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	Rake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A rake is a stock character, a man who wastes his (usually inherited) fortune on "wine, women, and song," incurring lavish debts in the process.
		The rake became the butt of moralistic tales in which his typical fate was debtor's prison, venereal disease, or, in the case of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, insanity in Bedlam.
		The rake is also frequently a cad: a man who seduces a young woman and impregnates her before leaving, often to her social or financial ruin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rake (451 words)

	Rake (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rake, a stock character in a play or movie, a man of high society with loose morals
		For machinery and gates, "raked" means slanted; for example, the angle of the steering post of a bicycle to the vertical is its "rake angle".
		Rake is a guitar playing technique, where play one or more strings muted before the intended notes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rake_(disambiguation) (185 words)

	RAKE - LoveToKnow Article on RAKE
		The word rake has been used since the 17th century in the sense of a man of a dissolute or dissipated character.
		In military and naval use to rake means to enfilade, to fire so that the shot may pass lengthwise along a ship, a line of soldiers, entrenchments, andc.
		This is a shortened form of the earlier rake-hell, apparently in common use in the 16th century.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RAKE.htm (3762 words)

	Rake (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A rake is a character in a play or movie.
		The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth.
		In poker and related multi-player gambling, a rake is a tax that the house takes on players' bets on each other.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rake_%28disambiguation%29 (3762 words)

	Rake (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A rake, a stock character in a play or movie, a man of high society with loose morals
		The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth
		Look up rake in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raking (122 words)

	Rake (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A rake, a stock character in a play or movie, a man of high society with loose morals
		The Rake's Progress is an English opera by Igor Stravinsky based on a series of illustrations by William Hogarth
		Raking fire is fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raking (125 words)

	Video Game Character Contest - Page 95 - The Coming Soon! Boards
		In the poker game of life, women are the rake.
		Video Game Character Contest - Page 95 - The Coming Soon!
		Comic Book Character Tournament / Video Game Cover Contest / Video Game Baddies Tournament
	www.comingsoon.net /forums/showthread.php?s=fc65bedf81f543430f2c32f803da34a1&t=34795&page=95&pp=25 (319 words)

	William Congreve
		The "rake" (from "rake-hell") is a type of Restoration comedy character we have not yet encountered in early literature except for John Wilmot, the earl of Rochester and perhaps the living model for "Mr.
		Obviously, he is trading in a subgenre of this New-Comedy style drama that other writers have been working in for some time before, setting his audience's expectations for the behaviors of all the main character types.
		lick here to see William Hogarth's famous morally didactic series of engravings, "The Rake's Progress." Click here to see a modern British production's costumes and set designs for William Etheredge's Man of Mode, another Restoration comedy.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/william_congreve.htm (319 words)

	Boards O' Magick: Steven Erikson - Gardens of the Moon - Review
		An indication of how confused I was with Gardens of the Moon is that I have no recollection of Ganoes Paran even being in the book, let alone being a main character......the only characters I remembered as being important were Apsalar, Fiddler, Whiskeyjack, Tattersail, and of course the mysterious and very cool Anomander Rake.
		An indication of how confused I was with Gardens of the Moon is that I have no recollection of Ganoes Paran even being in the book, let alone being a main character......
		Rake's purpose, at least in Gardens, is to be cool and wack people with his big ass sword and sometmies turn into a huge freaking dragon and eat them alive!
	sorcerers.net /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=16;t=000516;p=0 (1401 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
		Gouverneur Morris has been overlooked, surmises Brookhiser (America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918), because he was among "the solid rather than the glittering." If so, Morris had a more penetrating mind, a more buoyant disposition and a more lusty character than most of his contemporaries.
		To most people who read of the era of the founding fathers, Gouverneur Morris is at best a peripheral character, mentioned in passing while the spotlight featured the bigger names of Washington, Adams, Hamilton, et al.
		Morris was generally a peripheral character in the Revolutionary Era, but he did play a significant role in the drafting of the Constitution.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743223799 (1790 words)

	Info and facts on 'Stock character'
		To call the character a rake calls attention to his promiscuity and wild spending of money; to call the character a cad implies a callous seducer who coldly breaks his victim's heart.
		The modern interpretation of this character is often "The Stripper (also Whore or Hooker) with a Heart of Gold".
		Hooker with a heart of gold (additional info and facts about Hooker with a heart of gold) or the Tart with a Heart, outwardly tough and hard, hiding a heart of gold underneath.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stock_character.htm (1543 words)

