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Aridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes.

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A merry-andrew; a buffoon.

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PLEASANT Pleas"ant, n. Defn: A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

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Defn: The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.

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Defn: A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked.

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Defn: A personage in the old Italian comedy (derived from Spain) characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery; hence, a person of like characteristics; a buffoon.

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Defn: Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.

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Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.

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Etym: [L. vernaculi, pl., buffoons, jesters.]

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The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.

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zanni a buffoon, merry-andrew, orig.

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Defn: A merry-andrew; a buffoon.

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He was a spendthrift, and afterwards had a quarrel with Cromwell, who denounced him as an unbeliever, and even as a buffoon.

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And then the deputation passed again in its motley gear through the swarming streets of buffoons, through the avenue of scurrilities, to renew its hypocritical protestations before the throne of the Senator.

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We would say here, in order to explain the success of Croustillac, that at sea the hours seem very long; the slightest distractions are precious, and one is very glad to have always at one's beck and call a species of buffoon endowed with imperturbable good humor.

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if, in spite of my absurd situation, I experience a cruel mortification; how can I play the buffoon?"

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After this I would have thrown myself into the fire for you, and that for the sole pleasure of throwing myself into it, for I had nothing more to hope for from you; the time of my folly is past; I see too clearly into my heart not to recognize that I was a kind of mendicant buffoon; I can never have anything in common with a woman as beautiful and as young as you.

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In all kindness to Maga, we warn her, that, though the nature of this work precludes us from devoting space to the exposure, there may come a time when the public shall be themselves able to distinguish ribaldry from reasoning, and may require some better and higher qualifications in their critics of art, than the experience of a school-boy, and the capacities of a buffoon.

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_Clandestine Marriage._ "What is to be the wonder now?" asked Gomez Arias, as he observed his valet and confidant, Roque, approaching, with an unusual expression of gravity upon his countenance, such indeed as was seldom discernible in the features of the merry buffoon.

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"Silence, buffoon; or I shall presently raise a discord about thee, by which all thy future powers of hearing shall be ruefully endangered."

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Thersites--Shakspeare's Thersites--for Homer's was another Thersites quite--finely called by Coleridge, "the Caliban of demagogic life"--loses all individuality, and is but a brutal buffoon grossly caricatured.

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"Bounds on the arch-buffoon, with flexile face, With bagman smartness and batrachian grace.

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"We bring up our daughters," he says, "as if they were destined to be the wives of the dancing-masters and the buffoons to whom we entrust their instruction."

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At various times of the day groups of priests and novices move up and down the market collecting offerings from the people, while some "original" or buffoon gives the scene its touch of humour.

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He was then asked why he had introduced the buffoon with a parrot on his hand.

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This defence of the vast and crowded canvas did not commend itself, and he was asked if he really thought that at the Last Supper of our Saviour it was fitting to bring in dwarfs, buffoons, drunken Germans, and other absurdities.

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To him she talks, rather than writes, as she talks to her intimates, in overwhelming voluble fashion, gossiping, punning, often playing the buffoon, as she does with that little set of hers at her retreat of the "Hermitage."

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And it is a chance if there be wanting some quarrelsome persons that will shew their teeth, and pretend these fooleries are either too buffoon-like for a grave divine, or too satyrical for a meek christian, and so will exclaim against me as if I were vamping up some old farce, or acted anew the Lucian again with a peevish snarling at all things.

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The reason why I appear in this odd kind of garb, you shall soon be informed of, if for so short a while you will have but the patience to lend me an ear; yet not such a one as you are wont to hearken with to your reverend preachers, but as you listen withal to mountebanks, buffoons, and merry-andrews; in short, such as formerly were fastened to Midas, as a punishment for his affront to the god Pan.

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Witness _Menenius_ in the following Tragedy, whom he has made an errant Buffoon, which is a great Absurdity.

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For he might as well have imagin'd a grave majestick _Jack-Pudding_, as a Buffoon in a _Roman_ Senator.

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For first whereas _Menenius_ was an eloquent Person, _Shakespear_ has made him a downright Buffoon.

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Never was any Buffoon eloquent, or wise, or witty, or virtuous.

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All the good and ill Qualities of a Buffoon are summ'd up in one Word, and that is a Buffoon.

