Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1

ced by Scott in Marmion. His two sons fell in the ba

well, one of the family, forms the most interesting part of Scott's Lady of the La

h earl of Angus. He took part in the murder of Rizzio, and w

h was such a terror to the English that the women used to frighten their unruly children by saying they would "make the Black

sh, ye, lit

sh ye, do n

uglas shall

Tales of a Gra

Glenalvon, who hates the new favorite, persuades Lord Randolph that his wife is too intimate with the young upstart, and the two surprise them in familiar intercourse in a wood. The youth, being attacked, slays Glenalvon, but is in turn slai

er-in-law of Prince Robert, eldes

The duke was betrothed to Elizabeth, daughter of the earl of March, but the engage

grandson of the lady of Lochleven. George Douglas was devoted t

the Moors, and in the heat of battle cast the "heart," enshrined in a golden coffer, into the very thickest of the foe, saying, "The heart or death!" On h

ed in pieces and their contents to be thrown on the floor; he then staved in all the hogsheads of wine and ale upon this mass. To this he flung the dead bodies slain and some dead horses. The E

drossan, in Ayrshire, where Wallace had the dead bodies of th

c, in one of the most terrific adventures related in romance. In memory of this ev

ney under the promise of finding hidden wealth by a divi

ne which Lily mentions, who went with David Kamsay to search for hi

of Southey's novel ca

ing creature, desperately hen-pecked by a second wife; but madam oversho

appeared in "Sir Benjamin Dove," and showed

sse for Mr. Paterson. Lady Dove was a terrible termagant, and when scolding failed used to lament for "poor dear d

he elder brother Andrew. When, however, the wedding day arrived, Andrew was found to be a ma

terate petty shopkeeper is raised to the peerage under the title of "The Right Hon. Daniel Dowlas, Baron Duberly." But scarcely has he entered on his honors,

erly. She assumes quite the airs and ton of gentility, and te

, play at cricket, make punch, catch gudgeons, and dance." His mother says "he is the sweetest-tempered youth when he has

t of the dramatis person? ought to be in mourning ... The three "Dowlases" as relatives of the deceased Lord Duberly; "Henry Morland" as the heir-

Duke of Buckingham.-Sir W. Scott, Pe

unkard, who dies in his cups.

er of knowledge, a philosopher, a citizen of the world, and

ridge. So called from Sir George Downing, bar

(3 syl.), a knight of Arden;

r doth of

ais of Pa

third of

ton, Ny

se dracs will float like golden cups along a stream to entice bathers, but when the bath

d from the dragon killed there by Siegf

a star at Winchester, of wonderful magnitude and brightness, darting forth a ray at the end of which was a flame in the form of a dragon." Uther ordered two golden dragons

they

f the great

he state pavil

on, Gu

at Kennaquhair Abbey.-Sir W. Sc

"the devil," as the enemy of man.-Phinea

end of Sir Bevis. The ballad describes the dragon, its outrages, the flight of the inhabitants, the knight choosing his a

Dragon of Wantley, and calls the her

; but the place assigned for this achievement in the ballad given in Percy's Reliques is

als, it was here that Cedric (founder of the West

f Jason and ?êtês is a rep

killed the dragon, and sowed its teeth in the earth. From these teeth sprang up armed men called "Sparti,"

e golden fleece, he sowed its teeth in the ground, and armed men sprang up. Jason cast a

ag

n slain by Mithra.

ed dragon slain by Th

dragon sla

slain by Beowulf,

hich ravaged the Seine, sl

n slain by Apollo

dragon slain at Aix-la-

on slain by Fer

ial name. Many are denoted Re

ag, died at the early age of twenty-five. His elegy was written by F

the turf a

f my bet

thee but t

thee but

82

ury. It is called La Celestina, and is divided into twenty-one acts. The first act, which runs through fifty pages,

, a comedy by Nicholas Udal (before 1551, because mentioned

ry (iv. 32), gives 1551 as the date of this comedy; and Wright, in his Historia Histrionica, says it appeared in the

e French), Etienne,

k Drama, Thespis (

ish Drama, Lopêz d

ab's maids of honor.

money coined by William Wood, to whom George I. had given a patent. These letters (1724) stamped out this infamous job and caused

Drapier t

nation in

writ the "Drap

Verses on hi

le, and killed every one on both sides, "sparing neither friend no

as a little

terature a gr

Juan, xi.

wcansir, but found myself seized with a panic as Paris was when he pr

s that he wrote his Kubla Khan

uded in his dreams the reasoni

us, and sometimes by the "inner or divine soul." An Indian, having dreamt that his finger was

an, whose Pilgrim's Progress is sa

s of mediaeval romance, as, for example, the Romance of t

is described by Peachum as "an irregular dog, with an underhand way

The testy tailor imagining himself the victim of a hoax, throws his shears at his head, and Timothy, in revenge empties the bag of bull-frogs upon the clean floor of Bu

by actors,

bottle

, linseed tea

), everythin

ndy-and-wa

.), an egg beat

gum arabic

ON, ma

es'-foot jelly diss

ef-tea for breakf

ed wine (wi

RRY,

illiam),

.), draug

le too

says Ariel, meaning "I w

"devour the way," m

k to Mr. Pley

cott, Guy Mannering

was so called by the empress of Russia, because he had spies

a country which he discovered. It was said to lie south-west of Estotiland (Labrador), but neither Estotiland nor D

ot one from the other. They were the servants of two masters, also twins and the exact facsimiles of each oth

is borrowed from the

ng-woman of the Yellowleys.-Sir W. Sc

erve. It caused total blindness, but made no visible change in the eye. It is now known that this sort of blindness arises from obstruction in the capillary nerve-vessel

serene' hath qu

suffusio

dise Lost, i

Charles Dickens' unfini

d Bladderskate.-Sir W. Scott,

le "the alchemist" to know on which side to set the shop door, how to dispose the shelves so as to ensure most luck, on

