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Indeed, I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon.

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So I say, ‘Let me really play the buffoon.

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I am not afraid of your opinion, for you are every one of you worse than I am.’ That is why I am a buffoon.

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You must excuse me!” “The devil only knows, what if he deceives us?” thought Miüsov, still hesitating, and watching the retreating buffoon with distrustful eyes.

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You Karamazovs brag of being an ancient, noble family, though your father used to run about playing the buffoon at other men's tables, and was only admitted to the kitchen as a favor.

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I won't argue, I'll fall in with everything, I'll win them by politeness, and ... and ... show them that I've nothing to do with that Æsop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have.” He determined to drop his litigation with the monastery, and relinquish his claims to the wood-cutting and fishery rights at once.

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He remembered his own words at the elder's: “I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I.” He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness.

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Allow me, Father Superior, though I am a buffoon and play the buffoon, yet I am the soul of honor, and I want to speak my mind.

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Fyodor Pavlovitch was an obstinate and cunning buffoon, yet, though his will was strong enough “in some of the affairs of life,” as he expressed it, he found himself, to his surprise, extremely feeble in facing certain other emergencies.

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It is true that at that time he was overdoing his part as a buffoon.

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You believe what people say, that I'm nothing but a buffoon.

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Alyosha, do you believe that I'm nothing but a buffoon?” “No, I don't believe it.” “And I believe you don't, and that you speak the truth.

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“Buffoon!” blurted out the girl at the window.

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‘You fools and buffoons, can you ever do anything rational?’ ‘Quite so,’ I said, ‘can we ever do anything rational?’ For the time I turned it off like that.

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He means it only too seriously, though he is a buffoon.

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So our general, settled on his property of two thousand souls, lives in pomp, and domineers over his poor neighbors as though they were dependents and buffoons.

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I know him, but what do you make of him—a mountebank, a buffoon?” “Oh, no; there are people of deep feeling who have been somehow crushed.

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But Ilusha could not bear to see his father fooling and playing the buffoon.

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A petty knave, a toady and buffoon, of fairly good, though undeveloped, intelligence, he was, above all, a moneylender, who grew bolder with growing prosperity.

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The caresses of harlots and the jests of buffoons regulated the policy of the state.

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The project was a daring one, in view of Constable's great ability and resources; to make it foolhardy to madness Scott selected to manage the new business a brother of James Ballantyne, a dissipated little buffoon, with about as much business ability and general caliber of character as is connoted by the name which Scott coined for him, "Rigdumfunnidos."

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King Manuel, says Damião de Goes, always kept at his Court Spanish buffoons as a corrective of the manners and habits of the courtiers[95].

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Mus._ 41, 12) takes to mean 'buffoon,' or 'writer of comedies,' from which Plautus took his family name, Maccius, on becoming a Roman citizen.

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"Cicero, who hated Tigellius, the flattering musical buffoon so well described by Horace, thus lashes his country in a letter to Fabius Gallus: 'Id ego in lucris pono non ferre hominem pestilentiorem putriâ suâ.'

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of Berkshire, it is said in Aug. 1660, "Mr. Ashmole had a commission to examine that infamous buffoon and trumpeter of rebellion, Hugh Peters, concerning the disposal of the pictures, jewels, &c., belonging to the royal family, which were committed chiefly to his care, and sold and dispersed over Europe: which was soon brought to a conclusion by the obstinacy or ignorance of their criminal, who either would not, or was not able to, give the desired satisfaction."]

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Before him, tragedy was no more than a jumble of buffoon tales in the comic style, intermixed with the singing of a chorus in praise of Bacchus; for it is to the feasts of that god, celebrated at the time of the vintage, that tragedy owes its birth.

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But when Lupicinus, of whom we have already spoken, learnt by secret intelligence that this was taking place, while he was engaged in an extravagant entertainment, surrounded by buffoons, and almost overcome by wine and sleep, he, fearing the issue, put to death all the guards who, partly as a compliment and partly as a guard to the chiefs, were on duty before the general's tent.

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And with those things came all the rest; the manners, the household life, the necessaries and the fancies of a conquering and already decadent nation, the thousands of slaves whose only duty was to amuse their owners and the public; the countless men and women and girls and boys, whose souls and bodies went to feed the corruption of the gorgeous capital, or to minister to its enormous luxuries; the companies of flute-players and dancing-girls, the sharp-tongued jesters, the coarse buffoons, the play-actors and the singers.

