Ink-horn is a very common epithet of contempt for pedantic and affected expressions.

age pitiless!" Pity-moving in a common epithet, and we find it afterwards in this play used by young Bruce "My tears, my prayers, my pity-moving moans.

He also wrote to two other friends, requesting them to further his petition; and adding that the duke was enraged with him in consequence of the anger of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who, it is supposed, had accused Tasso of having revealed to Alfonso some indecent epithet which his highness had applied to him.

These letters were undoubtedly intercepted, for they were found among the secret archives of Modena, the only principality ultimately remaining in the Este family; so that, agreeably to the saying of listeners hearing no good of themselves, if Alfonso did not know the epithet before, he learnt it then.

Alfonso had been exasperated to the last degree at Cosmo's having had the epithet "Grand" added by the Pope to his ducal title; and the reader may imagine the little allowance that would be made by a haughty and angry prince for the rebellious courtesy thus shewn to a detested rival.

The epithet "royal," in the next sentence, conveyed a welcome intimation to the ducal car, the house of Este being very proud of its connexion with the sovereigns of Europe, and very desirous of becoming royal itself.]

It is, indeed, absurd to apply the epithet "materialist" to a man who has written in "The Principles of Psychology": "Hence, though of the two it seems easier to translate so-called matter into so-called spirit than to translate so-called spirit into so-called matter (which latter is, indeed, wholly impossible), yet no translation can carry us beyond our symbols.

[120] This passage is repeated in The Ladies Privilege, at the end of Act I. "Curst" is an epithet applied to shrewish women and vicious beasts.

Cicero himself was of that opinion, and on different occasions applied the epithet splendidus to Caesar, as though in some exclusive sense, or with some peculiar emphasis, due to him.

Then to increase the hilarity and justify the epithet he asked several questions, at the same time winking to his favorites, as if to say to them, "You'll see how we're going to amuse ourselves.

The class took no offense, but on the contrary many thought the epithet funny and laughed.

" This last epithet was the drop of water that made the full cup overflow.

They call him a Mercury, but he becomes the epithet like the little negro mounted upon an elephant, just such another blot rampant.

A queer, and to use his own epithet, a dramatic stroke of fortune aided him at a very critical moment.

How often are they branded with this epithet of madness and folly?

Columella, the writer on agriculture, was born at Cadiz; Quintilian, the great writer on the education of an orator, was born at Calahorra; the poet Martial was a native of Bilbilis; but Cordova could boast the yet higher honour of having given birth to the Senecas, an honour which won for it the epithet of "The Eloquent."

He seems to have acquired both among his friends and among strangers the epithet of "dulcis," "the charming or fascinating Gallio:" "This is more," says the poet Statius, "than to have given Seneca to the world, and to have begotten the sweet Gallio."

We shall refer again to Seneca's wealth; but we may here admit that it was undoubtedly ungraceful and incongruous in a philosopher who was perpetually dwelling on the praises of poverty, and that even in his own age it attracted unfavourable notice, as we may see from the epithet Proedives, "the over-wealthy," which is applied to him alike by a satiric poet and by a grave historian.

[Mr. Stephen Gwynn has made the following translation for me: "Most eloquent Poet: though I know well such epithet befits orators rather than poetsand yet, Most eloquent!

What then, my soldiers, could be more preposterous than that you, who here supported the tottering fortune of the Roman people, together with my parents, (for they may be equally associated in the honour of that epithet,) when calamities crowded one upon another in quick succession, and even the gods themselves, in a manner, took part with Hannibal, should now sink in spirits when every thing is going on happily and prosperously?

If I wished to define Tom Thurnall by one epithet, I should call him specially an ungodly manwere it not that scriptural epithets have, now-a-days, such altogether conventional and official meanings, that one fears to convey, in using them, some notion quite foreign to the truth.

Time had drained my poetical vein, and I have not yet been able to indite an epithet on her merits and virtues, for she had an eminent share of both.