1776], but David Garrick was fond of the part a

is garden," but his taste goes no further than a suburban tea-garden with leaden images, cockney fountains, trees cut into

d's foibles, and, like a wise woman, never rubs the ha

the nom de

called Steeple-chasing, appeared in the Gentleman's Ma

The Seasons) a druid, meaning a pastora

grave a

ns (1

who was only 23. The doctor is a pedant and antiquary, choleric in temper, and immensely bigo

f Kuli Chan with rapturous delight. There is a land of wonders; finely depopulated; gloriously laid waste; fields without a hoof to tread 'em; fruits without a hand to gather 'em: with such a c

alends. Patricius says: "Druid? pecuniam mut

by the Drui

r world to

dibras, ii

barter with the people upon bills of exchange, to

entertainment is giving a

. sc. 6), and Holinshead speaks of "Tom Drum his entertaynement, which is

Mr. Pocket. Drummle is a surly, ill-conditioned fellow, w

ch parliament assembled at

rring time, full

r it was so,

almost perpetual

Time (

our knights who attacked Britom

(Britomart) was o

and Blanda

l and Druon

oth his profess

ery Queen,

ins the idea of revenging his people and leading them back to Syria. To this end he gives out that he is Hakeem, the incarnate god, returned to earth, and soon becomes the leader of the exiled Druses. A plot is formed to murder the prefect of the isle, and to betray the Island to Venice, if Venice will supply a convoy

er of the sect was the hakêm B'amr-ellah (eleventh century), believed to be incarnate deity, and the last prophet who communicated between God and man. From this founder the head of the sect was called the hakêm, his residence being Deir-el-Kamar. During the t

oes this wizar

allah, the T

argon? He the

three hund

g, The Return

life was bound up with that of her t

busy about many things," or like "a Dryas living in a

troduce some of his novels by means of prefatory letters. The word is a synonym for a dull

Opitz, sometimes called "The Fat

ard at Lochleven Castle.-Sir W. S

ged himself into a tortoise, was taken by Dryopê into her lap, and became the fat

on of Guiomar.-Beaumont and Fletche

he courier. He bears such a strong likeness to Joseph Lesurques (act i. 1)

at Bordeaux, and agent the

t, one of the clerks of Osbaldistone, mercha

en only 15 years of age. Geoffrey says (British history, ix. 12); This prelate, who was primate of Britain, was so eminent for his piety, that he could cure an

report old C

rr

lyolbion, x

d, by Dubric t

hurch in Brita

of her altar-sh

rn was

The Coming

and then asked her to marry him. She replied she had no love for him, and asked for his sword. "He gave the sword to her tears," and she stabbed him to the heart. Duch

are thy rolling eyes ... I love thee not," said Morna; "hard is th

of Baron Bradwardine.-Sir W. Sc

tocratic"; so the gentlemen send to them their valets, as "the viscount de Jodelet," and "the marquis of Mascarille." The girls are delighted whith their titled visitors; but when the game had gon

ssumed by Harry Bertram.-Sir W. Scot

d family, and many accomplishments. He has served his country

s cousin Charlotte Rusport, but forbears proposing to her, because he is poor and she is rich. His grandfather's

h, and lovely. She is courted by Belcour the rich West Indian, to

th which he drank himself to death. Nie Kirk sold it for ￡12,000; and the earl of Dudley gave Messrs. Hunt and Roskell ￡30,000 for it. It

"Stewart" (q. v.), and the "Twin," have

ire. Next day, the sultana, out of jealousy, ordered that both Dudù and Juan should be stitched in a sack and cast in

eping Venus s

nsive more tha

thing was, bea

o

beit turned of

i. 42-4

her chamber, and turns the duenna out of doors, but in his impetuous rage he in reality turns his daughter out, and locks up the duenna. Isaac arrives, is introduced to the lady, elopes with her, and is duly married. Louisa flees to the convent of St. Catharine, and writes to her father for his consent to her marriage to the man of her choice; and Don Jerome su

places Sansjoy under the care of Escula'pius in the infernal regions (canto 4). The Red Cross Knight leaves the palace of Lucifera, and Duessa induces him to drink of the "Enervating Fountain;" Orgoglio then attacks him, and would have slain him if Duessa had not promised to be his bride. Having cast the Red Cross Knight into a dungeon, Orgoglio dresses his bride in most gorgeous array, puts on her hea

ction of 1569, as that wicked plot came to naught, and the false Duessa was now "an untitled queen." When Zeal had finished, an old sage named the Kingdom's Care (Lord Burghley) spoke, and opinions were divided. Authority, Law of Nations, and Religion thought Duessa guilty, but Pity, Danger, Nobility of Birth, and G

g Mrs. Bertram's funeral.-Sir W. Sco

ord duke." He was first a country cowboy, then a wig-maker's apprentice, and then a duke's servant. He could neither write

f Wellington, also called "

Carlos de Borja, count of Ficallo, and Donna Maria of Aragon, duchess of Villaher'mora, his wife, in whose right the count held ex

" [sic] doted on Marcelia his young bride, who amply returned his love. Francesco, Sforza's favorite, being left lord protector of Milan during a temporary absence of the duke, tried to corrupt Marcelia; b

. In act v. 1 we have "Men's injuries we write in brass," which brings to mind Shak

this drama, with some

Boiteux of Lesage. He was called duke from the splendor of his dress, the profusion of his table, and the m

for his pomposity; very boastful, and a thorough

(See DHU'

reas, a Spanish minorite of th

illage, with whom the don was once in love. Her real name was Aldonza Lorenzo. Her father was Lorenzo Corchuelo, a

air," says the

d the Elysian fie

arches, her

er cheeks two be

portals that gu

her neck is alab

ory, and her bo

-fallen

whom my tear

Dulcinea

e, I iii.

hakespeare, Love's L

called in Longfellow's Golden Legend,

is, the impenitent thief is called

a, the impenitent thief is called

smas, infelix

arm to Scare

paradise w

chose his l

roach the court. Of course, the compact was broken as soon as made and Dumain fell in love with Katharine. When however, he proposed marriage, Katharine deferr

in, a well-acc

irtue love fo

o most harm, le

t to make an i

in grace, tho'

s Labour's Lost, a

'oent, and father of Marinel

.), in 1845, publi

diem, or 60 pages of a romance. Thus he could copy 5 volumes octavo per month and 60 in a year, supposing that he did not los

from his taciturnity and dreaminess. Sometimes called "The Great Dumb Ox of Sicily

it almost ma

eaving the g

piles the p

r Lombard thr

ai

aught up and

of the Dumb O

, The Gold

lled "The Angelic Doctor," and the

d of), an exacting landlo

an to think so broad a pair of shoulders might bear an additional burden. He regulated, indeed, his management of his dependants a

ove with Jeanie Deans, but Jeanie marries the Presbyterian minister,

Sir Geoffrey Peveril.-Sir W. Scott, Pe

ses Ridicules, does not utter a single word, altho

er, and nephew of Lord Bladderskate.-Sir

n who came between Richa

ntly a ha

best strong

at could li

im up with

lf could do

il Travestie

old], Shropshire. Its milk was inexhaustible. One day an old woman, who had filled her pail, wanted to fill her sie

is still shown at Warwick Castle as o

. of England, because the betrothal of his daughter Elizabet

of Robert III. of Scotland. The earl of Douglas contrived to set aside this betrothal in favor of his own daughter E

t cousins. Sueno, king of Norway, having invaded Scotland, the command of the army was entrusted to Macbeth and Banquo, and so great was their success that only ten men of the invading army were left alive. After the b

ham.-Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.). Duncan (Duroch),

lfully derived from D

oor ignorant creature." The Lowland Scotch has donsie, "unfo

essor. The installation is celebrated by games, the most important being the "reading of two voluminous works, one in verse and the other in prose, without nodding." King Cibber is then taken to the temple of Dulness, an

