Bob Acres is a character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals.
Acres was a coward, whose “courage always oozed out at his finger ends”. He was popularly played in the 19th century by American actor Joseph Jefferson. (Jefferson named a Louisiana train station after this character; see Bob Acres, Louisiana.)
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“Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion. It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.”
—Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter and director, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)
“Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)