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Ercles|ˈɜːkliːz|
Bottom's pronunciation of ‘Hercules’; ‘Ercles vein’ is a stock quotation. (See Mids. N.D. i. ii. 31, 42.)
1898G. F. R. Henderson Stonewall Jackson II. xv. 100 Even the Northern press made sport of Pope's ‘'Ercles vein’, and the Confederates contrasted his noisy declamation with the modesty of Lee and Jackson. 1901Standard 9 Apr. 4/7 Mr. J. B. Glacier, in his opening speech, was in the Ercles vein, and dwelt on perils overcome and triumphs gained. 1922J. Buchan Huntingtower ii. 36 The Ercles vein—‘God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world.’ No good, Mr McCunn. 1927T. S. Eliot in T. Newton tr. Seneca's Trag. I. p. xxxiii, This is the proper Ercles bombast, ridiculed by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Nashe. |