It is certain that Rosa Taddei gives as fine thoughts as are to be met with in most poets, and I am very much tempted to incline to Forsyth's opinion that Homer himself was neither more nor less than an improvisatore, the Greek language affording nearly as many poetic licences as the Italian, and the faculty of heaping epithet on epithet being common in both languages.

From the sea side it rises in the shape of an amphitheatre; a view therefore taken from the sea gives the best idea of its grandeur and of the magnificence of its buildings, for everybody on beholding this grand spectacle must allow that this city well deserves its epithet of Superba.

His objective pieces are too exclusively objective, his subjective too exclusively subjective; and where he deals with natural imagery in these latter, he is too apt, as in "Eleanore," to fall back upon the old and received method of poetic diction, though he never indulges in a commonplace or a stock epithet.

" "Why did they call him the Lone Wolf, do you know?" "I believe some imaginative Parisian journalist fixed that sobriquet on him, in recognition of the theory upon which, apparently, he operated.

Whatever may have been the original excuse for the sobriquet, the derogatory one exists no more.

These ideas appear in his letter to Mademoiselle de l'Enclos, written to her under the sobriquet of "Leontium," and which is translated and appended to this correspondence.

He gave the name "Leontium" to Mademoiselle de L'Enclos, and the letter was written to her under that sobriquet.

Now wasn't this enough to exhaust the patience of a female Joba sobriquet Doña Victorina always applied to herself when put out with any one!

Misnomer N. misnomer; lucus a non lucendo [Lat.]; Mrs. Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em &c (neologism) 563 [Obs.]; Hoosier. nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre

These, with Dr. Maginnunder the sobriquet of "Morgan O'Dogherty,"Hoggthe Ettrick Shepherd,De Quinceythe Opium-eater,Thomas Mitchell, and others, were the principal writers in Blackwood.

The sobriquet, "na Raheenach," is really a kind of tribal designation.

"The Dook" was the sobriquet of the person he had come to see; and it was by this name that Nick inquired for him, gravely, of the landlord.

The very thought of the little drawling outsider who had delighted in his sobriquet of "the Dook" made Hilliard feel sick, and he opened wide all the windows and doors when the contemptible creature went out of the house.

He was the friend and benefactor of his race, giving them what gold is ever too poor to buythe benefit of a good example and a noble life, and earned for himself the sobriquet by which he was called, "honest Luzerne."

The sobriquet derived its point from the application he made of the principle involved in this oft-repeated proposition.

The sobriquet, "na Raheenach," is really a kind of tribal designation.

The first Grimaldi celebrated on the stage, appeared at Paris about the year 1735, when his athletic force and extraordinary agility procured him the sobriquet of "Jambe de Fer," or iron-leg.

P. 162. 'Domini canes,' 'The Lord's hounds,' a punning sobriquet of the Dominican inquisitors, in allusion to their profession.

The Good Dame was the sobriquet which Lord Francis had invented to concealor to displayhis courteous disdain of the ideals represented by Mrs. Sardis, that pillar long established, that stately dowager, that impeccable doyenne of serious English fiction.

DAWKINS (Jack), known by the sobriquet of the "Artful Dodger."

DODGER (The Artful), the sobriquet of Jack Dawkins, an artful thievish young scamp, in the boy crew of Fagin the Jew villain.

This habit earned him a sobriquet pocket Navhind Times.

His sobriquet of "Pipes," which his skill upon the flute at this time gave him, adhered to him through life among his intimates in the army.

He was soon alongside, and with great satisfaction we at once recognized our strange friend of yesterday, who amongst the boat's crew, went by the sobriquet of Yampee.

On the contrary, they understand at once when a charge is exorbitant; and a trader who tries his shrewdness upon them is sure to receive an expressive sobriquet, which ever after clings to him.

JUPITER CARLYLE, a sobriquet given to the REV.

The exile had too well concealed, even from her, his sobriquet and his calling, and Hortense at last grew weary of failure.

"Weel, Mr. M., if you had tried my plan, and come doon to your knees, ye wad maybe hae come mair speed!" There once lived in Cupar a merchant whose store contained supplies of every character and description, so that he was commonly known by the sobriquet of Robbie A'Thing.