Strahan, Dr., vicar of Islington and friend of Johnson, whose Prayers and Meditations he edited Streatham Park, the home of the Thrales. At St. John's Gate in Clerkenwell, the Gentleman's Magazine was long printed Simon, Duc de, ambassador to Spain and the writer of amusing and Valuable memoirs. An uncompromising aristocrat Sweden gained Western Pomerania Swerga, the Hindu Olympus an the summit of Mount Meru TAMERLANE, the great Asiatic conqueror (1336-1405), whose empire reached from the Levant to the Ganges Tanais, the river Don in Eastern Russia Tate, Nahum, succeeded Shadwell in 1690 as poet-laureate; mainly remembered by his collaboration with Nicholas Brady in a metrical version of the Psalms Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, whose search for his father was only successful when he returned home. Fenelon, the great French divine (1651-1715), wrote of his adventures Thales, flourished c. 600 B.C., and held that water was the primal and universal principle, Thalia, the muse of Comedy and one of the three Graces Theobalds, a Hertfordshire hamlet where James I. had a beautiful residence, originally built by Burleigh Thiebault, Professor of Grammar at Frederic's military school Thirlby, Styan, Fellow of Jesus Colleges Cambridge. He edited Justin Martyr's Works and contributed to Theobald's Shakespeare with acumen and ingenuity (c. 1692-1753)
Thraso, a braggart captain in Terence's Eunuch Three Bishoprics, those of Lorraine, Metz, and Verdun taken from the Germans by Henry II. of France in 1554 and recovered in 1871
Thundering Legion, the Roman legion which overcame Marcomanni in 179 A.D., their extreme thirst having been relieved by a thunderstorm sent in answer to the prayers of Christian soldiers in its ranks Thurtell, John, a notorious boxer and gambler (b. 1794) who was hanged at Hertford on Jan. 9, 1824, for the brutal murder of William Weare, one of his boon companions Tickell, Thomas, a politician, minor poet, and occasional contributor to the Spectator and the Guardian (1686-1740)
Tillotson, John Robert. Trained as a Puritan, he conformed to the Episcopal Church at the Restoration and ultimately became Archbishop of Canterbury a man of tolerant and moderate views like Baxter and Burnet, and unlike Collier Tilly, Johann Tserklaes, Count of, the great Catholic general of the Thirty Years War; mortally wounded at Rain in 1632
Tiresias, in Greek mythology a soothsayer on whom Zeus conferred the gift of prophecy in compensation for the blindness with which Athens had struck him Treatise on the Bathos, "The Art of Sinking in Poetry," a work projected by Arbuthnot, Swift, and Pope, and mainly written by the last-named Treaty of the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, 1659
Trissotin, simpering literary dabbler in Moliere's Les Femmes Savantes Turgot, a French statesman 727-81) who held the doctrines of the philosophe party and was for nearly two years manager of the national finances under Louis XVI.
Two Sicilies, the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples Tyers, Tom, author of a Biographical Sketch of Doctor Johnson. It was a remark of Johnson's that Tyers described him the best VAUCLUSE, a village in S.E. France, twenty miles from Avignon where Petrarch lived for sixteen years Verres, the Roman governor of Sicily (73-71 B.C.), for plundering which island he was brought to trial and prosecuted by Cicero Vico, John Baptist, Professor of Rhetoric at Naples and author of Principles of a New Science, a work on the philosophy of history (d. 1744)
Victor Amadeus of Savoy, soldier and statesman (1655-1732) His sons-in-law were Philip V. and the Duke of Burgundy Vida, an Italian Latin poet (c. 1480-1566)
Vida et Sannazar, eminent modern Latin poets of the early sixteenth century Villars, Louis, Duc de, French marshal, defeated at Ramillies and Malplaquet (d. 1734), Vinegar Bible, published at Oxford in; 1717; in it the headline of Luke xx. reads "vinegar," an error for "vineyard,"
Vision of Theodore, set Johnson's Miscellaneous Works (for the "Genealogy of Wit," see Special", NO. 35; for the "Contest between Rest and Labour," Rambler, No. 33)
Vitruvius, contemporary with Julius Caesar and author of a famous work on Architecture Vossius, Gerard, Dutch philologist and friend of Grotius; the historian of Pelagianism (1577-1649)
WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Gloucester, friend of Pope, and author of the Divine Legation of Moses and other theological and legal works (1698-1779)
Wild, Jonathan, a detective who turned villain and was executed for burglary in 1725; the hero of one of Fielding's stories Williams, Archbishop of York (and opponent of Laud) in the time of Charles I.; Vernon, Archbishop of York, 1807. The tenure of the See of York seems to be the only parallel Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, Ambassador to Berlin (1746-49).
His satires against Walpole's opponents are easy and humorous (d. 1759)
Will's. See Button's Windham, Rt. Hon. William, Secretary of War under Pitt and again in 1806. In his Diary is an account of Johnson's last days (1750-1810)
Windsor, poor Knights of, a body of military pensioners who reside within the precincts of Windsor Castle Witwould, Sir Wilful. Set Congreve's The Way of the World Wronghead, Sir Francis, Vanbrugh and Cibber's The Provoked Husband XIMENES, Cardinal, statesman, and regent (1436-1517)
ZADIG, the title-character of a novel by Voltaire, dealing with the fatalistic aspect of human life Zephon, the cherub sent with Ithuriel by Gabriel to find out the whereabouts of Satan after his flight from hell Zimri in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel stands for the second Duke of Buckingham (for the original see 3 Kings xvi. 9)
