=Philip Ogden=, lover and hero in Blanche Willis Howard's _One Summer_. He
is nearly blinded by the point of Leigh's umbrella at their first
meeting, and after an idyllic courtship they are wedded (1875).

=Philip Quarl=, a castaway-sailor, who becomes a hermit. His "man Friday"
is a chimpanzee.--_Philip Quarl_ (1727).

=Philip's Four Daughters.= We are told, in _Acts_ xxi. 9, that Philip, the
deacon or evangelist, had four daughters which did prophesy.

Helen, the mother of great Constantine,
Nor yet St. Philip's daughters, were like thee [_Joan of Arc_].

Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 2 (1589).

=Philippe=, a parched and haggard wretch, infirm and bent beneath a pile
of years, yet shrewd and cunning, greedy of gold, malicious, and looked
upon by the common people as an imp of darkness. It was this old villain
who told Thancmar that the provost of Bruges was the son of a serf on
Thancmar's estates.--S. Knowles, _The Provost of Bruges_ (1836).

=Philippe Egalit['e]=, (4 _syl._), Louis Philippe, duc d'Orl['e]ans
(1747-1793).

=Philipson= (_The elder_), John, earl of Oxford, an exiled Lancastrian,
who goes to France disguised as a merchant.

_Arthur Philipson_, Sir Arthur de Vere, son of the earl of Oxford, whom
he accompanies to the court of King Ren['e] of Provence.--Sir W. Scott,
_Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Phil'isides= (3 _syl._), Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).

It was the harp of Phil'isides, now dead....
And now in heaven a sign it doth appear,
The Harp well known beside the Northern Bear.

Spenser, _The Ruins of Time_ (1591).

[Asterism] _Phili[p] Sid[ney]_, with the Greek termination, makes
_Phili-sides_. Bishop Hall calls the word _Phil-is'-ides_: "Which sweet
Philis'ides fetched of late from France."

=Philistines=, a title complacently bestowed, in England and America, by
the advance-guard in literature and art, on the Conservatives. The
French equivalent is "les bourgeois."

Demonstrative and offensive whiskers, which are the special
inheritance of the British Philistines.--Mrs. Oliphant, _Phoebe,
Junr._, i. 2.

=Phillips= (_Jessie_), the title and chief character of a novel by Mrs.
Trollope, the object being an attack on the new poor-law system (1843).

=Phillis=, a drama written in Spanish, by Lupercio Leonardo, of
Argensola.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_ (1605-15).

_Phillis_, a pastoral name for a maiden.