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who is nothing but a drolling, lazy, conceited, overlooking Coxcomb; so far from being the honoured _Achilles_, the Epithet that _Homer_ and _Horace_ after him give him, that he is deservedly the Scorn and the Jest of the rest of the Characters, even to that Buffoon _Thersites_.

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Dennis is offended that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated when the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard.

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He knew that Rome, like every other city, had men of all dispositions; and wanting a buffoon, he went into the senate-house for that which the senate-house would certainly have afforded him.

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This incident is generally construed to the disadvantage of _Falstaff_: It is a transaction which bears the external marks of Cowardice: It is also aggravated to the spectators by the idle tricks of the Player, who practises on this occasion all the attitudes and wild apprehensions of fear; more ambitious, as it should seem, of representing a _Caliban_ than a _Falstaff_; or indeed rather a poor unwieldy miserable Tortoise than either.-The painful Comedian lies spread out on his belly, and not only covers himself all over with his robe as with a shell, but forms a kind of round Tortoise-back by I know not what stuffing or contrivance; in addition to which, he alternately lifts up, and depresses, and dodges his head, and looks to the one side and to the other, so much with the piteous aspect of that animal, that one would not be sorry to see the ambitious imitator calipashed in his robe, and served up for the entertainment of the gallery.-There is no hint for this mummery in the Play: Whatever there may be of dishonour in _Falstaff_'s conduct, he neither does or says any thing on this occasion which indicates terror or disorder of mind: On the contrary, this very act is a proof of his having all his wits about him, and is a stratagem, such as it is, not improper for a buffoon, whose fate would be singularly hard, if he should not be allowed to avail himself of his Character when it might serve him in most stead.

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_Falstaff_ is not surely introduced here in vicious indulgence to a mob audience;-he utters but one word, a buffoon one indeed, but aside, and to the Prince only.

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No, like a buffoon only; the superior principle prevails, and _Falstaff_ lives by a stratagem growing out of his character, to prove himself _no counterfeit_, to jest, to be employed, and to fight again.

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But _Shakespeare_, who delighted in difficulties, was resolved to furnish a richer repast, and to give to one eminent buffoon the high relish of wit, humour, birth, dignity, and Courage.

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Such, I think, is the true character of this extraordinary buffoon; and from hence we may discern for what special purposes _Shakespeare_ has given him talents and qualities, which were to be afterwards obscured, and perverted to ends opposite to their nature; it was clearly to furnish out a Stage buffoon of a peculiar sort; a kind of Game-bull which would stand the baiting thro' a hundred Plays, and produce equal sport, whether he is pinned down occasionally by _Hal_ or _Poins_, or tosses such mongrils as _Bardolph_, or the Justices, sprawling in the air.

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However we have reason to be satisfied as it is;-his death was worthy of his birth and of his life: "_He was born_," he says, "_about three o'clock in the afternoon, with a white head, and something a round belly._" But if he came into the world in the evening with these marks of age, he departs out of it in the morning in all the follies and vanities of youth;-"_He was shaked_" (we are told) "_of a burning quotidian tertian;-the young King had run bad humours on the knight;-his heart was fracted and corroborate; and a' parted just between twelve and one, even at the turning of the tide, yielding the crow a pudding, and passing directly into __ARTHUR'S BOSOM__, if ever man went into the bosom of __ARTHUR__._"-So ended this singular buffoon; and with him ends an Essay, on which the reader is left to bestow what character he pleases: An Essay professing to treat of the Courage of _Falstaff_, but extending itself to his Whole character; to the arts and genius of his Poetic-Maker, SHAKESPEARE; and thro' him sometimes, with ambitious aim, even to the principles of human nature itself.

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The popular lecture has fallen into disrepute with many worthy persons in consequence of the admission of buffoons and triflers to the lecturer's platform; and it is an evil which ought to be remedied.

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But this profusion of blessings, instead of being attended with any beneficial effects, produced nothing but a foolish taste for frivolous employment and sensuality; feasts, and dances, and music, and tricks of players, and exhibitions of buffoons, were more attended to than all the serious and important cares of life.

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The buffoon, Larry Beers, was there, swinging jauntily along with the bejeweled wife of Samson, the multimillionaire packer.

