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_Rosetta_, a bright, laughing little coquette, who runs away from home because her father wants her to marry young Meadows, whom she has never seen. She enters the service of Justice Woodc.o.c.k. Now, it so happens that Sir William Meadows wishes his son to marry Rosetta, whom he has never seen, and he also runs away from home, and under the name of Thomas becomes gardener to Justice Woodc.o.c.k. Rosetta and young Meadows here fall in love with each other, and the wishes of the two fathers are accomplished.--Isaac Bickerstaff, _Love in a Village_ (1763).
In 1786 Mrs. Billington made her _debut_ in ”Rosetta,” at once dazzling the town with the brilliancy of her vocalization and the flush of her beauty.--C. R. Leslie.
=Rosetta [Belmont]=, daughter of Sir Robert Belmont. Rosetta is high-spirited, witty, confident, and of good spirits. ”If you told her a merry story, she would sigh; if a mournful one, she would laugh. For _yes_ she would say 'no,' and for _no_, 'yes.'” She is in love with Colonel Raymond, but shows her love by teasing him, and Colonel Raymond is afraid of the capricious beauty.--Edward Moore, _The Foundling_ (1748).
=Rosiclear and Donzel del Phebo=, the heroine and hero of the _Mirror of Knighthood_, a mediaeval romance.
=Rosinan'te= (4 _syl._), the steed of Don Quixote. The name implies ”that the horse had risen from a mean condition to the highest honor a steed could achieve, for it was once a cart-horse, and was elevated into the charger of a knight-errant.”--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. ii. 1 (1605).
Rosinante was admirably drawn, so lean, lank, meagre, drooping, sharp-backed, and raw-boned, as to excite much curiosity and mirth.--Pt. I. ii. 1.
=Rosiphele= (3 _syl._), princess of Armenia; of surpa.s.sing beauty, but insensible to love. She is made to submit to the yoke of Cupid, by a vision which befalls her on a May-day ramble.--Gower, _Confessio Amantis_ (1393).
=Rosmonda=, a tragedy in Italian, by John R. Ruccellai (1525). This is one of the first regular tragedies of modern times. _Sophonisba_, by Trissino, preceded it, being produced in 1514, and performed in 1515.
=Rosny= (_Sabina_), the young wife of Lord Sensitive. ”Of n.o.ble parents, who perished under the axe in France.” The young orphan, ”as much to be admired for her virtues, as to be pitied for her misfortunes,” fled to Padua, where she met Lord Sensitive.--c.u.mberland, _First Love_ (1796).
=Ross= (_Lord_), an officer in the king's army, under the duke of Monmouth.--Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).
_Ross_ (_The Man of_), John Kyrle, of Whitehouse, in Gloucesters.h.i.+re. So called because he resided in the village of Ross, Herefords.h.i.+re. Kyrle was a man of unbounded benevolence, and beloved by all who knew him.
? Pope celebrates him in his _Moral Essays_, iii. (1709).
=Rosse= (2 _syl._), the sword which the dwarf Elberich gave to Otwit, king of Lombardy. It was so keen that it left no gap where it cut.
Balmung, the sword forged by Wieland, and given to Siegfried, was so keen that it clove Amilias in two without his knowing it, but when he attempted to move he fell asunder.
This sword to thee I give; it is all bright of hue, Whatever it may cleave, no gap will there ensue.
From Almari I brought it, and Rosse is its name.
_The Heldenbuch._
=Rostocostojambedanesse= (_M. N._), author of _After Beef, Mustard_.--Rabelais, Pantagruel, ii. 7 (1533).
=Rothmar=, chief of Tromlo. He attacked the va.s.sal kingdom of Croma, while the under-king, Crothar, was blind with age, resolving to annex it to his own dominion. Crothar's son, Fovar-Gormo, attacked the invader, but was defeated and slain. Not many days after, Ossian (one of the sons of Fingal) arrived with succors, renewed the battle, defeated the victorious army, and slew the invader.--Ossian, _Croma_.
=Rothsay= (_The duke of_) prince Robert, eldest son of Robert III. of Scotland.
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