. So called because he introduced into the language the

hes a sentence, but runs on in this style: "Dover is an odd sort of a-eh?" "It is a dingy kind of a-humph!" "The ladies will be happy to-eh?" He is the father of two daughters, Harriet and Kitty, whom

and pastry than doing the fine lady. She prefers cooking to croquet, and making the ke

er Teazle," "Sir David Dunder," and "Sir John Falstaff," and looke

ls (Sheridan); "Sir Peter Teazle,"

amatic piece entitled Our American Cousin. He is greatly characterized by his admiration of "Brother Sam," for his

d this character by his power of con

r W. Scott's novel of Quenti

y Queen Hortense, mother of Napoleon III., and called Partant po

me la pl

le plus

m he followed gave him his daughter to wife. T

la plu

an plus

. de Labor

Sir W. Scott in the introduction of The

off Oith'ona, daughter of Nuath (who was engaged to be mar

le. But the spear of Gaul pierced the gloomy chief; his swor

to have been born at Dunse, in Berwickshire,

r person (_-886). Erigena is sometimes called "Scotus the

of Professor William Edmonstoune Ayto

etals in his cell near Glastonbury Church. It was in this cell that, according to legend, Satan had a

wars." But observing that their countenances fell, Dunthalmo began to be suspicious of the young men, and shut them up in two separate caves on the banks of the Tweed, where neither "the sun penetrated by day nor the moon by night." Colmal (the daughter of Dunthalmo), disguised as a young warrior, loosed Calthon from his bonds, and fled with him to the court of Fingal, to crave aid for the lib

defied any woman to entangle him in matrimony; but he mistook Lady Bab Lardoon, a v

to see the wo

tangle me ...

irst glance I w

f her artifice

the Oa

t of Harancour (his ward) in the streets of Paris, for the sake of becoming possessor of his w

ries. So admirable was its temper that it would "cleave

rtê loved Belerma whom he served for seven years, and was then slain; but

anners, fa

mper, fier

wi

ants "to use the spade and flail," and five women-servants "to carry

oll and Kate, and D

oe and Jack, and Hum

-known

ns, Esther Summerson is play

friend, young Mirabel. Very bashful with ladies, and for ever sparring with Bisarre,

s cousin Malagi'gi. This sword and the horn

as also buried with him, and "T

imes called Mor'ini. Their capital was Du'rinum (Dorchester), and their territory extend

s on the Dor

lyolbion, x

sh guard, a company of archers in the pay of Louis XI., at Plessis les Tours, and saves the king in a boar-hunt. When Lèigeis is assaulted by insurgents, Quentin D

thullin, general of the Irish tribes.

t side of the

. The thin-man

fleet, bounding

nnal, among th

he [two] steeds

e vales. The wil

the strength of

y.-Ossian,

of detail and truthfullness to life:-For Portrai

Gerhard Douw, Terburg, Me

Ostade Brower

ema, Cuyp, Vanderneer (moonlig

es: Wouvermans

ces: Vandeveld

rs: Kalf, A. van Utrecht

ew York (1846), John Fanning Watson pays a

ess of Dutch

. Everything h

couring; dirt i

them, and dear

t was generally s

quisition. It w

well-furnished

er in shining s

than for use.

from the Germa

e been errone

oost fowls an

. As water dra

ot

the Duke of Argyll.-Sir W. Scott, H

g are celebrated dw

4 inches. One of J

small," says Athenaeos, "t

land (died 1764). BORUWLASKI (Count Joseph), 2 feet 4 inches. Die

rs. He could draw, write, thread needles, and play the hautboy. Fac-sim

exhibited with

Sleswig, 25 inches;

. One of the dwarfs of J

ess of Wales, mother of George II

t Palermo, 20 inches. Her skeleton is p

n), 2 feet 6 inches.

s. Born at Cavan. He was of e

rary with Boruwlaski. He was a native of France

oted portrait painter, and a page of the back-stairs in the court of Charles I. The

hance makes

did this ma

er (

hes. He was born at Oakham,

ustus. PHILE'TAS, a poet, so small that "he wore leaden sho

highs were not thicker than a man's thumb. He w

feet 6 inches. Na

Y (The

et at the age of 20. His father, mother, brothe

. Stratton; 25 inches; weight, 25 lbs. at the ag

feet 4 inches

yal dwarf o

us of an Egyptian dwarf "n

Clerimond from the dungeon of of Ferragus to the palace of King Pepin; and subsequently carried Valentine

of the neighborhood. In Sir W. Scott's novel so called, this imp is introduced under various aliases

nquished by Siegfried, who gets possession of his cloak of invisibili

family, but all his advice turns out evil, and all his aid is productive of trouble. The dwarf is meant for "t

r apothecary.-Sir W. Scott, Fair

s (real or t

ian dies! or See in what

Give the boy

Paetus, it i

(After asking how he had act

Henry). I pray yo

t this dying with cour

oresses). While there is life t

must sl

tu, Brute! (To Brutus

rd, into thy hands

emember! (To William Juxon

). Don't let poor Nelli

V. Ah!

h! I have done wrong. God pardon me! CHARLOTTE (The Princess). Yo

. Give Day R

nto Thy hands I c

obbima, Hobbima,

is to make what ha

pher). You may go home,

t where I am going, whether

ing, but feel a sort of d

ing man can do

going to heaven, and Va

death, my boy. They have deceived me.

on Dieu!