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He was classed with the court buffoons and dwarfs who existed merely to amuse.

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In addition to the little company of dwarfs there were buffoons at the court, and of these Velazquez painted Pablillos, who is known as "the comedian," and Don Juan of Austria, whose portrait is a triumph of harmony in colour, the pink of mantle and stockings contrasting admirably with black doublet and cape.

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For the greatest of _Buffoons_ are the _Italians_: and in their Writings, in their freer sort of Conversations, on their Theatres, and in their _Streets_, _Buffoonery_ and _Burlesque_ are in the highest Vogue.

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In a word, their Author acts the Part of a _Jack-Pudding_, _Merry Andrew_, or _Buffoon_, with all the seeming Right, Authority, and Privilege, of the Member of some Establish'd Church of abusing all the World but themselves.

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And when they were attack'd by one _Samuel Young_, a whimsical Presbyterian-Buffoon-Divine, who call'd himself _Trepidantium Malleus_, and set up for an Imitator of Mr. _Alsop_, in several Pamphlets full of Stories, Repartees, and Ironies; in which _Young_, perhaps, thought himself as secure from a Return of the like kind, as a Ruffian or Thief may when he assaults Men: His Attacks were repell'd in a Book intitled "_Trepidantium Malleus intrepidanter malleatus_; or the West Country Wiseaker's crack-brain'd _Reprimand_ hammer'd about his own Numbscul.

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"_Another Buffoon was hired to plague the Nation with three or four Papers a Week, which to the Reproach of the Age in which we live, had but too great and too general Effect, for poisoning the Spirits of the Clergy._" [64] _In this Work the Dissenters and Low Churchmen are sufficiently rally'd and abus'd, and particularly the_ Free-Thinkers, _whose_ Creed _is therein represented as consisting of these two Negatives_, No Queen and no God.

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During these the Mahdi threw his arms and legs about like a buffoon or raised his eyes in rapture, repeating "Lo!

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But, indeed, had I lived in the Middle Ages (I am heartily glad that I did not) I should have been an eremite myself--if I had not been a professed buffoon, that is.

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"I have been a buffoon, of course," observed Jean-Marie.

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It want to have not any indulgence towards the bat buffoons.

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Even if the "boozing buffoon" had been a boozing buffoon and nothing more, Hogg, who confesses with a little affected remorse, but with evident pride, that he once got regularly drunk every night for some six weeks running, till "an inflammatory fever" kindly pulled him up, could not have greatly objected to this part of the matter.

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It is certain that many of Hogg's friends, and, in his touchy moments he himself, considered that great liberty was taken with him, if not that (as the _Quarterly_ put it in a phrase which evidently made Wilson very angry) he was represented as a mere "boozing buffoon."

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He will pretty certainly, with the _Quarterly_ reviewer, set their characters down as boozing buffoons, and decline the honour of an invitation to Ambrose's or The Lodge, to Southside or the tent in Ettrick Forest.

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Am I not scorn'd, forsaken, and abandon'd; Left, like a common wretch, to shame and infamy; Giv'n up to be the sport of villains' tongues, Of laughing parasites, and lewd buffoons?

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But Mackay was miles from publishing his weakness to the world; laid the blame of his failure on corrupt masters and a corrupt State policy; and after he had been one night overtaken and had played the buffoon in his cups, sternly, though not without tact, suppressed all reference to his escapade.

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Sheil said, 'The difficulty is how to deal with a bully and a buffoon,' and as they have succumbed to and bargained with the one, now they are going to truckle to the other; there is not one of them who has scrupled to express his opinion of Brougham, but let us see if he really does come in or much indignation may be thrown away.

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[4] [4] [O'Connell had called Lord Alvanley a 'bloated buffoon,' and as usual took refuge in his vow never to fight another duel.

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was a man who, coming to the throne at the mature age of sixty-five, was so excited by the exaltation, that he nearly went mad, and distinguished himself by a thousand extravagances of language and conduct, to the alarm or amusement of all who witnessed his strange freaks; and though he was shortly afterwards sobered down into more becoming habits, he always continued to be something of a blackguard and something more of a buffoon.