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Nero's love of sympathy, made him anxious to be applauded on the stage as a fiddler and a buffoon.

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They have also comic pieces, in which there is always a buffoon, whose grimaces and low jests, like those of the buffoons in our own theatres, obtain from the audience the greatest share of applause.

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Then said from his place the court buffoon, "Methinks thou art Ingefred not Gudrune."

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From off her hand a gold ring she took, Which she gave the buffoon with entreating look.

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A buffoon.

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It was a curious coincidence that Maitland should within a few years have had two sovereigns as passengers,--one the central figure of modern European history, the other the good-natured elderly buffoon who in this country is chiefly remembered as the husband of the friend of Lady Hamilton.

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The satire upon individuals may be all very well in its place, but a man, he said, has no business to set up as the 'regenerator of society' because he is its most 'distinguished buffoon.'

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He was not picking his words, and 'buffoon' is certainly an injudicious phrase; but the sentiment which it expressed was so characteristic and deeply rooted that I must dwell a little upon its manifestation at this time.

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The war between the Saturday reviewers and their antagonists was carried on with a frequent use of the nicknames 'prig' and 'cynic' upon one side, and 'buffoon' and 'sentimentalist' upon the other.

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The landlord, seeing how the tide was turning, added, 'Brazen _Marshallik_ (buffoon)!'

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"Now," answered his friend, "what honor can lie in blacking your face with mustachios and assuming the burlesque disguise of a buffoon, in order to be cudgelled on a public stage?"

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After the restoration, he was of course neglected by the fiddling, gambling, wenching, royal buffoon, who succeeded the royal martyr, and whose necessities he had supplied, when an outcast pauper exile in a foreign land, from the proceeds of those very estates which he had so nearly lost in fighting for his crown.

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The most foolish young man I knew was attired as Cardinal Richelieu; the wisest, in certain respects, had a buffoon's costume, and plagued the statesman and churchman grievously.

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And ye Macs, and ye Donalds upon Donalds, go on, and may our gallows-hills and liberty poles be honour'd and adorn'd with some of your heads: Why should Tyburn and Temple-bar make a monopoly of so valuable a commodity?_ _Wishing you abundance of entertainment in the re-acting this Tragi-Comedy, and of which I should be proud to take a part with you, tho' I have reason to think you would not of choice let me come within three hundred yards of your stage, lest I should rob you of your laurels, receive the clap of the whole house, and pass for a second Garrick among you, as you know I always act with applause, speak bold--point blank--off hand--and without prompter._ _I am_, My Lords and Gentlemen Buffoons, _Your always ready humble servant,_ DICK RIFLE.

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See them pass: the Pope of Christendom, in his three hats and heavy trailing gowns, blessing the air of heaven; the priest, in his alb and chasuble, dispensing of the blessings of the Pope; the judge, in his wig and bombazine, endeavouring to reconcile divine justice with the law's mundane majesty; the college doctor, in cap and gown, anointing the young princes of knowledge; the buffoon, in his cap and bells, dancing to the god of laughter; mylady of the pink-tea circle, in her huffing, puffing gasoline-car, fleeing the monster of ennui; the bride and bridegroom at the altar or before the mayor putting on their already heavy-ruffled garments the sacred ruffle of law or religion; the babe brought to church by his mother and kindred to have the priest-tailor sew on his new garment the ruffle of baptism; the soldier in his gaudy uniform; the king in his ermine with a crown and sceptre appended; the Nabob of Ind in his gorgeous and multi-colored robes; and the Papuan with horns in his nostrils and rings in his ears: see them all pass.

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Had this writing been published in a pagan or _popish_ nation, who are _justly_ impatient of all indignity offered to the established religion of their country, no doubt but the author would have received the punishment he deserved.--But the fate of this impious buffoon is very different; for in a protestant kingdom, zealous of their civil and religious immunities, he has not only escaped affronts and the effects of publick resentment, but has been caressed and patronised by persons of great figure of all denominations."

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Macaulay in his Essay on Mackintosh's "History of The Revolution" describes the condition of England in 1678, after eighteen years of Charles the Second's reign, in graphic words, beginning "Such was the nation which, awaking from its rapturous trance, found itself sold to a foreign, a despotic, a Popish court, defeated on its own seas and rivers by a State of far inferior resources, and placed under the rule of pandars and buffoons."

