Il croit ce qu’il imagine.
French Proverb.
Touthope (Mr.), a Scotch attorney and clerk of the peace.--Sir W. Scott, Rob Roy (time, George I.).
She ordered the fellow to be drawn through a horse-pond, and then to be well rubbed down with an oaken towel.--The Adventure of My Aunt.
Tower of Hunger (The), Gualandi, the tower in which Ugolino with his two sons and two grandsons were starved to death in 1288.--Dantê, Inferno (1300).
Tower of London (The), was really built by Gundulphus, bishop of Rochester, in the reign of William I., but tradition ascribes it to Julius Cæsar.
Ye towers of Julius, London’s lasting shame.
Gray, The Bard (1757).
Tower of Vathek, built with the intention of reaching heaven, that Vathek might pry into the secrets seen by Mahomet. The staircase contained 11,000 stairs, and when the top was gained, men looked no bigger than pismires, and cities seemed mere bee-hives.--Beckford, Vathek (1784).
Townley Mysteries, certain religious dramas; so called, because the MS. containing them belonged to P. Townley. These dramas are supposed to have been acted at Widkirk Abbey, in Yorkshire. In 1831, they were printed for the Surtees Society under the editorship of the Rev. Joseph Hunter, and J. Stevenson. (See Coventry Mysteries.)