	Restoration Comedy
		Also referred to as the Comedy of Manners because the chief characters are usually members of high society, the Restoration comedy tends to feature recurring types- "the graceful young rake, the faithless wife, the deceived husband, and perhaps, a charming young heroine who is to be bestowed in the end on the rake" (Krutch, 2).
		Following the political and social turmoil of the English Civil War, the Restoration Age was characterized by a sense of loss and cultural disillusion coupled with efforts to restore social stability and cohesion.
		The rake-heroes and their friends do express the Hobbesian views of freedom to follow natural impulses and their raillery against marriage is due to it often being seen as a restriction on these impulses, all the more since divorces were practically impossible to obtain (Birdsall, 35).
	www.cyberpat.com /shirlsite/essays/restor2.html (5314 words)

	Amazon.com: Bleachers: Books: John Grisham
		He and his former teammates sit in the bleachers at the high school stadium waiting for Rake to die, drinking beer and reminiscing.
		With Bleachers John Grisham departs again from the legal thriller to experiment with a character-driven tale of reunion, broken high school dreams, and missed chances.
		From that point on Rake was done with the town, and got to Rakes head.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385511612?v=glance (2494 words)

	Amazon.com: Moviegoer: Books: Walker Percy
		"The Moviegoer" is a thoughtful and a thought-provoking book that should be read and then re-read, slowly and carefully, for every paragraph is laden with insight into the character of its narrator, the character of its author and, ultimately, the character of ourselves.
		Binx Bolling, inveterate cinemaphile, contemplative rake and man of the periphery, tries hedonism and tries doing the right thing, but ultimately finds redemption (or at least the prospect of it) by taking a leap of faith and quite literally embracing what only seems irrational.
		The Moviegoer's essential argument is that human beings must be aware of all their actions, because aware or not, one's actions affect both himself and others.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394437039?v=glance (2481 words)

	Rake
		For other uses, see rake (disambiguation).'' The Tavern Scene from "The Rake's Progress" by William Hogarth A rake is a stock character, a man who seduces a young woman and impregnates her before leaving, often to her social or financial ruin.
		Closely related to the rake is the cad; to call the character a rake calls attention to his promiscuity and wild spending of money; to call the character a cad implies a callous seducer who coldly breaks his victim's heart.
	www.datamass.net /ra/rake.html (2481 words)

	Ragnarok Online - RPG Chat
		Finally Rake was in the Ragnarok world, or at least the character selection screen.
		However, the story is based on the Ragnarok Character in game, and the "Real" Character in the "Real" World.
		I am sorry for those lovers of the Ragnarok Manga series, but due to some copyright issues we can't play their roles.
	forums.rpgchat.com /showthread.php?t=46611 (1054 words)

	'Ice Age 2' lacks humor that fans were waiting for - Features
		It's a shame that the prickly, sardonic, teeth-gnashing Diego (voiced by the equally sardonic Denis Leary) is saddled with a lame character in which he must conquer his fear of water.
		Ellie brings along her possum "brothers," Crash and Eddie (voiced by Seann William Scott and Josh Peck from Nickelodeon's "Drake and Josh").
		Plow" and the classic "Cape Feare" episode in which Sideshow Bob steps on rake after rake after rake.
	www.dailyvidette.com /news/2006/03/30/Features/ice-Age.2.Lacks.Humor.That.Fans.Were.Waiting.For-1764619.shtml (626 words)

	Le père Goriot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the title character of Père Goriot does appear in the book, the character at the center of the action is Eugène Rastignac, a slightly idealistic and highly ambitious law student who lives in the same rundown boarding house in a seedy area of Paris as Goriot.
		Goriot is the butt of many jokes at his housemates’ expense, and when two well-dressed, beautiful young women are seen visiting him, the tenants suspect that despite his meager living circumstances, Goriot is a rake.
		Goriot explains to him the nature of his fractured relationships with his daughters, including how his sons-in-law have denied him the right to see them, and encourages Eugène to pursue his other daughter, the Mme Delphine de Nucingen, married to a harsh German baron who is himself carrying on at least one extramarital affair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Le_p%C3%A8re_Goriot (2416 words)

	Rake article - Rake stock character seduces folk etymology Hell etymology Norse - What-Means.com
		Rake article - Rake stock character seduces folk etymology Hell etymology Norse - What-Means.com
		An earlier form of the word was rake-hell, a form reshaped by folk etymology to mean someone who stokes the fires of Hell.
		The actual etymology of the word is from the Old Norse reikall, meaning "vagrant" or "wanderer;" this was borrowed into Middle English as rakel.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Cad (2416 words)

	POLIDORI-GGIII
		"The 'superfluous man' is a figure specific to the literature of nineteenth-century Russia, a character engendered by three Western literary progenitors: the Sentimental rake, the Gothic villain-hero, and the Fatal Man of the Romantics." Studies the character in four Russian and one English text: Karamzin's "Poor Liza," Pushkin's
		" Bloodlust and Ennui: The Literary Superfluous Man and the Crisis of the Aristocracy in Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose Fiction (Nikolai Karamzin, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Dostoevsky)."
	users.stargate.net /~ffrank/POLIDORI-GGIII.htm (353 words)

