Chapter Remois to Revolt of Islam of R by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Representative Men, in a series of lectures by R. W. Emerson (1849); e.g.—

Plato (of a philosopher).

Swedenborg (of a mystic).

Montaigne (of a sceptic).

Shakespeare (of a poet).

Napoleon (of a man of the world).

Goethe (of a writer).

Republican Queen (The), Sophie Charlotte, wife of Frederick I. of Prussia.

Resolute (The), John Florio, philologist. He was the tutor of prince Henry (1545–1625).

(This “Florio” was the prototype of Shakespeare’s “Holofernês.”)

Resolute Doctor (The), John Baconthorp (*-1346).

Guillaume Durandus de St. Pourcain was called “The Most Resolute Doctor” (1267–1332).

Restless (Sir John), the suspicious husband of a suspicious wife. Both are made wretched by their imaginings of the other’s infidelity, but neither has the slightest ground for such suspicion.

Lady Restless, wife of sir John. As she has a fixed idea that her husband is inconstant, she is always asking the servants, “Where is sir John?” “Is sir John returned?” “Which way did sir John go?” “Has sir John received any letters?” “Who has called?” etc.; and, whatever the answer, it is to her a confirmation of her surmises.—Murphy: All in the Wrong (1761).

Retaliation, a trial of wit, mainly between Garrick and Goldsmith.

Garrick, in 1774, wrote in the form of an epitaph—

Here lies poor Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,
Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.

To this Goldsmith replied, and called Garrick

…a salad; for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree.

(In Goldsmith’s retaliating verses, several other persons are introduced, as Burke, Cumberland, Macpherson, Reynolds, and some others.)

Return of the Druses (The), a tragedy by R. Browning (1848). The love of Aneal is divided between adoration for the Hakeem, and her love for Djabal whom she believes to be the incarnate God. (See Druses, p. 302.)

Reuben Dixon, a village schoolmaster of “ragged lads.”

’Mid noise, and dirt, and stench, and play, and prate,
He calmly cuts the pen or views the slate.
   —Crabbe: Borough, xxiv. (1810).

Reuben and Seth, servants of Nathan ben Israel, the Jew at Ashby, a friend of Isaac and Rebecca.—Sir W. Scott: Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).