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 slave
Nephelococcygia, 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, Westminster
o 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 death
Odoacer, a Hun, who became emperor, and was assassinated by his
colleague Theodoric the Ostrogoth in 493
Oldmixon, 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 Furioso
Ortiz, eighteenth-century historian, author of Compendio de la Historia
de Espana
Osborn, 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