Pope, The Dunciad, iii. 19 (1728).
Taylor (Dr. Chevalier John). He called himself “Opthalminator, Pontificial, Imperial and Royal.” He died, 1767. Hogarth has introduced him in his famous picture, “The Undertaker’s Arms.” He is one of the three figures atop, to the left hand of the spectator; the other two are Mrs. Mapp and Dr. Ward.
Teacher of Germany (The), Philip Melancthon, the reformer (1497-1560).
Teachwell (Mrs.), a pseudonym of Lady Ellinor Fenn, wife of Sir John Fenn, of East Dereham, Norfolk.
Teague (1 syl.), an Irish lad, taken into the service of Colonel Careless, a royalist, whom he serves with exemplary fidelity. He is always blundering, and always brewing mischief, with the most innocent intentions. His bulls and blunders are amusing and characteristic.--Sir Robert Howard, The Committee (1670), altered by T. Knight into The Honest Thieves.
Who...has not a recollection of the incomparable Johnstone [Irish Johnstone] in “Teague,” picturesquely draped in his blanket, and pouring forth his exquisite humor and mellifluous brogue in equal measure.--Mrs. C. Mathews, Tea Table Talk.
Tearless Battle (The), a battle fought B. C. 367, between the Lacedæmonians and the combined armies of the Arcadians and Argives (2 syl.). Not one of the Spartans fell, so that, as Plutarch says, they called it “The Tearless Battle.”
⁂ Not one was killed in the Abyssinian expedition under Sir R. Napier (1867-8).
Tears--Amber. The tears shed by the sisters of Pha´ëton were converted into amber.--Greek Fable.
According to Pliny (Natural History, xxxvii. 2, 11), amber is a concretion of birds’ tears, but the birds were the sisters of Meleāger, who never ceased weeping for his untimely death.