THE. Mo

justice and hated iniquity

Lord, into thy hands

S. Be

preserve

artery cea

have led a

to take my last voyage-

ngth to hold a pen, I would write down h

ie, I die unto

with a lass, and will go with

resign my spirit to God,

bless you, my dea

ow it i

ned his face to the wall; and twice crie

nter now into the

nk I should live for ever? (Then after a

I. A king shou

so! Henceforth among the

Louis XI. of France). Fi de l

ell, my children, for e

atetul traitors! (Sa

harles). I

ie to the sounds o

(the a

thus wi

thee, I do

but fools

espe

I hope my country

eu! La nation Fran

re you at Sedan?

nk God I have

lis artif

country. (This he said on the stage, it being a

O, my country,

RRO.

itself is but a

down the curtain,

ave the tomb green, do not cover it over with b

re growing plain and cl

s family.) SIDNEY (Algernon). I know that my

, we owe a cock

have loved God, my

he worst is,

into thy hands I

l be shot if I don'

. A king shoul

. I sti

nd). Can this last lon

e, and upon this poor nation! (This was sai

t! do they run alrea

(This to the priest who reminded him that he had accused the Princess Eliza

gne, Columbus, Lady Jane Grey, and Tasso, show that their words were alike. So with the before Augustus, Demonax, and Rabelais; the [**] before Lo

Phineas Fletcher (1633). "He nothing liked or praised." F

thief crucified with our Lord. The impe

smas, infelix

of a

e thief Di

s died im

some rings and bracelets, and showed her a chalice and a book of the Gospels, asking which she would have. The child chose the chali

the horse, and the boar were also borne as ensigns, but Marius abolished the

Pindar, a native of

and Duguesclin, constabl

s, Thomas Aqui'

ques Bénigne Bossuet, bi

y, a great astrologer, who maintained that th

g laird of Earnscliffe.-Sir W.

this drama the three authors were imprisoned "for disrespect to

Lord, He knows (as will shortly appear), that they belie me, and so I question not but they do others. The Lord alone, who is the searcher of all hearts knows, as I shall answer it

ero of Marryatt's se

g her." He says he is resolved in future to "follow no pleasure that rises above the degree of amusement." "When once a woman comes to reproach me with vows, and usage, and such s

hty ways," but never shows the slightest indication of ill-temper or jealousy

n, Dr. Cotton Mather lays stress upon the distinction drawn b

ce or a stupid senselessness under the hand o

, and so courteous and circumspect in his discourses, and so modest in his expressions, that it became a pr

la Marck, "The Wild Boar of Ardennes."-Sir

h estate. Before his fall he was called Aza'zel. The Koran says: "When We [God] said unto the angels, 'Worshi

rt, daughter of King Ryence of Wale

ing of England. He built Kaer-brauc [York], about the time that

k's powe

s her tow

lyolbion, v

(The Father of), Eusebi

s with the birth of Christ and concludes with t

ng Picrochole (3 syl.), by relating to them the fable of T

w; the cow was to have a calf; the calf was to be changed for a colt; and the man was to become a nabob;

r, Alnas-char.") Lafontaine has put it into verse, Perrette et le Po

in English also; but in Ossian echo is cal

ho perishes to save his master's childre

nslated this tal

r. She is the daughter of Intellect and Voleta (free-will), and ultimatel

t sung and crowned Eclecta's hymen with ten thousa

Christ's Trium

, the plot of which is borrowed from

Prince Arthur. His son Sir Key or Kay, was seneschal or steward of Arthur

ctor de Maris were

ther "of Sir Launcelot" o

d, it were hard for any tongue to tell the doleful complaints [lamentations] that he made for his brother. "Ah, Sir L

ves this name to a tract of Southern Virginia surveyed under his direction and vi

he cities of Richmond and Petersburgh, Va.)-

through the swindling transactions of General Scadder and General Choke. So dismal and dangerous was the place, that even Mark Ta

of Edenhall. The superstition is that if ever this goblet is lost or broken, there will be no more lu

n The Luck of Edenhall,

sal kings came with their fleets to pay him homage, and swear fealty to him by land and sea. The eight are Kenneth (king of Scots), Malcolm (of Cumberland), Maccus (of the Isles), and five Welsh prince

[Edgar] lived at mor

kings they rowed

lyolbion, x

r. He was disinherited by Edmund, natural so

Robert Wilks (1670-1732), and al

aid's Fountain." While Edgar is absent in France on State affairs, Sir William Ashton, being deprived of his office as lord keeper, is induced to promise his daughter Lucy in marriage to Frank Hayston, laird of Bucklaw, and they are married; but next morning, Bucklaw is f

Edgar is made

ert of Scotland.-Sir W. Scott, Fa

affairs, the lady is led to believe him faithless, and consents to marry the laird of Bucklaw; but she stabs

r W. Scott, Edgar is lost in the quicksands at Kel

s called "Mons. de Firmount," a corruption of Fairymount, in L

d, by Colly Cibber (1704.) Edith (Leete). Name of the two girls beloved and won by

Rollo and Otto, dukes of Normandy.-Beaumo

er recognized Robert Bruce, and being in the English interest a quarrel ensued. The abbot refused to marry the bridal pair amidst such discord. Edith fled and in the charac

the Unready" (thane of Conningsburgh).-S

dith became Mr. Dombey's second wife, but the marriage was altogether an unhappy one, and she eloped with Mr. Carker to Dijon, where she left him, having taken this foolish step merely

rd I., and attendant of Queen Berenga'ria. She married David, earl of Huntingdon (p

Lear) were in love with him. Regan, on the death of her husband, designed to marry Edmund

iel Byfield writes particulars of the revolt in the New Eng

, advice that

dros did atte

an's apparel,

opped at the thir

es, not ha

el Byfield.-An

ion in New E

te (See MO

of Bacchus, so called from Edo'nus, a mountain of Thr

es your bounty

coffing of th'

mn to the Na

s barracks.-Sir W. Scott, Coun

a young man who acts as his secretary, was one day caught prying into this chest, and Sir Edward's first impulse was to kill him; but on second thought he swore the young man to secrecy, and told him the story of the murder. Wi

eb Williams. "Williams" is called Wilford in

mind was alwa

commit the m

s when "Sir E

You may have

," he transpose

oticed in my ch

was convulsed

sentative Acto

hakespeare in his Richard II. (1597). Probably most reade

d by Sir W. Scott in his novel e

y W. Shirley (1640). The subject of

the battle [Cre

one. In this

umbers more th

o

an trus

ii

liam Tell.-Rossini, G

ith a great thirst for knowledge. He lived in Gothic days in

Edwin was n

t seemed to fix

ded not, nor g

pipe of rudes

ad, affectiona

ghed aloud, ye

ared and sighed,

a

wonderous wise,

m

e Minstrel,

nor power, but he had both wisdom and worth." Angelina loved him, but "trifled with him," and Edwin, in despair, left her and retired from the world. One day, Angelina, in boy's clot

ance between the two, Mr. Percy's ballad is taken from mine. I read my ballad to Mr. Percy, and he told me afterward

e between Edwin and the cottage. Edwin pined away, and being on the point of death, requested he might be allowed to see Emma. She came and said to him, "My Edwin, live for me;" but on he