	The Andy Griffith Show Quotes
		Barney: "You know what your sheriff has in the trunk of his squadcar in case of emergency...a shovel and a rake"!
		Name: TOM "BRISCO" R. (character=Andy to Opie) Date: 02/20/01 16:50:25 MS Well, Winkin'll tell Blinkin', Blinkin'll tell Nod, Nod'll tell Barney, and Barney'll tell you.
		Name: melissa walker (character=otis) Date: 04/27/01 21:28:48 MD Barney's in jail, Barney's in jail.
	www.tagsrwc.com /interactive/MPQuotes/Chat.html (9680 words)

	William Congreve
		The "rake" (from "rake-hell") is a type of Restoration comedy character we have not yet encountered in early literature except for John Wilmot, the earl of Rochester and perhaps the living model for "Mr.
		Marwood, is motivated to aid Fainall, though she hates him, because she has been offended by Millamant's careless taunts about her age and by overhearing Mrs.
		Marwood convinces Lady W. that the press coverage of the trial would humiliate the family.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng211/william_congreve.htm (9680 words)

	Amazon.ca: Art Of Seduction: Books
		In Part 1, Greene, again paired with "packager" Joost Elffers (Play with Your Food), offers a straight-faced description of the nine types of seductive character, from the "Ideal Lover" to the "Rake." Elffers's contribution comes in the form of numerous quotes by famous contemporary and historical figures tucked into the side margins.
		Not surprisingly the author makes it clear that not everyone can be seduced in this way, that you need to find someone who has some large hole in their character ready to be exploited.
		Greene is so serious and his following cultlike, as he hosts and sponsors a website-- seducersworld-- from which I was just recently "banned" due to posting two (2) oppositional posts to his "teachings".
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0142001198 (1845 words)

	Rp Society Of Rv -> Quick Character descriptions.
		After his wife slumped to the floor he saw a boy who had heard the noise burst into the room wielding a farming rake preparing to lunge at him.The boy charged, but Durus was quick he struck out at the boy disarming him of his rake.
		Born an Ilyrian (Tribe in Pannonia) My father, soon to be Spurius Larcius Durus, was an ambitous and hardworking youth determined to join the Auxilaries.
		At that time the Roman government did not recognise marriages in the military below the rank of centurion, so when Durus's Auxilary was restationed to superess a growing revolt in Noricum He was forced to leave his wife and son behind.
	s3.invisionfree.com /RP_Society_of_RV/index.php?showtopic=40 (1845 words)

	product > 0375701966 > The Moviegoer
		We all have moments of heightened awareness or reality, usually doing "everyday" things.While I identified with the character's tendency to get lost, I found that the poor attention span Percy endowed his character, ironically invoked that same spaced out state in me. It was hard to keep my attention on this book.
		Binx Bolling, inveterate cinemaphile, contemplative rake and man of the periphery, tries hedonism and tries doing the right thing, but ultimately finds redemption (or at least the prospect of it) by taking a leap of faith and quite literally embracing what only seems irrational.
		Percy's The Movie-goer is a prime example of a truly forgettable book.
	www.ilectric.com /shop/info.cgi/0375701966 (1845 words)

	Rake - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		To call the character a rake calls attention to his promiscuity and wild spending of money; to call the character a cad implies a callous seducer who coldly breaks his victim's heart.
		During the Restoration period 1660-1700, the word was used in a glamorous sense: the Restoration rake is a carefree, witty, sexually irresistible aristocrat typified by Charles II's courtiers the Earl of Rochester and the Earl of Dorset, who combined riotous living with intellectual pursuits and patronage of the arts.
		After the reign of Charles II, and especially after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the cultural perception of the rake took a dive into squalor.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Rake (441 words)

	Don Juan Tenorio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This carefree character is much more conflicted than Molina's original, and highlights the manner in which the values, for which the archetypes stand, can be reinterpreted.
		In the first part of the drama, the hero is still the demonic rake who plagues the Sevilla of Molina.
		However, don Juan falls in love with doña Inez whose lovely beauty and virtue incites a change (however dubious) in don Juan's character.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Juan_Tenorio (274 words)

	Who's Who in the Brothers Karamazov
		Page references give first significant appearance of the character in the Everyman's Library edition.
		Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov: Karamazov's first son; the rake
		Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov: Karamazov's second son; the atheist intellectual
	www.angelfire.com /art/megathink/reviews/kara_who.html (317 words)

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