=Napoleon of the Drama.= Alfred Bunn, lessee of Drury Lane Theatre (1819-1826) was so called; and so was Robert William Elliston, his predecessor (1774-1826, died 1831). =Napoleon of Mexico=, the emperor Augusto Iturbidê (1784-1824). =Napoleon of Oratory=, W. E. Gladstone (1809- ). =Napoleon of Peace=, Louis Philippe of France (1773, reigned 1830-1848, died 1850). =Narcissa=, meant for Elizabeth Lee, the step-daughter of Dr. Young. In Night ii. the poet says she was clandestinely buried at Montpelier, because she was a Protestant.--Dr. Young, _Night Thoughts_ (1742-6). _Narcissa_, Mrs. Oldfield, the actress, who insisted on being rouged and dressed in Brussels lace when she was “laid out.” (See NANCY.) “Odious! In woolen? ’Twould a saint provoke!” Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke. “No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs and shade my lifeless face; One would not, sure, be frightful when one’s dead! And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.” Pope, _Moral Essays_, i. (1731). =Narcisse=, an airy young Creole. He has boundless faith in himself, and a Micawberish confidence in the future. He would like to be called “Papillon,” the butterfly; “’Cause thass my natu’e! I gatheth honey eve’y day fum eve’y opening floweh, as the bahd of Avon wemawked.”--George W. Cable, _Dr. Sevier_ (1883). =Narcissus=, a flower. According to Grecian fable, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a fountain, and, having pined away because he could not kiss it, was changed into the flower which bears his name.--Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, iii. 346, etc. Echo was in love with Narcissus, and died of grief because he would not return her love. Narcissus fair, As o’er the fabled fountain hanging still. Thomson, _Seasons_ (“Spring,” 1728). ⁂ Glück, in 1779, produced an opera called _Echo et Narcisse_. =Narren-Schiff= (“_The ship of fools_”), a satirical poem, in German, by Brandt (1491), lashing the follies and vices of the period. Brandt makes knowledge of one’s self the beginning of wisdom; maintains the equality of man; and speaks of life as a brief passage only. The book at one time enjoyed unbounded popularity. =Narses= (2 _syl._), a Roman general against the Goths; the terror of children. The name of Narses was the formidable sound with which the Assyrian mothers were accustomed to terrify their infants.--Gibbon, _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, viii. 219 (1776-88). _Narses_, a domestic slave of Alexius Comnēnus, emperor of Greece.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus). =Naso=, Ovid, the Roman poet, whose full name was Publius Ovidius Naso. (_Naso_ means “nose.”) Hence the pun of Holofernes: And why Naso, but for smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy?--Shakespeare, _Love’s Labor’s Lost_, act iv. sc. 2 (1594).