ng in this, became the evil genius of the gentle earl. Ultimately, being sent to the court of King Arthur, he became quite a

not to persecute the servants of the Lord, both he and his friend Potito embraced Christianity, and received a standard from Michael the archangel himself. On one occasion, being taken captive, St. Efeso was cast into a furnace of fire, but received no injury; whereas those who cast him in were consumed by the flames. Ultimat

e. He himself assumed this "title" when he joined the revolutionary party, who

t with "according to law," i.e. "either to die the death," or else to "endure the livery of a nun, and live a barren sister all her life." Hermia refused to submit to an "unwished yoke," and fled from Athens with Lysander. Demetrius, seeing that Hermia di

kes the plot turn on a simi

ot at an apple placed on the head of his own son. Egil selected two arrows, and bei

c kings of Spain. She was very beautiful, but cold-hearted, vain, and fond of pomp. After the fall of Roderick, Egilona m

opula

oth; and they

rk for mocker

h human horro

erick, etc.,

wife of Bar'tolus, the covetous lawyer).-Beau

thurian romance. Sir Eglamour and Sir Pleindamour have no

ter of the duke of Milan, in her escape.-Sha

de of her cousin Valentine (brother of Orson). She

er at table, and fond of lap-dogs. Her dainty oath was "By Saint Eloy!" She "entuned the service swetely i

d by order of Philip II. of S

ire of Absalom and Ach

us [Holland]

ad

i. (1

mases, his successor. She was sent to Persia, as the bride of Cambyses, the king, but before their ma

of Memphis. Knowing he must die, he trie

ot, had I the

ptian thief at

what

elth Night, act

all the celebrated names within twenty leagues, and have no doubt Spain will one day be as proud of you as Greece was of the seven sages." After this, Gil Blas could do no less than ask the man to sup with him. Omelet after omelet was despatched, trout was called for, bottle followe

from Aleman's romance of

King Charles himself; but now admitted to be the production of Dr. John Gauden, who (aft

vereign is rather too theatrical for real nature, the language is too rhetorical and am

clasêts in answer to Dr.

n battle. It had 540 gates, each sufficiently wide to admit

n Prince of Powys-land.-Sir W. Scot

th "Charmion" upon the tragedy that has wrecked the world. The cause

umbent mass of

at once into a

surpassing bri

n the angels in

dge have no na

n Poe, Conversat

ion (

ld "the Dauntless," as his page! Subsequently her sex is discovered

Nentres of Carlot, and was by King Arthur the mother of Mordred

fe of Lot. This, however, is a mistake. Elain was the wife of Sir Nentres, and Morgause of Lot; and if Gawain, Agrawain, Gareth and Gaheris were [half] brothers of Mordred, as we are told

ntry," and the unwedded mother of Sir Galahad by Sir Launcelot

Brandeg'oris, by whom Sir

ne was the daughter of King Brandegoris, or the daugh

ly maid of Astolat" (Guildford), and knowing that Launcelot was pledged to celibacy, she pined and died. According to her dying request, her dead body was placed on a bed in a barge, and was thus conveyed by a dumb servitor

ersians. So called fr

mous dwarf of German r

outish constable.-Shakespear

I., alluded to by the Presbyterian

young man, th

see visions tha

apartment; fo

t to Rosamond's

the wanton, and

ueen Eleanor,

he place ...

pirits."-Sir W.

Commonw

coln, to Westminster. The three that still remain are Geddington, Northampton, and Waltham. Eleazar the Moor, insolent, bloodthirsty, lustful, and vindictive, like "A

he demon no sooner smelled than he abandoned the victim. He performed before the Emperor Vespasian; and to prove tha

eazar's ring ha

should have seen

o loud were the

l Blas, v.

rederick William of Br

other of Sir Launcelot and Sir Lionell. (See ELAIN.)

rds Rome. They were all massacred at Cologne by a party of Huns, and even to the prese

1000, we get 11,000. It is furthermore remarkable that the number of names known of these virgins is eleven; (1) Ursula, (2) Sencia, (3) Gr

ng, the pied piper of Hamelin, led forth the rats into the river Weser, and the ch

f Cambuscan', k

of enormous energy and masculine mind. At the death of her husband, she ruled over Mercia, and proceeded to fortify city after city, as Bridgenor

lida up-

ish powers victo

re thro' their th

into t

lyolbion, x

she loves passionately Henry Knight. He leaves her in pique, and she weds Lord L

ng, said she was not handsome enough for the king, but was rich enough to make a very eligible wife for himself. The king assented to the match, and became godfather to the first child, who was called Edgar. One day the king told his friend he intended to pay him a vi

dotus; Prêxaspês being the lady

herwood on the Lady Rowe'na.-Sir W.

amb, author of the Essays of

nd Tate, is Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington. As Eliab befrien

ask to do

e royal wand

l the turns of

Achitophel

n, i.e. "the god Eleleus" (3 syl). Bacchus was

rowned cups un

sts high o

olyolbion,

ad been deposed. Ten years afterwards, Arthgallo died, and Elidure was again advanced to the throne, but was deposed and imprisoned by his two younger brothers. A

n, crowned with a

raised, by bro

Tower ... but,

tish crown set on

lyolbion, v

as a poem on

ook Cherith, in concealment, ravens brought him

o prison, and when he was nearly starved to death, a cat appeared at the window-grating, a

he softest and most tender of the twelve, at the death of Jesus "sank

nk Lee Benedict's novel, My Daughter Elinor (1869). El'

to the North American India

write of Eliot

nothing. His c

nitude in the br

nd the rays of it

extensive."-

sti Americ

n Lewes"), author of Adam Bede (1858), Mill

Eliza in English, Did

eminisse pig

ei, dum spiritus

eneid, iv

dawned tha

neas from he

parting, ne

eral flames de

Shipwreck, i

asi'ma in all her solitary wanderings, and was her

eing exiled for some political offence, Elizabeth walked all the way from Siberia to

tell this." But she is a gentlewoman, with generations of gentlewomen back of her, and lives for Doro, her orphan ward, whom she has taught music. She loved his father, and for his sake-and his own-loves the boy. She works for him, hoards for him

ut working still."-Constance Fennimo

alère, by whom she had been "rescued from the waves." Valère turns out to be the s

ssa. They could never agree upon any sub

an), "Elissa" and "Peri

a frustrated elopement, by which she is apparently compromis

g, "Here, from my finger take this ring, a pledge of mercy; and whensoe'er you send it back, I swear that I will grant whatever boon you ask." After his condemnation, Essex sent the ring to the queen by the countess of Nottingham, craving that her most gracious majest

