(_Sir Boyle_), which was "in two places at the same time."
The tale is that Sir Boyle Roche said in the House of Commons, "Mr.
Speaker, it is impossible I could have been in two places at once,
unless I were a bird." This is a quotation from Jevon's play, _The Devil
of a Wife_ (seventeenth century).

_Wife._ I cannot be in two places at once.

_Husband_ (Rowland). Surely no, unless thou wert a bird.

=Rochecliffe= (_Dr. Anthony_), formerly Joseph Albany, a plotting
royalist.--Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_ (time, commonwealth).

=Rochester= (_The earl of_), the favorite of Charles II., introduced in
high feather by Sir W. Scott in _Woodstock_, and in _Peveril of the
Peak_ in disgrace.

_Rochester_ (_Edward_). Brusque, cynical lover of _Jane Eyre_. Having
married in his early youth a woman who disgraces him and then goes
crazy, he shuts her up at Thornhill, and goes abroad. He returns to find
a governess there in charge of his child-ward; falls in love with her,
and would marry her, but for the discovery of his insane wife. _Jane
Eyre_ leaves him, and is lost to him until he is almost blind from
injuries received in trying to rescue his wife from burning Thornhill.
_Jane_ marries and ministers unto him.--Charlotte Bront['e], _Jane Eyre_
(1847).

=Rock= (_Dr. Richard_), a famous quack, who professed to cure every
disease. He was short of stature and fat, wore a white three-tailed wig,
nicely combed and frizzed upon each cheek, carried a cane, and halted in
his gait.

Dr. Rock, F.U.N., never wore a hat.... He and Dr. Franks were at
variance.... Rock cautioned the world to beware of bog-trotting
quacks, while Franks called his rival "Dumplin' Dick." Head of
Confucius, what profanation!--Goldsmith, _Citizen of the World_
(1759).

Oh! when his nerves had received a shock,
Sir Isaac Newton might have gone to Rock.

Crabbe, _Borough_ (1810).

=Rocket.= _He rose like a rocket, and fell like the stick._ Thomas Paine
said this of Mr. Burke.

=Roderick=, the thirty-fourth and last of the Gothic kings of Spain, son
of Theod'ofred and Rusilla. Having violated Florinda, daughter of Count
Julian, he was driven from his throne by the Moors, and assumed the garb
of a monk with the name of "Father Maccabee." He was present at the
great battle of Covadonga, in which the Moors were cut to pieces, but
what became of him afterwards no one knows. His helm, sword, and cuirass
we