Orator Henley, the Rev. John Henley, who for about thirty years delivered lectures on theological, political, and literary subjects (1692-1756).
*** Hogarth has introduced him into several of his pictures; and Pope says of him:
Imbround with native bronze, lo! Henley stands,
Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands,
How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!
How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung!...
Oh, great restorer of the good old stage,
Preacher at once and zany of thy age!
Oh, worthy thou of Egypt’s wise abodes;
A decent priest where monkeys were the gods!
The Dunciad (1742).
Orator Hunt, the great demagogue in the time of the Wellington and Peel administration. Henry Hunt, M.P., used to wear a gray hat, and these hats were for the time a badge of democratic principles, and called “radical hats” (1773-1835).
Orbaneja, the painter of Ube´da, who painted so preposterously that he inscribed under his objects what he meant them for.
Orbaneja would paint a cock so wretchedly designed that he was obliged to inscribe under it, “This is a cock.”—Cervantes, Don Quixote, II. i. 3 (1615).
Orbilius, the schoolmaster who taught Horace. The poet calls him “the flogger” (plagōsus).—Ep. ii. 71.
*** The Orbilian Stick is a birch rod or cane.
Ordigale, the otter in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox, i. (1498).