Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
Called me wessel, Sammy—a wessel of wrath.
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
Drummond—Sonnet. XII.
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Dryden—Upon the Death of Lord Hastings.
L.76.
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Ecclesiastes. VII. 1.
There be of them that have left a name behind
them.
Ecclesiasticus. XLIV. 8.
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Ficum vooamus ficum, et scapham scapham.
We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff.
Erasmus—Oolbquy. Philetymus et Pseudocheus. Also in Dilucalum Philyphnus.
In his Adajia he refers to Aristophanes as
user of a like phrase. Quoted by Lucian—
Quonij Hist. sit. conscribend. 41. Also
in his Jov. Trag. 32. Found also in
Plutarch—Apopthegms. P. 178. (Ed,
1624) Old use of same idea in Ta verner—
Garden of Wysdom. Pt. I. Ch. VI. (Ed.
1539)
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| text = <poem>The blackest ink of fate was sure my lot,
And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
Fielding—Amelia. II. 9.
I cannot say the crow is white,
But needs must call a spade a spade.
Humphrey Gdjtord—A Woman's Face is Full
ofWiles.
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"Whose name was writ in water! " What large
laughter
Among the immortals when that word was
brought!
Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after,
High toward the topmost heaven of heavens
up-caught!
"All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare
said,
And Dante nodded his imperial head.
R. W. Gilder—Keats.
My name may have buoyancy enough to float
upon the sea of time.
Quoted by Gladstone. Eton Miscellany.
Nov. 1827.
One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die.
Fitz-Greene Halleck—Marco Bozzaris.
A nickname is the hardest stone that the
devil can throw at a man.
Quoted by Hazlitt—Essays. On Nicknames.
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| text = Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
Holmes—The Boys. (Of S. F. Smith}})
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| text = <poem>My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills
My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain,
Whose constant cares were to increase his store,
And keep his only son, myself, at home.
John Home—Douglas. Act II. Sc. 1. L.
42.
And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
Leigh Hunt—Abou Ben Adhem.
He left the name, at which the world grew pale,
To point a,moral, or adorn a tale.
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| work = Vanity of Human Wishes.
L. 221.
Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde,
But boldly nominate a spade a spade.
Jonson—Poetaster. Act V. 3.
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| text = <poem>Have heard her sigh and soften out the name.
Walter Savage Landor—Gebir. Bk. V.
L. 145.
Stat tnagni nominis umbra.
He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
Lucan—Pharsalia. I. 135. Junius adapted
this as motto affixed to his Letters. (Stat
nominis umbra) Claudianus—Epigrams.
42. gives "Nominis umbra manet veteris."
Clarum et venerabile nomen.
An illustrious and ancient name.
Lucan—Pharsalia. LX. 203.
Out of his surname they have coined an
epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian
name a synonym for the Devil.
Macaulay—On Machiavelli. 1825.
But unto you that fear my name shall the
Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his
wings.
Malachi. IV. 2.
The name that dwells on every tongue,
No minstrel needs.
Don Jorge Manrique—Coplas de Manrique.
St. 54. Longfellow's trana
My name is Legion.
Mark. V. 9.
I, a parrot, am taught by you the names of
others; I have learned of myself to say, "Hail!
Ocsar!"
Martial—Epigrams. Bk. Xr7. Ep. 73.
"What is thy name, faire maid?" quoth he.
"Perfelophon, O King," quoth she.
Thos. Percy—Reliques. King Cophetua and
the Beggar-Maid.
