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As to a mimic or a wag, he is little else than a buffoon, who will distort his mouth and his eyes to make people laugh.

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The persons of these dreams were (and still are) invariably women, with this one remembered exception: I dreamed that Oscar Wilde, one of my photographs of him incarnate, approached me with a buffoon languishment and perpetrated _fellatio_, an act verbally expounded shortly before by my oracle.

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_IV.--THE SIN OF SIMONY_ Reverend Fathers,--I was about to write to you concerning the accusations which you have so long brought against me, wherein you call me impious, buffoon, rogue, impostor, calumniator, swindler, heretic, disguised Calvinist, one possessed of a legion of devils.

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In the social display of wit and humour, there is a marked mean between the buffoon and the dullard or prig.

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Of all the laudable motives of human life, none has suffered so much in this kind as love; under which revered name, a brutal desire called lust is frequently concealed and admitted; though they differ as much as a matron from a prostitute, or a companion from a buffoon.

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Swanhilda for a while kept herself quiet; but as the luminous antic ceased not practising his harlequinade, she peevishly exclaimed--'What buffoon is carrying on his fooleries here?

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He introduced me to his favourite book _Till Eulenspiegel_, and we sped joyously through the adventures of that immortal buffoon of German folk-lore.

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Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; Was Every thing by starts, and Nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon: Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking; Besides ten thousand Freaks that dy'd in thinking.

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The Buffoon and the Countryman On the occasion of some festivities that were given by a Roman nobleman, a Merry-Andrew of a fellow caused much laughter by his tricks upon the stage, and, more than all, by his imitation of the squeaking of a Pig, which seemed to the hearers so real that they called for it again and again.

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Hitopadesa (Sanskrit) Buffoon and the Countryman, The.

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He is one of those tragic buffoons who play with eternal things, not only for the amusement of the crowd, but because an uneasy devil capers in their own brains.

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If it were not for that fine marble relief in my trunk which I bought of that miserable buffoon in the Via Sistina, I should easily persuade myself that the actual world were bounded on the east by the Atlantic and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.

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For twenty years they were chained to the car of a profligate buffoon, who dragged them through every species of ignominy to the verge of rebellion; and their hall is even yet disgraced with the statue of a worthless negro-monger, in the act of insulting their sovereign with a speech of which (factious and brutal as he was) _he never uttered one syllable_."

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The jesters and buffoons shame them out of everything grand and elevated.

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Suppose 'twas I, you thought, had drew my Pen On Virtue, see I fight for her agen; Wherefore, I hope my Foes will all excuse Th' Extravagance of a Repenting Muse; Pardon whate'er she has too boldly said, She only acted then in Masquerade; But now the Vizard's off, She's chang'd her Scene, And turns a Modest, Civil Girl agen; Let some admire the Fops whose Talent lie Inventing dull, insipid Blasphemy; I swear I cannot with those Terms dispence, Nor won't be Damn'd for the Repute of Sense; I cou'd be Bawdy much, and nick the Times, In what they dearly Love; damn'd Placket Rhimes; But that such Naus'ous Lines can reach no higher Than what the Cod-Piece or Buffoons inspire.

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The fact is that nobody understands the complaint, nor can detect the cause that makes the ghost of a man who was perfectly rational in life behave like an uneducated buffoon afterwards.

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And yet little Tompkins" (he was the chief social buffoon of the hour) "has been in great force, and I may say that I myself have occasionally provoked a grin from the good-natured."

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From the impression made by a few wits, English people have jumped to the conclusion that as a people we are specially blessed with a sense of humour, a curious _non sequitur_ which the restraint, consciously or unconsciously inculcated by the Gaelic League, is likely to make more apparent, for it is killing that conception of the Irishman as typically a boisterous buffoon with intervals of maudlin sentimentality which the stage and the popular song have so long been content to depict without protest from us, and which left Englishmen with feelings not more exalted than those of their sixteenth and seventeenth century ancestors, to whom "mere Irish" was a term of opprobrium.

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There were Fer gér and Fer gel and Fer rogel and Fer rogain and Lomna the Buffoon, and Ingcél the One-eyed--six in the centre of the circles.

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Now, my muse, I beg of you briefly to relate the engagement between the buffoon Sarmentus and Messius Cicirrus; and from what ancestry descended each began the contest.

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This place stood a common sepulcher for the miserable mob, for the buffoon Pantelabus, and Nomentanus the rake.

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How much better would this be, than to wound with severe satire Pantolabus the buffoon, and the rake Nomentanus!

