=Grandison=, (_Sir Charles_), the hero of a novel by S. Richardson, entitled _The History of Sir Charles Grandison_. Sir Charles is the beau ideal of a perfect hero, the union of a good Christian and perfect English gentleman; but such a “faultless monster the world ne’er saw.” Richardson’s ideal of this character was Robert Nelson, reputed author of the _Whole Duty of Man_ (1753). Like the old lady mentioned by Sir Walter Scott, who chose _Sir Charles Grandison_ because she could go to sleep for half an hour at any time during its reading, and still find the personages just where she left them, conversing in the cedar parlor.—_Encyc. Brit._, Art. “Romance.” Grandison is the English _Emile_, but an Emile completely instructed. His discourses are continual precepts, and his actions are examples. Miss Byron is the object of his affection.—_Editor of Arabian Nights Continued_, iv. 72. =Grandmother.= Lord Byron calls the _British Review_ “My Grandmother’s Review,” and jestingly says he purchased its favorable criticism of _Don Juan_. For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish, I’ve bribed “My Grandmother’s Review,” _The British_; I sent it in a letter to the editor, Who thanked me duly by return of post.... And if my gentle Muse he please to roast.... All I can say is—that he had the money. Byron, _Don Juan_, i. 209, 210 (1819). =Grane= (2 _syl._), Siegfried’s horse, whose speed outstripped the wind. =Grane´angowl= (_Rev. Mr._), chaplain to Sir Duncan Campbell, at Ardenvohr Castle.—Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_ (time Charles I.). =Granger= (_Captain_), in love with Elizabeth Doiley, daughter of a retired slop-seller. The old father resolves to give her to the best scholar, himself being judge. Gradus, an Oxford pedant, quotes two lines of Greek, in which the word _panta_ occurs four times. “Pantry!” cries old Doiley; “no, no; you can’t persuade me that’s Greek.” The captain talks of “refulgent scintillations in the ambient void opake; crysalic spheroids, and astifarous constellations;” and when Gradus says, “It is a rant in English,” the old man boils with indignation. “Zounds!” says he; “d’ye take me for a fool? D’ye think I don’t know my own mother tongue? ’Twas no more like English than I am like Whittington’s cat!” and he drives off Gradus as a vile impostor.—Mrs. Cowley, _Who’s the Dupe?_ _Granger._ (See EDITH.) =Grangousier=, father of Gargantua, “a good sort of a fellow in his younger days, and a notable jester. He loved to drink neat, and would eat salt meat” (bk. i. 3). He married Gargamelle (3 _syl._) daughter of the king of the Parpaillons, and had a son named Gargantua.—Rabelais, _Gargantua_, i. 3 (1533).