Vulgar words in Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (Page 1)
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He makes love to Charlotte Goodchild, but supposing it to be true that she has lost her fortune, declares to her that he has just received letters "frae the dukes, the marquis, and a' the dignitaries of the family ... expressly prohibiting his contaminating the blood of M'Sarcasm wi' onything sprung from a hogshead or a coonting-house" (ii.
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ARSE'TES (3 _syl._), the aged eunuch who brought up Clorinda, and attended on her.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575).
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Solomon being told that her legs were covered with hair "like those of an ass," had the presence-chamber floored with glass laid over running water filled with fish.
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BASTARD OF ORLEANS, in Shakespeare's _Henry VI_ Part 1, is Jean Dunois a natural son of Louis of Orleans, brother of Charles VI.
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Claud Bernard of Dijon, the philanthropist (1588-1641), is called _Poor Bernard._ Pierre Joseph Bernard, the French poet (1710-1755), is called _Le gentil Bernard._ _Bernard_, an ass; in Italian _Bernardo_.
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In the beast-epic called _Reynard the Fox_, the _sheep_ is called "Bernard," and the _ass_ is "Bernard l'archipêtre" (1498).
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One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife.
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This conceited fool was duped into believing a parcel of men-servants to be lords and dukes, and made love to a lady's maid, supposing her to be a countess.
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Donna Victoria, in order to keep a husband, disguised herself in man's apparel, assumed the name of Florio, and made love as a man to her husband's mistress.
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BOLTON ASS.
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In order to punish Titan'ia, the fairy-king made her dote on Bottom, on whom Puck had placed an ass's head.--Shakespeare, _Midsummer Night's Dream_.
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He makes love to lady Froth.--W.
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BROOK (_Master_), the name assumed by Ford when sir John Falstaff makes love to his wife.
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He helps himself freely to all his master's things, and makes love to all the pretty chambermaids he comes into contact with.--Colman and Garrick, _The Clandestine Marriage_ (1766).
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Brutus' bastard hand Stabb'd Julius Cæsar.
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He is gentleman student, dancing buffoon, lover, poet, and author by turns, and nothing long unless it be a royally good fellow (1824).
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BUFFOON (_The Pulpit_).
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BU´RIDAN'S ASS.
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A man of indecision is so called from the hypothetical ass of Buridan, the Greek sophist.
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Buridan maintained that "if an ass could be placed between two hay-stacks in such a way that its choice was evenly balanced between them, it would starve to death, for there would be no motive why he should choose the one and reject the other."
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In order to induce his daughter to marry, he makes love to Marcella, a girl of sixteen.--Mrs. Cowley, _A Bold Stroke for a Husband_ (1782).
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_Careless (Ned)_, makes love to lady Pliant.--W.
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He gave the deeds of his wife's estate to donna Laura, a courtesan, and Victoria, in order to recover them, assumed the disguise of a man, took the name of Florio, and made love to her.
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The Eunuch Arse'tes (3 _syl_.)
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CON'RADE (_2 syl._), a follower of Don John (bastard brother of Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon).--Shakespeare, _Much Ado About Nothing_ (1600).
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CUPID AND PSYCHE [_Si.ky_] an episode in _The Golden Ass_ of Apuleius.
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DAMN WITH FAINT PRAISE.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with evil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.
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This "downright ass" (act i. I) aspires to the hand of the heiress Arabella.--T.
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died of laughter at seeing an ass eating the figs provided for his own dessert.--Valerius Maximus.
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(1) She slew Orion with one of her arrows, for daring to make love to her.
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Falling on one knee, he put both hands on his heart and rolled up his eyes, much after the manner of Bombastes Furioso making love to Distaffina.--E.
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you are an ass;" Dogberry tells the town clerk to write him down "an ass."
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"Masters," he says to the officials, "remember I am an ass."
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"Oh, that I had been writ down an ass!"
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On the other hand Brisk pretends to entertain friendship for Lord Froth but makes love to his wife; and Ned Careless pretends to respect and honor Lord Pliant, but bamboozles him in a similar way.--W.
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_Sancho's Ass_.
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9) that Gines de Passamonte "stole Sancho's ass."
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The licentiate tells Don Quixote that some critics found fault with him for defective memory, and instanced it in this; "We are told that Sancho's ass is stolen, but the author has forgotten to mention who the thief was."