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Nothing was to be seen but _jongleurs_, _farceurs_, and other actors and buffoons, extravagance, debauchery, and constant change.

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in thine insanity Thou sinkest Soul into a poor buffoon, Garbëd in tinsel and false ornament To play its antics on the stage of life, A thing for fools to laugh at in their mirth.

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Let it not, therefore, be conceived that I mean to degrade or vilify the literary character, when I would only separate the Author from those polluters of the press who have turned a vestal into a prostitute; a grotesque race of famished buffoons or laughing assassins; or that populace of unhappy beings, who are driven to perish in their garrets, unknown and unregarded by all, for illusions which even their calamities cannot disperse.

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[44] It will surprise when I declare that this buffoon was an indefatigable student, a proficient in all the learned languages, an elegant poet, and, withal, a wit of no inferior class.

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The Arian Whiston was himself, from pure motives, suffering expulsion from Cambridge, for refusing his subscription to the Athanasian Creed; he was a pious man, and no buffoon, but a little crazed.

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--"On Wit and Imagination," abounding with excellent criticism.--"On grave conundrums and serious buffoons, in defence of burlesque discourses, from the most weighty authorities."

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GABRIEL HARVEY was an author of considerable rank, but with two learned brothers, as Wood tells us, "had the ill luck to fall into the hands of that noted and restless buffoon, Tom Nash."

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The buffoon, Tarleton, celebrated for his extempore humour, jested on them at the theatre;[82] Elderton, a drunken ballad-maker, "consumed his ale-crammed nose to nothing in bear-bating them with bundles of ballads.

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Warburton here adopted the popular notion, that the witty buffoon Aristophanes was the occasion of the death of the philosopher Socrates.

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Our critic attributes these reports to "an English dunce, whose blunders and calumnies are now happily forgotten, and repeated by a French buffoon, whose morality is not commensurate with his wit."

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Voltaire is "the French buffoon;" who, indeed, compares Warburton in his bishopric, to Peachum in the Beggar's Opera--who, as Keeper of Newgate, was for hanging all his old accomplices!

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[256] Evelyn, whose elegant mind, one would have imagined, had been little susceptible of such vehement anger, in the preface to his "Sylva," scolds at no common rate: "Well-meaning people are led away by the noise of a few ignorant and comical buffoons, who, with an insolence suitable to their understanding, are still crying out, _What have the Society done?_" He attributes all the opposition and ridicule the Society encountered to a personage not usual to be introduced into a philosophical controversy--"The Enemy of Mankind."

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The satirist describes Parker's arrogance for those whom Parker calls the vulgar, and whom he defies as "a rout of wolves and tigers, apes and buffoons;" yet his personal fears are oddly contrasted with his self-importance: "If he chance but to sneeze, he prays that the _foundations of the earth_ be not shaken.--Ever since he crept up to be but the _weathercock of a steeple_, he trembles and cracks at every puff of wind that blows about him, as if the _Church of England_ were falling."

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And elsewhere he calls him "a drunken buffoon," and asserts that "he made his conscience more cheap than he had formerly made his reputation;" but the familiar anecdote of Marvell's political honesty, when, wanting a dinner, he declined the gold sent to him by the king, sufficiently replies to the calumniator.

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[310] The severity of his satire on Charles's court may be well understood by the following lines:-- "A colony of French possess the court, Pimps, priests, buffoons, in privy-chamber sport; Such slimy monsters ne'er approached a throne Since Pharaoh's days, nor so defil'd a crown; In sacred ear tyrannick arts they croak, Pervert his mind, and good intentions choak."

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That he condescended to bring obscure individuals on the stage, appears by his character of _Carlo Buffoon_, in _Every Man out of his Humour_.

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The Aubrey Papers, recently published have given us the character of this _Carlo Buffoon_, "one Charles Chester, a bold impertinent fellow; and they could never be at quiet for him; a perpetual talker, and made a noise like a drum in a room.

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Where personal?--Except to a mimic, cheater, bawd, buffoon, creatures (for their insolencies) worthy to be taxed."