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I suppose if people want a buffoon they tolerate him only in so far as he is amusing; it can hardly be expected that they should respect him as an equal.

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French ballet-dancers, French cooks, horse-jockeys, buffoons, procurers, tailors, boxers, fencing-masters, china, jewel, and gimcrack merchants-these were his real companions.

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You may see the place now for sixpence: they have fiddlers there every day; and sometimes buffoons and mountebanks hire the Riding House and do their tricks and tumbling there.

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The love of a wife is as much above the idle passion commonly called by that name, as the loud laughter of buffoons is inferior to the elegant mirth of gentlemen.

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The house, built by order of the Empress Anna, and in which she had celebrated the marriage of one of her buffoons in 1740, was nearly as large as ours; but in front stood six cannons of ice; they were often fired without bursting; there were also mortars to hold sixty-pound shells; so we could have some formidable artillery; the bronze is handy, and falls even from heaven.

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He made them dance, sleep, roar; he made them obstructionists, orators, buffoons, at his will.

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The same is true of comedy,-you may often laugh at buffoonery which you would be ashamed to utter, and the love of coarse merriment on the stage will at last turn you into a buffoon at home.

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There are jests which you would be ashamed to make yourself, and yet on the comic stage, or indeed in private, when you hear them, you are greatly amused by them, and are not at all disgusted at their unseemliness;-the case of pity is repeated;-there is a principle in human nature which is disposed to raise a laugh, and this which you once restrained by reason, because you were afraid of being thought a buffoon, is now let out again; and having stimulated the risible faculty at the theatre, you are betrayed unconsciously to yourself into playing the comic poet at home.

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In this last he incurred strictures from the Inquisition more severe than those of Kugler upon Tintoretto's _Last Supper_, and possibly with as much reason, it being objected that the introduction of German soldiery, buffoons, and a parrot was "irreligious."

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To this period are assigned twenty-six pictures--Senor Beruete only admits the authenticity of eighty-three in all, it may be mentioned--twelve of which are royal portraits, seven those of buffoons and dwarfs, three mythological and two sacred subjects, and the two famous pieces of real life, _Las Meninas_ and _Las Hilanderas_.

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Especially when instead of dwarfs, buffoons, and idiots, the English Court contained some exceedingly fine material besides the royal family for the artist to exercise his talent upon.

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She had made him a laughing-stock, a buffoon, a political joke.

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For the Reader's Satisfaction, here follows a Translation of the first Act of the +Miles Gloriosus+, which begins between that Blockhead and his Buffoon.

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[28] 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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If you are a philosopher, you can study human nature through the buffoon and the mummer.

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"Who'll buy my nostrums?" cried the buffoon.

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A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.

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Defn: To make appear like a buffoon.

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BOUFFE Bouffe, n. Etym: [F., buffoon.]

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See Buffoon.]

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Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon] 1.

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See Buffoon.]

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BUFFOON Buf*foon", n. Etym: [F. bouffon (cf.

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bouffer to puff out, because the buffoons puffed out their cheeks for the amusement of the spectators.

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BUFFOON Buf*foon", a. Defn: Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.

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"Buffoon stories."

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To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances.

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BUFFOON Buf*foon", v. i. Defn: To act the part of a buffoon.

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[R.] BUFFOON Buf*foon", v. t. Defn: To treat with buffoonery.

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Defn: The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.

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BUFFOONISH Buf*foon"ish, a. Defn: Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.

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BUFFOONISM Buf*foon"ism, n. Defn: The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.

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The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.

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-- Court fool, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement.

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One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.

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Defn: To jest; to play the buffoon.

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One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

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-- To play the fool, to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part.

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goliart glutton, buffoon, riotous student, Goliard, LL.

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Defn: A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.

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GOLYARDEYS Gol"yard*eys, n. Defn: A buffoon.

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No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh.

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Defn: A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.

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JACKPUDDING Jack"pud'ding, n. Defn: A merry-andrew; a buffoon.

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JAPER Jap"er, n. Defn: A jester; a buffoon.

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Sw. ganta to play the buffoon, romp, jest; perh.

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A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.

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maskharat buffoon, fool, pleasantry, anything ridiculous or mirthful, fr.

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MERRY-ANDREW Mer"ry-an"drew, n. Defn: One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

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MIMIC Mim"ic, n. Defn: One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.

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