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This fellow, as soon as he received a thousand talents of patrimony, issues an order that the fishmonger, the fruiterer, the poulterer, the perfumer, and the impious gang of the Tuscan alley, sausage-maker, and buffoons, the whole shambles, together with [all] Velabrum, should come to his house in the morning.

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That buffoon, Volanerius, when the deserved gout had crippled his fingers, maintained [a fellow] that he had hired at a daily price, who took up the dice and put them into a box for him: yet by how much more constant was he in his vice, by so much less wretched was he than the former person, who is now in difficulties by too loose, now by too tight a rein.

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Milvius, and the buffoons [who expected to sup with you], depart, after having uttered curses not proper to be repeated.

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Tell me, which maxim and conduct of the two you approve; or, since you are my junior, hear the reason why Aristippus' opinion is preferable; for thus, as they report, he baffled the snarling cynic: "I play the buffoon for my own advantage, you [to please] the populace.

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But he did this so stupidly, so clumsily, that you would swear he had been some street buffoon: although the author of so silly a piece is said to be a certain divine of the Dominican order, by nation a Saxon.

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You oftentimes harbour Rattles and Buffoons, and will you thrust these Men out of Doors?

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The poor people of the cities carry water, cakes, loaves, and other things, through the streets for a living, or act as buffoons, musicians, tumblers and wrestlers, at the Sultan's and other of the rich people's palaces.

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He also violated his own laws for diminishing the cost of entertainments, endeavouring to forget his grief in extravagant drinking and feasting, and in the company of buffoons.

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Hecate in Middleton has a son, a low buffoon: the hags of Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent.

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Not to tire the reader with perpetual reference to prints which he may not be fortunate enough to possess, it may be sufficient to remark, that the same tragic cast of expression and incident, blended in some instances with a greater alloy of comedy, characterizes his other great work, the _Marriage Alamode_, as well as those less elaborate exertions of his genius, the prints called _Industry_ and _Idleness_, _the Distrest Poet_, &c., forming, with the _Harlot's_ and _Rake's Progresses_, the most considerable, if not the largest class of his productions,--enough surely to rescue Hogarth from the imputation of being a mere buffoon, or one whose general aim was only to _shake the sides_.

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Carathis, unawed by the effulgence of his infernal majesty, behaves like a buffoon, shouting at the Dives and actually attempting to thrust a Soliman from his throne, before she is finally whirled away with her heart aflame.

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That this middle-aged buffoon should aspire to the hand of the loveliest and most elusive woman in England was only less amazing than that she should smile on his suit.

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SALISBURY's "Circuses," and smart buffoons, Won't move him, by "amusement," from that wish.

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Life in the eyes of these mournful buffoons is itself an utterly tragic thing; comedy must be as hollow as a grinning mask.

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_Court buffoons_ furnished some amusement at dancing and other festivals, and also at public meetings.

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'Yet the man who could write that was in many ways a mere buffoon, who praised his wares with the vulgar glibness of a quack.

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He forbids the extravagant payments usually made on such occasions to buffoons, mimics, and players.

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Thus all society is lost, Men laugh at one another's cost: And half the company is teazed That came together to be pleased: For all buffoons have most in view To please themselves by vexing you.

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What Momus was of old to Jove, The same a Harlequin is now; The former was buffoon above, The latter is a Punch below.

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To which is added A Public Testimony of Alexander Morus, Churchman, and Professor of Sacred Literature, in reply to the Calumnies of John Milton, Buffoon.

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for some time abroad, his boon-companion and buffoon all through his dreary year of Kingship among the Scots, his fellow-fugitive from the field of Worcester, and ever since, though less in Charles's company than before, and serving as a volunteer in the French army, yet a main trump-card in Charles's lists!

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you by whom the expectations of the bold pretender are fulfilled, while the hopes of the modest labourer are destroyed; you who abundantly sustain the shameless Buffoon, while the worthy sage is left to die of hunger; I bid you farewell."

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For there is something or other in my nature which makes me feel greatly shocked when I see a cavalier make a buffoon of himself, and taking pride in being able to play at thimblerig, and in dancing the chacona to perfection, I know a cavalier who boasted, that he had, at the request of a sacristan, cut out thirty-two paper ornaments, to stick upon the black cloth over a monument; and he was so proud of his performance that he took his friends to see it, as though he were showing them pennons and trophies taken from the enemy, and hung over the tombs of his forefathers.

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Among them were four of my late master's ruffian friends; one of them was the drummer, who had been a catchpole and a great buffoon, as drummers frequently are.

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[Sidenote: Which is the buffoon?]