uced by Sir W. Scott in h

saint of queens, being herself a qu

d heroine of Susan Warner's sto

el Bush, although many grades above them in education and refinement. Betroth

ic of Lady Peveril.-Sir W. Scott, Pev

, farmer at the Heugh-foot. His

grandmother. John and H

bie's sisters.-Sir W. Scott,

if two or more, they indicate that stormy weather is about to cease. By the Italians these comazants are called the "fires of St. P

alba nautis s

axis agit

ti, fugiuntqu

s the stella indica

I saw St. E

mering lanterns

hould have foul

, The Gold

he patron sain

d is "The Chosen One," but the angels call h

spirit of heav

standing to th

ovely than the

he stars of he

being at the voi

The Messia

bably the "delicate oath" of Chaucer's prioress, who was a French scholar "after the scole of Stratfor

gobert, and a noted craftsman in gold and s

so a nonne,

miling was ful

othe was but

nterbury Ta

Lost, x. 525) for the dumb serpent or serpent which gives no warning of

C. 385-322); (2) Cicero, the Roman orator (B.C. 106-43); (3) Burke, the

When he heard that the battle of Chaerone′a was lost,

shonest

ea, fatal

eport that Ol

, Sonn

freely applied to John Quincy Adam

er Aurelolus, archbishop o

ld was "I hold by being held." He went attended by Pollic′ita (promise). Fully descr

an, champions her and vanquishes her accuser. Elsa weds him (Lohengrin) promising never to ask of his country

of Mucklestane Moor." This is "the black dwarf," or Sir Edward Maule

to give her life in sacrifice for him. Elsie volunteered to die for the prince, and he accompanied her to Salerno; but either the exercise, the excitement, or some charm, no matter what, had

instead of her husband, but was brought back by Hercul

tering black eyes. When angry, they are narrowed and gleam like diamonds, and "charm" after an unhuman fashion. She bit her cousin when a child, and the wound had to be cauterized. She is wild almost to savagery and she falls in love

religious novel of same na

nmont, the store-farmer of Charlie's Hope.-S

ket (the old fisherman at Musselcrag), and formerly servant to the c

induces Elvino to break off the match and promise marriage to Lisa; but as the truth of the matter breaks upon him, and he is convinced of Ami

vernor of Lisbon. She marries Coldio, the coxcomb

Colonel Lorenzo, by the aid of her father-confessor Dominick, but is always checkma

more generous ways. Her love being changed to hate, she engages Rollo to slay Pizarro in his tent; but the noble Peruvian spares his enemy, and mak

who basely deluded her into an amour with his va

an aids Enrichetta (Henrietta, widow of Charles I.) to escape, and Elvira, thinking he had eloped with a rival, temporarily loses her reas

os (afterwards Charles V. of Spain). Ernani was just on the point of marrying Elvira, when he

. Masaniello, to revenge his wrongs, heads an insurrection, and Alfonso with Elvira run for safety to the fisherman's hut, where they find Fenella, who promises to protect them. Masaniello,

She enters a convent, and tries to reclaim her profliga

d by Sir W. Scott in the T

a son of Titan and Aurora, reigned in Macedonia. Pliny tells us that Alexander, when he besieged

mythology. Eve or Embla was made of

eus (2 syl.), beloved by both Pal′amon and Ar

t fairer w

ilie on hire

han the May wit

Canterb

ght's Tal

rishman, one of

the British crown, accompanied him to Switzerl

xt, King Luciu

with her marty

lyolbion, x

y Jean Jacques Rousseau (1762). Emile is the author's ideal of a young man pe

the French f

usseau advises in his Emilius.-Conti

ls on Othello to ask his wife to show him the handkerchief, but she cannot find it, and Iago tells the Moor she has given it to Cassio as a love-token. At the death of Desd

ly, but not cast off; easy to commit small crimes, but qu

Queen Hermi′onê in prison.-Shake

ckle, in Smollett's novel called The

t Appiani, and beloved by the Prince Guastalla, who causes her lover's death on their wed

Prattle told his patient he had seen the colonel who looked remarkably well, and most certainly was maimed neither in his legs nor in his eyes. Emily now saw through the trick, and resolved to turn the tables on the colonel. For this end she induced Mdlle. Florival to appear en militaire, under the assumed n

The sultan is not unfrequently call "The Great Ameer," and the Ottoman empire is sometimes spoken of as "the country of the Great Ameer." W

given to the blood successors of Mahomet, and the latter to those who

. While engaged to Ham Peggotty (Dan'el's nephew) little Em'ly runs away with Steerforth, a handsome but unprincipled gentleman. Bein

ul, gentle, and loving wife of David, king of Nor

tship, but visits the "girl" for forty years, and gasps out in dying, "I aller

crater at Etna, that people might suppose the gods had carried him to heaven;

be d

d fondly int

edo

e Lost, iii. 46

e), Omar I., father-in-l

The) Peter the Calabrian, a

to say, "I am emperor not for myse

yer to Charles II.-Sir W. Scot

Deme′trius (son of King Antig′onus) She appears under the name

e was struck with a thunder-bolt, and covered with the heap of earth now called Mount Etna. The smo

ladi semiustum

c, ingentemque

tis flammam ex

ies mutet latus

iam, et coelum

eneid, ii

burning ci

ips of the

s, fill

low, En

y) was wounded in the battle of Mansoul, by False Delight, he and his wife ran to her assistance, and soon routed the foes who were hound

ten seen a p

eat, hang down h

eshêd with a w

her lively be

ide her silken

, The Purple Isl

forth deserts her. She emigrates with Dan'el Pegot'ty, and marries

es XII., by J.R.

yer in No Song No Supper,

covered the course of the moon. Hence it is fabled that the moon sl

the wise Endym

high top he was t

ring course; so ski

to say that he e

olyolbion,

ed. Hence the proverb, Endymionis somnum dormire. Jean Ogier de Gombaud wrote in French a romance or prose poem called E

is a peopl

ory with the

etic romance), and the criticism of the Quarterly

aleigh, who was for a time in disgrace with

that I heard

sighes of f

f whose mourn

ining with f

s Pastorals

Dieu, the

de Dieu, and a not inglorious flight took

igue, or "gentleman's magazine" of frail beau

. He was Aberick of Mortemar, an exiled noble.

