Bobadil

Forster as Kitely and Dickens as Captain Bobadil were much on a par; but Forster preserved his identity, even through his loftiest flights of Macreadyism; while poor little Dickens, all painted in black and red, and affecting the voice of a man of six feet, would have been unrecognisable for the mother that bore him!

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

Since his [_Henry Woodward, 1717-1777_] time the part of "Bobadil" has never been justly performed.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

I do not intend to possess any one with an exact knowledge of my lodging; though, as Bobadil says, “I care not who knows it, since the cabin is convenient.”

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

The general idea of the character is familiar to our comic dramatists after the Restoration — and may be said in some measure to be compounded of Captain Fluellen and Bobadil; — but the ludicrous combination of the SOLDADO with the Divinity student of

A Legend of Montrose 2008

What quarrel have you against the admiral, friend Bobadil?

Westward Ho! 2007

Captain Bobadil observes, ‘so generously minded’ — anything but a man of honour and a gentleman; not sufficiently gratifying his nice sense of humour by the witty scattering of flour and rotten eggs on obtuse civilians, but requiring the further excitement of

Reprinted Pieces 2007

To be on terms of intimacy with an author or an actor has been an object of delight to many a young man; actually to hob and nob with Bobadil or Henry the Fifth or Alexander the Great, to accept a pinch out of

The Virginians 2006

I do not know about the antagonistic forces in the Doric order; in Fleeming they were plain enough; and the Bobadil of these affairs with Dr. Bell was still, like the corrector of Italian consuls, ‘a great child in everything but information.’

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

The first, without doubt, would be the hypochondriacal, out of solicitude for their health, or the frugal, out of care for their raiment; the second, it is equally plain, would include the fop, the fool, and the Bobadil.

Lay Morals 2005

Bobadil now “go down” so well as in the East, — I called aloud for my supper.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003