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He becomes a formidable opponent to Theodorick and his chivalry; but as he attempted by treachery to attain the victory, he is, when overcome, condemned to fill the dishonourable yet appropriate office of buffoon and juggler at the Court of Verona.

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In an instant the man who had been masquerading as a buffoon was again the commanding officer, stern and alert.

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He took the slender stem of his pipe from his lips and pressed down the tobacco in the bowl with a, caressing thumb, looking appreciatively, as he did it, at the mocking buffoon's face that was carved on it.

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Now Frank began to play the part of a clown or buffoon, acting in a very silly and stupid manner, while the others looked on laughing and pointing their fingers at him in derision.

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There was also another personage, with a Dan Leno-like face and an extraordinary gift of contorting his legs, who played the buffoon, and gyrated round the dignified M.C., who remained unmoved while the audience laughed.

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--Buddhist Priests, see _Bon_; 1-7, 96, 113, 118, 134, 142, 194, 231, 240, 258, 264, 269, 270 (2)-1-2, 302, 314; Priest's man 270-1; Succession to 135; Wives 6, 270; Shrines 220, Value of 273; Temples, 113, 123, 134, 142, 176, 180, 211, 244, 249, 258-9, 269, 310, 327; Architecture 134, "Church" 134, New, 313, Sleeping in x; Two months in 262, Underground passage 142 Buffoon 276 Bugles 15-17 Bulls 18, 249, 250; Fighting 228 Burden of the Old 100 Burdock 48, 146, 410 Bureau of Horse Politics 195; of Hygiene 350 Burials, see Graves, 121, 267, 306; at Sea 225 Burnham, Lord, 9 Burns, Robert, 107, 288 _Bushido_ 25, 140 Businesses, linked, 315; "Business, My," 326 Butter 142, 270, 346 Butterflies 127, 287 Cabbage 53, 213, 440 Caffeine 292, 403 Cairo 390 Calendar 136 California 290, 363, 365-6 Camphor trees 219 Canada 388 Cancer 268 Candles 340 Canning, see Hokkaido, 368; Canned meat and fish 268 Cape 267, 270 Capes 47 Cape Wrath 358 Capitalism 368-9 Caps 114, 301 Caramels 272 Carbon bisulphide 60 "Carelessness" 54 Carlyle, T., 90-1, 94, 99 Carp, 39, 158, 210, 299 Carpenter 99, 267, 317 Carrier's conversation 109 Carrot 410 Carts 209; Push 194 Carving 269 "Case for the Goat, The," 347 Cast 94 Cats 47, 131, 221, 345 Cattle, see Cow, Oxen, Bulls, Hokkaido; 23, 194-5, 230, 240, 243, 316, 347, 381, 406; Keeping 194, 259, 402; Thieves 195 Cedar wood 211 Cells 116, 143 Censorship 401 Census 393-4 Cereals 367, 404 Certificate of merit 213 Cezanne 98, 103 _Chadai_ 148 Chaff 386 Chainmakers 170 Chairman 24 Champagne 140 Changes, seeming, 331 _Cha-no-yu_ 31, 214, 319 Character 88, 151, 201, 203-4-5-6-7 258, 259, 269, 288, 290, 311, 317, 323, 331-2; Nature and 99; Weakness of 101; Wish to give before have anything 102; Chinese 39 Charcoal 111, 122-3, 196 Charitable Institutions 59, 376 Charms 41, 47, 121, 125, 223, 245 Charring 227 Chastity 114, 139, 149 Chauffeur 240, 246 Chavannes, Puvis de, 98, 103 Cheek-binding 286 Cheerfulness 304, 317 Cheese 345 Chemist, Distinguished, 10 Chenille 142 Cherries 295, 319; Poems 288; Refineries 226 Chestnuts 121 Chiba 268, 297, 309, 321 Chicken 110, 349 Chief Constable, Influence of, 118 _Chihō_ 400 Children 110, 112, 117, 203, 216, 323, 377; Childbirth 268; Ages of 113; Assaults on 229; British exploitation of 170; Charm to obtain 314; Contracts 286; Crimes against 114; Marriage 197; Politeness 121; Services for 130; and Temple 58; What will he become?

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Her brother, Flamineo, becomes under Webster's treatment one of those worst human infamies--a court dependent; ruffian, buffoon, pimp, murderer by turns.

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They were, nevertheless, received everywhere, and Pathre, as Mr. Ryan was called by his friends, was permitted the licences that are usually granted to the buffoon.

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To them he is little more than a buffoon.

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"In battle, meddle not with a buffoon, for, O mac Luga, he is but a fool."

