William Barnes Rhodes

William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826) was a dramatist and banker. In 1810, he wrote a burlesque, Bombastes Furioso, which achieved great popularity.

Quotes

• Who dares this pair of boots displace,
  Must meet Bombastes face to face.
  • Bombastes Furioso (1810), Act i, scene 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let none but he these arms displace, Who dares Orlando's fury face", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part ii, chapter lxvi; Ray, Proverbs; Thomas, English Prose Romance, page 85.

• Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore
  A hungry lion give a grievous roar;
  The grievous roar echoed along the shore.
  Artax. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore
  Another lion give a grievous roar;
  And the first lion thought the last a bore.
  • Bombastes Furioso (1810), Act i, scene 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• You know you haven't got a singing face.
  • Bombastes Furioso (1810).