Adam through two books of _Paradise
Lost_, v. and vi. (1665).

_Raphael_, the guardian angel of John the Beloved.

[Asterism] Longfellow calls Raphael "The Angel of the Sun," and says
that he brings to man "the gift of faith."--_Golden Legend_
("Miracle-Play," iii., 1851).

_Raphael_ (_The Flemish_), Frans Floris. His chief works are "St. Luke
at His Easel," and the "Descent of the Fallen Angels," both in Antwerp
Cathedral (1520-1570).

_Raphael_ (_The French_), Eustace Lesueur (1617-1655).

=Raphael of Cats= (_The_), Godefroi Mind, a Swiss painter, famous for his
cats (1768-1814).

=Raphael of Holland= (_The_), Martin van Hemskerck (1498-1574).

=Raphael's Enchanter=, La Fornarina, a baker's daughter. Her likeness
appears in several of his paintings. (See FORNARINA.)

=Rapier= (_The_) was introduced by Rowland York in 1587.

He [_Rowland York_] was a Londoner, famous among the cutters in his
time for bringing in a new kind of fight--to run the point of a
rapier into a man's body ... before that time the use was with
little bucklers, and with broadswords to strike and never thrust,
and it was accounted unmanly to strike under the girdle.--Carleton,
_Thankful Remembrance_ (1625).

=Rare Ben.= Ben Jonson, the dramatist, was so called by Robert Herrick
(1574-1637).

=Raredrench= (_Master_), apothecary.--Sir W. Scott, _Fortunes of Nigel_
(time, James I.).

=Rashleigh Osbaldistone=, called "the scholar," an hypocritical and
accomplished villain, killed by Rob Roy.--Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time,
George I.).

[Asterism] Surely never gentleman was plagued with such a family as Sir
Hildebrand Osbaldistone, of Osbaldistone Hall. (1) Percival, "the sot;"
(2) Thorncliff, "the bully;" (3) John, "the gamekeeper;" (4) Richard,
"the horse-jockey;" (5) Wilfred, "the fool;" (6) Rashleigh, "the scholar
and knave."

=Ras'selas=, prince of Abyssina, fourth son of the emperor. According to
the custom of the country, he was confined in a private paradise, with
the rest of the royal family. This paradise was in the valley of Amhara,
surrounded by high mountains. It had only one entrance, which was by a
cavern under a rock concealed by woods, and closed by iron gates. He
escaped with his sister, Nekayah, and Imlac, the poet, and wandered
about to find out what condition or rank of life was the most happy.
After careful investigation he found no lot without its drawbacks, and
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