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Under Louis XIV., he would have made a magnificent minister; under his successor, a splendid courtier; but under the present unfortunate king, he must be either the brawler or the buffoon, the incendiary, or the sport, of the people.

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I am in the sentiments towards the public that the buffoon player expresses towards his patron- "Go tell my young lord, said this modest young man, If he will but invite me to dinner, I'll be as diverting as ever I can- I will, on the faith of a sinner."

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Pagan youths would have listened to Clement when he spoke of Plato as 'the truly noble and half-inspired,' while they would have looked on Tertullian as an ignorant railer, who could say nothing better of Socrates than to call him the 'Attic buffoon,' and of Aristotle than to characterize him as the 'miserable Aristotle.'"

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We thought there existed a greater genius than ourselves and that some one had discovered that Sibthorp could be converted into anything but a Member for Lincoln, and buffoon-in-waiting to the House of Commons.

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* * * * * BUFFOON'S NATURAL HISTORY.

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As he was a popular buffoon, he invented the part of Papageno, the bird-catcher, for himself, and arranged that it should be dressed in a costume of feathers.

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Melodious as Mozart always is, these songs must be regarded as concessions to the buffoon who sang them.

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Once more a concession to the buffoon occurs in a melody "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen," which would be commonplace but for Mozart's treatment of the simple air.

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After a short episode, in which Poppoea informs Epicharis of the refuge Chrysa has found, the ballet is given in the open square, with its fascinating dances of warriors, bacchantes, jugglers and buffoons, and their mimic combats, the music of which is very familiar from its frequent performance in our concert-rooms.

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He suggested to the librettist that the King should be changed to a duke of Mantua, and the title of the work to "Rigoletto," the name of the buffoon who figures in the place of the original Triboulet.

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Rigoletto, the privileged buffoon of the Duke, who also plays the part of pander in all his licentious schemes, among numerous other misdeeds has assisted his master in the seduction of the wife of Count Ceprano and the daughter of Count Monterone.

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The latter appears before the Duke and Rigoletto, and demands reparation for the dishonor put upon his house, only to find himself arrested by order of the Duke, and taunted in the most insolent manner by the buffoon, upon whom he invokes the vengeance of Heaven.

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Some spirited dramatic scenes follow, which introduce the malediction of Monterone and the compact between Rigoletto and Sparafucile, and lead up to a scena of great power ("Io la lingua, egli ha il pugnali"), in which the buffoon vents his furious rage against the courtiers.

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_Of a bold abusive Wit._ He talks madly, _dash, dash,_ without any fear at all, and never cares how he _bespatters_ others, or defiles himself; nor ceases he till he has quite run himself out of breath; when no wonder, if to fools he seems to get the start of those who wisely pick out their way, and are as fearful of abusing others as themselves: He has the _Buffoons_ priviledge, of saying or doing anything without exceptions, and he will call a jealous man _Cuckold_, a childe of doubtful birth _Bastard_, and a _Lady_ of suspected honor a _Whore_, and they but laugh at it; and all _Scholars_ are _Pedants_; and _Physicians_, _Quacks_ with him, when to be angry at it is the avowing it.

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Then in _Ladies_ chambers, he will tumble beds, and towse your _Ladies_ dress up unto the height, to the hazard of a _Bed-staff_ thrown at his head, or rap o're the fingers with a _Busk_, and that is all; only is this he is far worse than the _Buffoon_, since they study to _delight_, this only to _offend_; they to make _merry_, but this onely to make you _mad_, whence wo be t' ye of he discovers and _imperfection_ or _fault_ in you, for he never findes a _breach_ but he makes a _hole_ of it; nor a _hole_ but he _tugs_ at it so long till he tear it quite; giving you for reason of his _incivility_, because (forsooth) _it troubled you_, which would make any civil man cease troubling you.

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Zeno gave abusive language not only to those who were then living, as Apollodorus, Syllus, and the rest, but he called Socrates, who was the father of philosophy, the Attic buffoon, using the Latin word _Scurra_.

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I am the clown in every tragedy I come across--the comic relief man--the buffoon in every side-show.

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When an illiberal and low buffoon basks in the sunshine of a court, and enjoys exorbitant power, the cause of literature can have nothing to expect.

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[Footnote 1: "Well may the nobles of our present race Watch each distortion of a Naldi's face; Well may they smile on Italy's buffoons, And worship Catalani's pantaloons."

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Now twice each day within the Hippodrome I, a buffoon in absurd clothes, Strive to make the thousands laugh; And when my act is done There comes the tread of camels' feet, Followed by Slayman Ali and his Arab troupe, Who tumble, jump and build pyramids Before a canvas Sphinx upon a painted desert....