udah, forty miles from Jerusal

beneath Eng

he Dead

, Sand of

ian guards.-Sir W. Scott, Count

follower of Prince John of Anjou, the brother of Ri

of Montserrat, a crusader.-Sir W. Sc

among the Arthurian knights. In order to save Enid from this taint, Sir Geraint removed from the court to Devon; but overhearing part of a sentence uttered by Enid, he fancied that she was unfaithful, and treated her for a time with great har

wrote a translation in Saxon of Th

eung, who wrote a continuation

of the Rose, is also called "The French E

), Juan de Mena of

peasant while Enrique was absent in America. Having made his fortune in the New World, Enrique returned and found Agnes in love with Horace, the son of his friend Oronte

uel′ and his companions went to this kingdom in search

science" gave the hint to Swi

were about to sup with Falstaff, in Eastcheap, and calls them "Ephesians," he probably meant soldiers called féthas ("foot-soldiers"), a

ippo′nax, born at Ephes

Father of), Homer

t Woman, one of the three great

one (2 syl., 1605), an

eur of this philosopher w

nced the search for "the elixir of pe

ure'an. Lucretius the Roman poet, in his De Rerum

Epidaurus, a city of Peloponne'sus. Being sent for to Rome during a plague

ce of ser

those that in

nd Cadmus,

pida

dise Lost, i

migrated into Illyria, where they were changed into serpe

war upon the gods. He was deprived of his left

and razed it to the ground. The chiefs and sons were: (1) Adrastos, whose son was Aegi'aleus (4 syl.); (2) Polynikês, whose son was Thersan'der; (3) Amphiar'aos (5 syl.), whose son was Alkmaeon (the

lso two epics, one The Theba?d of Statius, and The Epigoni sometimes a

n of the first year, the elder son (Eteoclês) refused to give up the throne. Whereupon the younger brother (Polynikês) interested six Grecian chiefs to espouse his cause, and the allied armies laid siege to Thebes, without success. Subsequently, the seven sons of the old chiefs wen

for fifty-seven years in a cave, and, on waking, found everything so changed that he could recognize nothing. Epimenidês l

Des Epimenides Erwachen.-S

draught in a bull's horn, one single drop of which would no

," where he deems himself a king, and does not wish to be disillusioned. The son

be the prize of the victor. Sir Epinogris, being overthrown, lost the lady; but when Sir Palomidês heard the tale, he promised to recover her. Accordingly, he challenged the victorious

is Eppie Anderson, one of the servants at the Mowbray Arms, Old St. Ronan

, George III.). Equity (Father of), Heneage Finch, earl of Nottingham (162

Amri, and no

anctions into

did a boundle

l, and fathomed

ouble blessin

nspiration, A

Achitophel

ivo

hich he supposed meant the Holy Land; but he died in the Jerusalem

hould die at Jerusalem, and he died while

meant the capital of Media. Being wounded accidentally in Syria, he asked the name of

e Delphic oracle respecting the issue of the

ops to drink of t

flee, for it

served a fig tree growing on the river-side, and its branches dipped into the stream. The interpretation of the or

substituted for the goat: "When a stork stoops to drink of the

lphic oracle what would be the issue of the

arvest, weeping

fought at Sa

the Greeks or Persians who were to

d by Cyrus, the answer was, he "should behold a mighty empire overthrown;" but whether tha

ve successful, he received for reply, "The ready victim crowned for sacrifice stands before the al

covery of his throne, and was told, "Tarquin will never fall till a dog speaks with th

"He who shall first kiss his mother." Whereupon Junius Brutus fell t

e, to "avoid where castles mounted stand." The duke died in an ale-house

me should be G." The king thought the person meant was his brother George, but the duke of Glou

k, under the expectation that he would be instantly acquitted. But no, Eraclius ordered all three to be put to death: the knight, because the emperor had ordered it; the ma

into the mouth of his Sumpnor. It is also told by Seneca, in his

y Molière. He is in love with Orphiso

e Rhymer," introduced by Sir W. Scott in his n

n under-ground region, where he remained for seven years. He then revisited the earth, but bound himself to return when summoned. One day, when he was making merry with his friends, he was told that

is substantially the same in th

uses him to action. He then goes forth on an expedition of adventures, and after combating with brigands, giants, and dwarfs, returns to the court of King Arthur, where

h, she was chosen for the bride of Jagannaut, and Ar'valan came to dishonor her; but she set fire to the pagoda, and Ereenia came to her rescue. Ereenia was set upon by the witch Lor'rimite (3 syl.), and carried to the submerged city of Baly, whence he was delivered by Ladurlad. The glendoveer now craved Seeva for vengeance, but the god

called "Bull" from the bull-like breadth and gravity of his

e wind blow from any quarter by simply turning his

let him marry the girl he loves because she has not "joined

t forward, past the s

re perfect love hath

hey marry, nor in

e angels in GOD'S ho

ngster, Eric's

s Thessaliaii witch consulted b

at Jarlshof.-Sir W. Scott, T

ston's tragedy called The Wonde

confounded with Duns Scotus, "the Subtle Doctor," who lived some

Athenian, who was murdered by some drunken peasants. Erigonê discovered the de

virgin, fr

assion got

oke, Of

th branch of the Missouri. Her husband was King Tepol'loni, and her son Amal'ahta. Madoc when he reached A

ayed to Polyni-cês where her husband had concealed himself that he might not go to the s

broke her pl

procured her h

rt of L

daughter Metra, and her he sold to buy food for his voracious appetite; but Metra had the power of transforming herself into any shape she chose, so as often as

ewood, she bethought her of Erisichthon's end, who, "when nor se

, once fired

ge, fed never,

dishes seve

usand thousand

ughter hundred

meat he in hi

, his hunger yet

er, The Purple

e Fitful Head."-Sir W. Scott,

chief, which haunts the B

and Herder has translated the Danish balla

torm with a child in his arms is pursued by the Erl-king, who ent

the Lady Eveline Berenger "the betrothed."-S

Reynard, in the beast-epic c

alem, arrayed herself in Clorinda's armor to go to him. After certain adventures, she found him wounded, and nursed him

ndee, whom she detests. Charles V. falls in love with her, and Ruy Gomez joins Ernani in a league against their common rival. During this league Ernani gives Ruy Gomez a horn, saying, "

of Homeric legends, Oriental myths, and pilgrims' tales. We have pygmies and cyclopses, genii and enchanters, fairies and dwarfs, monks and devotees. After a world of ha

is natural daughter by the countess Marie), dressed in the clothes of Herman, the deaf and dumb jailor-boy, gets access to the dungeon and contrives his escape; but he is

after the battle of Actium, fearing lest he should fall into the hands of Octavius C?sar, ordered Eros to keep his promise. Eros drew his sword, bu

