contemporary of Pericles (d.432 B.C.)Philips, John, best remembered by The Splendid Shilling, a good burlesque in imitation of Milton (1676-1708)Pilpay, the Indian Aesop.For the pedigree of the Pilpay literature, see Jacobs: Fables of Bidpai (1888), 641Pisistratus and Gelon, two able Grecian tyrants who ruled beneficially at Athens (541-527 B.C.), and at Syracuse (484-473B.C.), respectivelyPococurante, one who cares little and knows less: a dabblerPorridge Island, the slang name of an alley near St.Martin's-in-the-Fields, which was pulled down c.1830Politian, a distinguished poet and scholar in the time of the Italian Renaissance; professor of Greek and Latin at Florence (1454-94)Pompadour, Madame de, mistress of Louis XV., and virtually ruler of France from 1745 till her death in 1764Prior, Matthew, a wit and poet of the early eighteenth century whose lyrics were pronounced by Thackeray to be "amongst the easiest, the richest, the most charmingly humorous" in the English language,Pudding, Jack, a clown who swallows black puddings, etc.Cp.

Germ.Hans Worst, Fr.Jean-potagePulci, a Florentine poet (noted for his humorous Sonnets), and friend of Lorenzo de' Medici (1432-84)Pye--the immediate--Cibber--more remote--predecessor of Southey in the LaureateshipPyrgopolynices, a braggart character in Plautus's Miles GloriosusPyrrho, "the father of the Greek sceptics," contemporary with Aristotle.Like, Carneades (ib.), he denied that there was any criterion of certainty in the natural or the moral world QUEDLINBURGH, an old town in Saxony at the foot of the Harz, long a favourite residence of the mediaeval emperors RALPHO, the clerk and squire of Hudibras in Samuel Butler's satire of that nameRambouillet, the marchioness of this name was a wealthy patron of art and literature, and gathered round her a select salon of intellectual people, which degenerated into pedantry, was ridiculed, and dissolved at her death in 1665Ramus, Peter French, philosopher and humanist; attacked Aristotle and Scholasticism; massacred on the eve of St, Bartholomew, 1572Rehearsal, The, a burlesque based on Beaumont's Knight of the Burning Pestle, produced in 1671 by George Clifford, Duke of Buckingham, and Samuel ButlerRelapse, a comedy by Sir John Vanbrugh (d.1726), who also achieved some distinction as a soldier and an architectRichard Roe, nominal defendant in ejectment suits.CP.the "M.Or N." of the Prayer-BookRichelieu..Torcy, Richelieu and Mazarin were cardinals and statesmen in the seventeenth century, whose power exceeded that of the king; Colbert Louvis, and Torcy were influential and able men of the same time, but dependent upon the royal pleasureRobertson, William, wrote History of Scotland, History of the Reign of Charles V., etc.A friend of Hume's (1721-93)Rochelle and Auvergne, head-quarters of the HuguenotsRowe, Nicholas, dramatist and poet laureate (1715), editor of a monumental edition of ShakespeareRymer, Thomas, Historiographer-royal, and the compiler Of Foedera--a collection of historical documents concerning the relations of England and foreign powers (1639-1714)Ryswick, Peace Of, by this treaty (in 1697) Louis XIV.recognised William as King of England, and yielded certain towns to Spain and the EmpireSALVATOR ROSA, a Neapolitan author and artist (1615-73); "the initiator of romantic landscape,"Satirist...Age, small, libellous, and short-lived weekly papers in the year 1838Saxe, led the invading Austrian army into Bohemia, and afterward became a marshal of the French army, defeating the Duke of Cumberland at Fontenoy, 1745Scamander, a river of Troas, in Asia MinorScapin, the title-character of one of Moliere's comedies; a knavish valet who fools his masterScott, Michael, a twelfth-century sage who gained a large reputation as a wizard and magicianScriblerus Club a literary coterie, founded in 1714, which had only a short life, but produced Swift's GulliverScroggs, Chief-justice in 1678--the year of Titus Oates and the "Popish Plot." A worthy successor to JeffreysScudert, George de, French poet and novelist (1601-67)Scudery, Madeleine, a woman of good qualities, but as a novelist exceedingly tedious (1607-1701)Scythians, i.e.Russians.Scythia proper is the steppe-land between the Carpathian Mountains and the river Don in South-East RussiaSeged (see The Rambler, Nos.204, 205)Shafton, Sir Piercie (see Scott's The Monastery)Shaw, prize-fighter of immense strength and size, who enlisted in the Life Guards, and was killed at WaterlooSieyes, Abbe, one of the leaders of the Revolution, who retired on discovering that his colleagues were using him for their own end (d.1836)Simond, M.(the reference is to his Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain during the years 1810 and 1811, PP.

48-50)

Simonides, lived at Athens and Syracuse, and besides being a philosopher, was one of Greece's most famous lyric poets (556-467B.C.),Smalridge, George, one of Queen Anne's chaplains, and a good preacher; became Bishop of Bristol in 1714 (d.1719)Sobiesky, John, King of Poland, who defended his country against Russians and Turks.In 1683 he fought a Turkish army which was besieging Vienna, and so delivered that citySolis, Antonio de, dramatist and historian (Conquest of Mexico)(1610-86)

Somers, the counsel for the Seven Bishops, 1688.He filled many high legal offices, and from 1708 to 1710 was President of the CouncilSouthcote, Joanna, a Methodist "prophetess" who, suffering from religious mania, gave herself out to be the woman of Revelation ch.xii., and sold passports to heaven which she called "seals"(1750-1814)

Spectator (the reference is to No.7)

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