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SKELTON.--John Skelton, poet, priest, and buffoon, was born about the year 1460, and educated at what he calls "Alma parens, O Cantabrigensis."

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Skelton, a contemporary of the French Rabelais, seems to us a weak English portrait of that great author; like him a priest, a buffoon, a satirist, and a lampooner, but unlike him in that he has given us no English _Gargantua_ and _Pantagruel_ to illustrate his age.

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The public taste was so wedded to the devil of the mysteries, that he could not be given up in the moral plays: he kept his place; but a rival buffoon appeared in the person of _the vice_, who tried conclusions with the archfiend in serio-comic style until the close of the performance, when Satan always carried the vice away in triumph, as he should do.

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This play is a coarser piece than Ralph Roister Doister; the buffoon raises the devil to aid him in finding the lost needle, which is at length found, by very palpable proof, to be sticking in the seat of Goodman Hodge's breeches.

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It must, indeed, be admitted that many of the nobility are as perfectly willing to act the part of flatterers, tale-bearers, parasites, pimps, and buffoons, as any of the lowest and vilest of mankind can possibly be.

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Nor did this son only call himself Lord Purbeck, for on the death of the childless second Duke of Buckingham, of whom Dryden wrote:--[107] Stiff in opinion--always in the wrong-- Was everything by starts, but nothing long; Who in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon.

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was developing his true character of brute and buffoon, gathering around him the lowest profligates, and reveling in the most debasing and vulgar vices, Catharine, though guilty and unhappy, was holding her court with dignity and affability, which charmed all who approached her.

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Unaccustomed to many of the diversions of the world, they have seldom, if ever, seen him in the low condition of a hired buffoon or mimic.

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I reply thus: The Quakers, in consequence of their prohibitions against all public amusements, have never seen man in the capacity of a hired buffoon or mimic, or as a purchasable plaything.

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A Moorish and a Scythian buffoon successively excited the mirth of the rude spectators, by their deformed figure, ridiculous dress, antic gestures, absurd speeches, and the strange, unintelligible confusion of the Latin, the Gothic, and the Hunnic languages; and the hall resounded with loud and licentious peals of laughter.

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Amongst others which he thus appropriated, were the most extravagant and buffoon scenes in Moliere's "_Bourgeois Gentilhomme_;" in which Monsieur Jourdain is, with much absurd ceremony, created a Turkish Paladin; and where Moliere took the opportunity to introduce an _entrée de ballet_, danced and sung by the Mufti, dervises, and others, in eastern habits.

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Th' unnatural strained buffoon is only taking; No fop can please you now of God's own making.

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In his opinion Sir Robert Walpole was "a great rogue"; Mr. Horace Walpole, ambassador to France, was a "dirty buffoon"; Newcastle, an "impertinent fool"; Lord Townshend, a "choleric blockhead";[103] while Lord Chesterfield was disposed of as a "tea-table scoundrel.

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a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumor; From morning to night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and good-humor!

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His chief associates were artists, men of letters, astrologers, buffoons, and exiles.

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Nymphs and centaurs, singers and buffoons, drank choice wine from golden goblets.

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His table, which was open to all the poets, singers, scholars, and buffoons of Rome, cost half the revenues of Romagna and the March.

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He complains that he makes the good and the bad perish promiscuously; and that in "Coriolanus"--a play which Dennis "improved" for the new stage--he represents Menenius as a buffoon and introduces the rabble in a most undignified fashion.

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Pimps, Parasites, Buffoons, and all the Crew That under Friendship's name weak man undo; Find their false service kindlier understood, Than such as tell bold Truths to do us good.

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[476] There is no better test of the popular opinion of a man than the character assigned to him on the stage; and till the close of the sixteenth century Sir John Oldcastle remained the profligate buffoon of English comedy.

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Down by yon outlet rode Grahame of Claverhouse and his thirty dragoons, with the town beating to arms behind their horses' tails--a sorry handful thus riding for their lives, but with a man at their head who was to return in a different temper, make a bold dash that staggered Scotland, and die happily in the thick of the fight.... "The palace of Holyrood is a house of many memories.... Great people of yore, kings and queens, buffoons and grave ambassadors played their stately farce for centuries in Holyrood.

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So of a buffoon, in Love's Labour lost , it is said, that he is allowed , that is, at liberty to say what he will, a privileged scoffer.

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In the latter case the buffoon, an invariable adjunct, committed a thousand extravagances, and was a dear, delightful, naughty ancient Egyptian buffoon.

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