Rowe, Nicholas, dramatist and poet laureate (1715), editor of a monumental edition of Shakespeare
Rymer, Thomas, Historiographer-royal, and the compiler Of Foedera—a collection of historical documents concerning the relations of England and foreign powers (1639-1714)
Ryswick, Peace Of, by this treaty (in 1697) Louis XIV. recognised William as King of England, and yielded certain towns to Spain and the Empire
SALVATOR ROSA, a Neapolitan author and artist (1615-73); “the initiator of romantic landscape,”
Satirist . . . Age, small, libellous, and short-lived weekly papers in the year 1838
Saxe, led the invading Austrian army into Bohemia, and afterward became a marshal of the French army, defeating the Duke of Cumberland at Fontenoy, 1745
Scamander, a river of Troas, in Asia Minor
Scapin, the title-character of one of Moliere’s comedies; a knavish valet who fools his master
Scott, Michael, a twelfth-century sage who gained a large reputation as a wizard and magician
Scriblerus Club a literary coterie, founded in 1714, which had only a short life, but produced Swift’s Gulliver