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satirised by Marvell, 393 its characteristics, 414 COWEL incurs by his curious work "The Interpreter" the censure of the King and the Commons on opposite principles, 193 COWLEY, original letter from, _n._ 36 his essays form a part of his confessions, 37 describes his feelings at court, _ib._ his melancholy attributed to his "Ode to Brutus," by which he incurred the disgrace of the court, 40 his remarkable lamentation for having written poetry, 41 his Epitaph composed by himself, 42 CRITIC, poetical, without any taste, how he contrived to criticise poems, 143 CRITICISMS, illiberal, some of its consequences stated, 140 CROSS attacks the Royal Society, 344-346 CROUSAZ dissects Pope's "Essay on Man", 256 CURLL, and his publication of Pope's letters, 292 D'AVENANT, his poem of "Gondibert", 404 history of its composition, _n._ 404 its merits and defects, 405-408 a club of wits satirize it, 409 and its author, 412 and occasion it to be left unfinished, 413 DAVIES, Myles, a mendicant author, his life, 30 DECKER quarrels with Ben Jonson for his arrogance, 475-487 ridicules him in his "Satiromastix", 482-487 DEDICATION, composed by a patron to himself, _n._ 30 DEDICATIONS, used in an extraordinary way, _n._ 30 DE LOLME'S work on the Constitution could find no patronage, and the author's bitter complaints, 200 relieved by the Literary Fund, _n._ 201 DENHAM falsely satirized, _n._ 429 DENNIS, John, distinguished as "The Critic", 52 his "Original Letters" and "Remarks on Prince Arthur," his best productions, 52 anecdotes of his brutal vehemence, 53 curious caricature of his personal manners, 54 a specimen of his anti-poetical notions, _n._ 55 his frenzy on the Italian Opera, 57 acknowledges that he is considered as ill-natured, and complains of public neglect, _ib._ more the victim of his criticisms than the genius he insulted, 58 his insatiable vengeance toward Pope, 286 his attack on Addison's "Cato", 315 his account with the bookseller Lintot, 331 DRAKE, Dr. John, a political writer, his miserable life, 11 DRAYTON'S national work, "The Polyolbion," ill received, and the author greatly dejected, 210 angry preface addressed "To any that will read it", 211 DRUMMOND of Hawthornden, his love of poetry, 213 conversation with Jonson, 475 DRYDEN, in his old age, complains of dying of over-study, 204 his dramatic life a series of vexations, 205 regrets he was born among Englishmen, 206 remarkable confession of the poet, _ib._ vilified by party spirit, 427 compares his quarrel with Settle to that of Jonson with Decker, _n._ 477 DUNCIAD, Pope's collections for, 278 early editions of, _n._ 283 rage of persons satirized in, _n._ 284 satire on naturalists in, 342 DUNTON the bookseller satirized by Swift, 430 DYSON defends Akenside, 265 EACHARD'S satire on Hobbes and his sect, _n._ 439 EDWARDS, Thomas, author of "Canons of Criticism", 261 biographical notice, _n._ 532 anecdotes of his critical sagacity, _n._ 262-263 origin of his "Canons of Criticism", 532 EVANS, Arise, a fanatical Welsh prophet, patronised by Warburton, _n._ 240 EVELYN defends the Royal Society, 340 EXERCISE, to be substituted for medicine by literary men, and which is the best, _n._ 68 FALSE rumours in the great Civil War, 421 FARNEWORTH'S Translation of Machiavel, 84 FELL, Dr., an opponent of the Royal Society, 350 ungenerous to Hobbes, 450 rhymes descriptive of his unpopularity, 451 FIELDING attacks Sir John Hill, 368-369 FILMER, Sir R., writes to establish despotism, _n._ 449 FOLKES, Martin, President of the Royal Society, _n._ 364 attacked by Sir John Hill, _n._ 366 FULLER'S "Medicina Gymnastica," _n._ 71 GARTH, Dr., and his Dispensary, 429 GAY acts as mediator with Pope and Addison, 320 his account with Lintot the bookseller, 330 GIBBON, Ed., price of his copyright, 87 GILDON supposed by Pope to have been employed by Addison to write against him, 316 GLANVILL a defender of the Royal Society, 244 GLOVER, Leonidas, declines to write a Life of Marlborough, _n._ 325 GOLDSMITH'S remonstrance on illiberal criticism, from which the law gives no protection, 142 GRANGER'S complaint of not receiving half the pay of a scavenger, 85 GREENE, Robert, a town-wit, his