Chapter Errua to Essays and Reviews of E by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Escobar y Mendoza, a Spanish casuist, who said, “Good intentions justify crime,” whence the verb escobarder, “to play the fox,” “to play fast and loose.”

The French have a capital name for the fox, namely, M.L’Escobar, which may be translated the “shuffler,” or more freely “sly boots.”—Daily News, March 25, 1878.

Escotillo [i.e. Little Michael Scott], considered by the common people as a magician, because he possessed more knowledge of natural and experimental philosophy than his contemporaries.

Esdale (Mr.), a surgeon at Madras.—Sir W. Scott: The Surgeon’s Daughter (time, George II.).

Esil or Eisel, vinegar. John Skelton, referring to the Crucifixion, when the soldiers gave Christ “vinegar mingled with gall,” says—

Christ by crueltie Was nayled to a tree …
He dranke eisel and gail, To redeme vs withal.
   —Skelton: Colyn Clout (time, Henry VIII.).

Esings, the kings of Kent. So called from Eisc, the fathe r of Hengist, as the Tuscans receive their name from Tuscus, the Romans from Romulus, the Cecropidæ from Cecrops, the Britons from Brutus, and so on.—Ethelwerd: Chron., ii.

Eskdale (lord), in Disraeli’s novel of Coningsby (1844), is said to be designed for lord Lonsdale.

Esmeralda, a beautiful gipsy-girl, who, with tambourine and goat, dances in the place before Notre Dame de Paris, and is looked on as a witch. Qassimodo conceals her for a time in the church, but after various adventures she is gibbeted.—Victor Hugo: Notre Dame de Paris.

Esmond (Henry), a chivalrous cavalier in the reign of queen Anne; the hero of Thackeray’s novel called Esmond (1852; time, queen Anne).

Esplandian, son of Amadis and Oriana. Montalvo has made him the subject of a fifth book to the four original books of Amadis of Gaul (1460).

The description of the most furious battles, carried on with all the bloody-mindedness of an Esplandian or a Bobadil [Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour].
   ——Encyc. Brit., art. “Romance.”

Espriella (Manuel Alvarez), the apocryphal name of Robert Southey. The poet-laureate pretends that certain “letters from England,” written by this Spaniard, were translated by him from the original Spanish (three vols., 1807).

Essay on Criticism, by Pope. A poem running to 724 lines in heroic couplets. It abounds with well- known lines and happy expressions.

Essay on Man, a poem by Pope, in heroic couplets, and divided into four books or epistles. Like the Essay on Criticism, it is full of lines familiar to every educated Englishman (1732–1734).

Essays and Reviews, by six clergy, men and one layman of the Church of England, published in 1860. The writers were Dr. Temple, Dr. Rowland Williams, professor Baden Powell, professor Jowett, Wilson, Patteson, and Goodwin. The book was condemned by the bishops in Convocation, 1864.

The Oxford Tract Movement began in 1833.