Sir Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian is a tale of the Porteous riot, in which are introduced the interesting incidents of Effie and Jeanie Deans. Effie is seduced while in the service of…
Solomon (Prov. xiii. 24) says: “He that spareth the rod hateth his son;” but Samuel Butler, in his Hudibras (pt. ii. canto 1, line 843), says: Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare…
A voice proceeding from a speaking-trumpet or stentorophonic tube, such as Sir Samuel Morelard invented to be used at sea. I heard a formidable noise Loud as the stentrophonic voice, That…
or Subvolvani. The antagonists of the Privolvans in Samuel Butler's satirical poem called The Elephant in the Moon. The gallant Subvolvani rally, And from their trenches make a sally.…
is artifice by the hand. (Icelandic, slædgh, German, schlich, cunning or trick.) And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight of hand. Butler Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 3…
(3 syl.). In 1778 a force of British provincials and Indians, led by Colonel Butler, drove the settlers out of the valley, and Queen Esther tomahawked…
(Head ). Chief agent; the principal man employed by another; a factotum. Head waiter or butler (botteller ). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bottled…
A sorceress, who could bring the moon from heaven. Alluded to by Horace. (Epodes, v.) Your ancient conjurors were wont To make her [the moon] from her sphere dismount, And to their…
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