poverty and death, 23 awful satirical address to, _n._ 119 GREY, Dr. Zachary, the father of our commentators, ridiculed and abused, 104 the probable origin of his new mode of illustrating Hudibras, _ib._ Warburton's double-dealing with him, _n._ 259 GUTHRIE offers his services as a hackney-writer to a minister, 8 HACKETT executed for attacks on the church, _n._ 518 HANMER, Sir T., his edition of Shakespeare, _n._ 242, _n._ 258 HARDOUIN supposes the classics composed by monks in the Middle Ages, 249-252 HARRINGTON and his "Oceana", 449 HARVEY, Dr., and his discovery of the circulation of the blood, 335 HARVEY, Gabriel, his character, 117 his device against his antagonist, _n._ 119 his portrait, 121 severely satirised by Nash for his prolix periods, 122 cannot be endured to be considered as the son of a rope-maker, 123 his pretended sordid manners, 124 his affectation of Italian fashions, _ib._ his friends ridiculed, 125 his pedantic taste for hexameter verses, &c., 127 his curious remonstrance with Nash, 126 his lamentation on invectives, 129 his books, and Nash's, suppressed by order of the Archbishop of Canterbury for their mutual virulence, 120 HAWKESWORTH, Dr., letter on presenting his MS. of Cook's Voyages for examination, the publication of which overwhelmed his fortitude and intellect, 199 HENLEY, Orator, this buffoon an indefatigable student, an elegant poet, and wit, 59 his poem of "Esther, Queen of Persia", 60 sudden change in his character, 62 seems to have attempted to pull down the Church and the University, 63 some idea of his lectures, _n._ 64 his projects to supply a Universal School, _ib._ specimens of his buffoonery on solemn occasions, 66 his "Defence of the Oratory," _n._ _ib._ once found his match in two disputants, 67 specimen of the diary of his "Oratory Transactions", _ib._ close of his career, _n._ 68 his character, 69 parallel between him and Sir John Hill, 363 HENRY, Dr., the Historian, the sale of his work, on which he had expended most of his fortune and his life, stopped, and himself ridiculed, by a conspiracy raised against him, 136 HENRY, Dr., caustic review of his history, _n._ _ib._ HERON, Robert, draws up the distresses of a man of letters living by literary industry, in the confinement of a sponging-house, from his original letter, 81 HERRICK, Robert, petulant invective against Devonshire, 215 HILL, Aaron, and his quarrel with Pope, 290 HILL, Sir John, 362-396 parallel between him and Orator Henley, 383 his great work on Botany, _n._ _ib._ his personalities, 364 attacks the Royal Society, 365 his _Inspector_, 367 war of wit with Fielding, 368 and Smart, 370-372 attacks Woodward, who replies with some ridiculous anecdotes, _n._ 372 proposes himself as keeper of the Sloane collection, 374 manufactures _Travels_, _n._ 374 his death, 375 HOBBES contemns the Royal Society, 342 praises D'Avenant's poem of "Gondibert", 408-412 his quarrels, 436 peculiarities of his character, 437 his sect, 438 his real opinions, 439 his "Leviathan", 440-448 feared and suspected by both parties, _n._ 442 no atheist, _n._ 445 his continual disputations, 448-450 his terror of death, 451 the real solution of his fears, 452 his disciples in literature, _n._ 455 his pride, 456 his mode of composition, _n._ 459 his contented poverty, and consistent conduct, _ib._ characteristics of his writings, 461 his passion for mathematics, 464 leads to a quarrel with Dr. Wallis, 465-473 HOME and his tragedy of "Douglas", 79 HOWEL, nearly lost his life by excessive study, 74 HUME, his literary life mortified with disappointments, 202 wished to change his name and his country, 204 his letter to Des Maiseaux requesting his opinion of his philosophy, 202 HURD, Bishop, biographical note on, 253 imitates Warburton's style, _n._ 269 _Icon Libellorum._ See _Athenæ Britannicæ_.

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The author, for all his antics, has a good deal more in him than the average buffoon.

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Of all injured vanities, that of the reproved buffoon is the most savage; and when grave issues are involved, these petty stabs become unbearable.

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