Jonathan Oldbuck

Thus, the character of Jonathan Oldbuck, in the Antiquary, was partly founded on that of an old friend of my youth, to whom I am indebted for introducing me to Shakespeare, and other invaluable favours; but I thought I had so completely disguised the likeness that his features could not be recognized by any one now alive.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

Le Moine, "The Explorations of Jonathan Oldbuck," Quebec, 1889, based upon documents printed by "T.C." in _L'Abeille_, Nov. and Dec.,

A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong

James Carlyle, the Annandale mason, was as vivid as Jonathan Oldbuck himself.

The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905

Carlyle, the Annandale mason, was as vivid as Jonathan Oldbuck himself.

The Life of Froude 1894

The great triumph of _Vanity Fair_ -- the great triumph of modern fiction -- is Becky Sharp: a character which will ever stand in the very foremost rank of English literature, if not with Falstaff and Shylock, then with Squire Western, Uncle Toby, Mr. Primrose, Jonathan Oldbuck, and Sam Weller.

Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877

'Antiquary,' under the eye of Jonathan Oldbuck, who was himself once in love but has come to see that he was a fool for his pains.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

CAX'ON _ (Old Jacob_), hairdresser of Jonathan Oldbuck ( "the antiquary") of Monkbarns.

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

He was the Jonathan Oldbuck of Devonshire, and especially of Dartmoor, -- but without that decision of character which enabled Oldbuck to keep his womenkind in some kind of subjection, and probably enabled him also to see that his weekly bill did not pass their proper limits.

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship Anthony Trollope 1848

So saying, Mr. Oldbuck opened a drawer of the cabinet of his ancestor Aldobrand, and produced a bundle of papers tied with a black ribband, and labelled, --- Examinations, etc., taken by Jonathan Oldbuck, J. P., upon the 18th of February, 17 ---;

The Antiquary 1845

For, gentle reader, if thou hast ever beheld the visage of a damsel of sixteen, whose romance of true love has been blown up by an untimely discovery, or of a child of ten years, whose castle of cards has been blown down by a malicious companion, I can safely aver to you, that Jonathan Oldbuck of

The Antiquary 1845