Marli, a royal (now presidential) country-house ten miles west from ParisMarsilio Ficino, an eminent Italian Platonist, noted for his purity of life and for his aid to the Renaissance (1433-99)Mason William, friend and biographer of Gray; wrote Caractacus and some odes (1725-97)Massillon, Jean Baptiste, famous French preacher, Bishop of Clermont, a master of style and persuasive eloquence.(1663-1742)
Master of the Sentences, Peter Lombard, a disciple of Abelard and one of the most famous of the "Schoolmen" of the twelfth centuryMaximin, surnamed Thrax--"the Tracian." Roman Emperor, 235-38.
His cruel tyranny led to a revolt in which he was murdered by his own soldiersMeillerie, on the Lake of Geneva, immortalised by J.J.RousseauMerovingians, a dynasty of Frankish kings in the sixth and seventh centuries A.D.
Metastasio, Pietro Trapassi, an Italian poet (1698-1782)Mina, a famous guerilla chief in the Peninsular war, and (in 1834) against Don Carlo (1781-1834).Empecinado (="covered with pitch") a nick-name given to Juan Matin Diaz, an early comrade of MinaMirabel and Millamont, the Benedick and Beatrice of Beaumont and Fletcher's Wildgoose ChaseMithridates, king of Pontus (B.C.120-63), famous for his struggle against Rome, and the general vigour and ability of his intellectMoliere's doctors (see L'Amour Medecin (II.iii.), Le Malade Imaginaire, and Le Medicin malgre lui)Mompesson, Sir Giles, one of the Commissioners for the granting of monopoly licensesMonks and Giants, "These stanzas are from a poem by Hookham Frere, really entitled Prospectus and specimen of an inteneded national Work...relating to King Arthur and his Round Table,"Monmouth Street, now called Dudley StreetMorgante Maggiore, a serio-comic romance in verse, by Pulci of Florence (1494)Morone, an Italian cardinal and diplomatist (1509-80)Murillo, Spain's greatest painter (1618-82)Murphy, Arthur, an actor-author, who, besides writing some plays, edited Fielding, and published an Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson (1727-1815)Murray, Lindley, the Pennsylvania grammarian (1745-1826), who settled near York, and there produced his Grammar of the English Language NARSES the Roman general (d.573) who drove the Goths out of Rome.In his youth he had been a slaveNephelococcygia, i.e."Cuckoo town in the cloud"--a fictitious city referred to in the Birds of Aristophanes,Newdigate and Seatonian poetry, verse written in competition for prizes founded by Sir R..Newdigate and Rev.Thos.Seaton at Oxford and Cambridge respectively, Dodsley (ib.) was an honest publisher and author who brought out Poems by Several Hands in 1748,Nugent, Dr., one of the original members and a regular attendant at the meetings of the Literary Club OCTOBER CLUB, a High Church Tory Club of Queen Anne's time, which met at the Bell Tavern, Westminstero Daphnis K.T.L., "Daphnis went into the waters; the eddies swirled over the man whom the Muses loved and the nymphs held dear" (Theocritus, Idylls, i.).An allusion to Shelley's deathOdoacer, a Hun, who became emperor, and was assassinated by his colleague Theodoric the Ostrogoth in 493Oldmixon, John, a dull and insipid historian (1673-1742), roughly handled by Pope in the Dunciad (ii.283)Orlando Furioso, Ariosto's (1471-1533) great poem of chivalry suggested by the Orlando Innamorato of Boiardo (c.1430-94).
Alcina is a kind of Circe in the Orlando FuriosoOrtiz, eighteenth-century historian, author of Compendio de la Historia de EspanaOsborn, John, a notorious bookseller who "sweated" Pope and Johnson among other authors (d.1767)Otho, Roman emperor (69 A.D.) The only brass coins bearing his name were struck in the provinces, and are very rare PADALON, the Hindu abode of departed SpiritsPaestum, ancient Posidonia, mod.Pesto, 22 miles S.E.from Salerno, 471Pantheon, a circular temple in Rome, erected by Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus, and dedicated to the gods in general: now a church and place of burial for the illustrious Italian deadPaoli, the Corsican general (1796-1807) who, failing against the might of France, made his home in England, and was chaperoned by BoswellParnell, Thomas, Archdeacon of Clogher, satirist and translator.
He was a sweet and easy poet with a high moral tone; friend of Addison and Swift (1679-1718)Parson Barnabas, Parson Trulliber (see Fielding's Joseph Andrews)Pasquin, Antony, a fifteenth-century Italian tailor, noted for his caustic witPaulician Theology originated in Armenia, and flourished c.660-970 A.D.Besides certain Manichee elements it denied the deity of Jesus and abjured Mariolatry and the sacramentsPescara, Marquis of, an Italian general who betrayed to the emperor, Charles V., the plot of Francesco Sforza for driving the Spaniards and Germans out of ItalyPeter Martyr, a name borne by three personages.The reference here is to the Italian Protestant reformer who made his home successively in Switzerland, England, Strasburg, and Zurich (d.
1562)