=Ungrateful Guest= (_The_), a soldier in the army of Philip of Macĕdon, who had been hospitably entertained by a villager. Being asked by the king what he could give him in reward of his services, the fellow requested he might have the farm and cottage of his late host. Philip, disgusted at such baseness, had him branded with the words, THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST. =Unique= (_The_), Jean Paul Richter, whose romances are quite unique, and belong to no school (1763-1825). =Universal Doctor=, Alain de Lille (1114-1203). ⁂ Sometimes Thomas Aquinas is also called _Doctor Universālis_ (1224-1274). =Unknown= (_The Great_), Sir Walter Scott, who published the Waverley novels anonymously (1771-1832). =Unlearned Parliament= (_The_). The parliament convened by Henry IV., at Coventry, in Warwickshire (1404), was so called because lawyers were excluded from it. =Unlucky Possessions=, the gold of Nibelungen and the gold of Tolosa, Graysteel, Harmonia’s necklace, Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, etc. =Unready= (_The_), Ethelred II. (*, 978-1016). ⁂ “Unready” does not mean “never ready or prepared,” but lacking _rede_, _i.e._, “wisdom, judgment or kingcraft.” =Unreason= (_The abbot of_), or FATHER HOWLEGLAS, one of the masquers at Kennaquhair.--Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth). =Unwashed= (_The Great_), the common people. It was Burke who first applied this term to the artizan class. =Upholsterer= (_The_), a farce by Murphy (1758). Abraham Quidnunc, upholsterer, in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, being crazed with politics, so neglects his business for the affairs of Europe that he becomes a bankrupt; but, at this crisis, his son, John, who had married the widow of a rich planter, returns from the West Indies, pays off his father’s debts, and places him in a position where he may indulge his love for politics without hampering himself with business. =Ura´nia=, sister of Astrophel (_Sir Philip Sidney_), is the countess of Pembroke. Urania, sister unto Astrophel, In whose brave mind, as in a golden coffer, All heavenly gifts and riches lockèd are, More rich than pearls of Ind. Spenser, _Colin Clout’s Come Home Again_ (1595). _Urania_, daughter of the king of Sicily, who fell in love with Sir Guy (eldest son of St. George, the patron saint of England).--R. Johnson, _The Seven Champions, etc._, iii. 2 (1617). =Ura´nian Venus=, _i.e._, “Celestial Venus,” the patroness of chaste and pure love. Venus _pandêmos_ or _popularis_ is the Venus of the animal passion called “love.” Venus _etaira_ or _amīca_ is the Venus of criminal sensuality. The seal was Cupid bent above a scroll, And o’er his head Uranian Venus hung And raised the blinding bandage from his eyes. Tennyson, _The Princess_, i. (1830).