Antony and Cleopatra, and in Dryden'

f Cupid, and hence amorou

of Diana of Ephesus, that his name might be perpetuated. An edict was publish

almost irresistible desire to push his majesty down from the top of the building, "in order to immortalize his name." Unlike Erostratos, the name of this knight has not

muel Butler calls Lilly, the almanac-maker, an Erra-Pater,

ble was an

The Purple Isl

Erra-Pater or

on was Fo

ve for Love,

but Lorma, the king's wife, falling in love with him, the guilty pair escaped to Morven. Erragon invaded the country, and slew Aldo

Una.-Spenser, Fa?ry

er for dreaming of Sappho, and Lesbian d

s and keep thee

matron dignities and ho

nce them all f

l for room to

ythms I hum w

er leave my w

ston, Old Song

adopts him. The boy's sweetness of manners and nobility of nature conquer the old man's prejudices, and win him to symp

constable of Scotland.-Sir W. Scott,

sundry shape, and these cubs crept into their mother's mouth when alarmed, as young kangaroos creep into their mother's pouch. The knight was nearly killed

erpent horrib

half did woman

ay upon the

tail her den a

and many boughts

with mor

?ry Queen,

ists, (See A

picture of the "Last Judgment"

offerings to the infant Jesus, has represented one of them dressed in a large white s

of Holofernes a helmet of the p

he sea by fishes, the earth by moles, fire by a salamander, and air by a camel! E

the "Israelites Gathering Manna in the W

t of Cana of Galilee," has introduced

cademy, has represented Paris

of absurdities. Witness t

cuirass and sandals, but on his head is a

costume of a Roman emperor, and his duche

thors, (See

nges from Alpine heights.

Pickle was one of the pall-bearers of the D

rase droit de timbre ("stamp dut

that every recruit shall have the 40th and 46

ains, and has no sort of concern with recruits. Probably t

Apellês' Curtai

encil to Appellês

o draw hi

's Pastor

e Apelles. The contest was between Zeuxis and Parrhasius. The former exhibited a bunch o

vulgar error to attribute this myth to Homer. The blind old bard nowhere says a word

The entire number of sails were 1200; of these 400 were wrecked before the battle off the coast of Sêpias,

s" as one of the isles of Greece, but Teos is a m

ueen of Micomicon, because both her father and mother were dea

uite whole and sound, the subject of a judicial inquiry, the question being whether it was a helmet or a barber's basin. Sancho (ch. 11) says, he "picked it up, bruised and battered, intending to get it mended;" but h

Sancho laments the loss with true pathos, and the knight condoles with him. But soon af

great-coat (ch. 5). The galley-slaves robbed him of "his great-coat, leaving only his doublet" (ch. 8), but in the next chapter (9) we find "the victuals had not been touched," though

tavern where he was blanket-tossed (ch. 5), but in ch. 9, when he found t

ound the portmanteau, "he entirely forgot the loss of his wallet, his

ers in supper, and "after supper" they read the story of Fatal Curiosity. In ch. 12 we are told "the cloth was l

e knows that Mozart composed the opera of Figaro (1786), and that Casti wrote the libretto. The opera of Le Barbier de Seville, or rather Il Barbiere di

day died Henry VIII., Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth. If this had been the case it would, indeed, have been startling; b

ent dynasty, "for William IV. and every one of the Georges died on a Saturday." What, howeve

orge IV. died Sunday, June 26, 1830; and only George II. die

e that Tubal himself, the first musican, could not e

piece; but when his art describes the commonwealth of bees ... I'm ravished." He means Georgics. The Bucolics are eclogues, and never

d his brother Sancho and banishe

where were t

h when far

they when

ee from th

en foes, but that the Cid rescued Sancho from thirteen of Alfonso'

, in time." But Peregrine was at least 45 years old when so addressed. He was 15 when Job first knew him,

month. In the south of England they begin to bloom in the latter half of May, a

t in this; "We are told that Sancho's ass is stolen, but the author has forgotten to mention who the thief was." This is not th

ks and rooks' nests" (instead of d

s Mr. Squeers as setting his bo

an of Old Scripture descended to the chief functionary who worked the

ee); and Sylvius, in reply to Vesalius, contends that "in days of

a city of Phocis, and no island. "Six noblemen were sent to the isle of Delphos."-D

ogether a mistake. Tusser, in his "May Remembrances," says: "From bull cow fast, till Crouchmas be past," i.e. St. Helen's Day.

(Bevil

ueen, drawn b

auty did the

nymphs from ever

ribute to ad

frey Knell

mpaspê, afterwards his wife. Campbell has borrowed these l

Rhodian's mim

Beauty in her

ster mingled

harmed him in th

es of H

ereas the person so called by Addison was not Richard Steele, bu

three times within two years of "passing under the Caudine Forks," evid

a Scotchman, whereas the v

in by that Sc

na Jo

en L

ottus [Erigena], who died in 875. Erigena translated into Latin, St. Dionysius. He

ch Milton says, "the spirits elect bind their resplendent locks;" and his

iamond, which Mary Cave tossed off, and saw "fall lifeless at the king's feet" (ch. xxix.). In ch. xlvi. this very hawk is

o speak of three different persons, but in reality they are one and the same; i.e.,

Ligea sleek her hair with a golden comb

(Thom.

urns on her god

which she turn

lieve Me, if all those E

ng sun. It receives its name solely because it resembles

s Race, renders the Greek wor

ron gown wil

-strewn couch sh

a girdled gown called Saophron ("chaste"), to indicate their purity and to prevent

recian Daughter,

got the elde

ant?... Evander

tyrant to his

ed to roam for

hist thro' the

but Timoleon, who dethroned him. The elder Dionysius was not dethroned at all, nor even reduced "to humble rank." He

v. 1) Euphrasia says to

her's fate at Co

son, (Dionysius the Younger)

a stab Dionysius the Younger, whereas he retreated to Corinth, and spent his time in debauchery, but supported himself b

n 1135) a preaching expedition for the restoration of R

king of England and lord of Ireland;" but every one knows that Ireland was

98, to swear "in no wise to confederate with

, unlike those of the Sabine maid, have not crushed him." Tarpeia, who opened the gates of Rom

. In the Heart of

traying her aquaintance with the celebrated receipt for Dunlop cheese, that she compared herself to Bedredeen Hassan

he made "cream-tarts with pepper;" (3) it was not the vizier, his father-in-law and uncle, but his mother, the widow of Nouredeen, who made the discovery, and why? for the bes

edredeen, "was

broken and de

ot put pepper i

s ("Nouredeen

d from Philip inflamed with wine to Philip in his hours of sob

e before Paris was born, that her offspring was a brand that consumed the kingdom. The tale of Althaea is, that the Fates laid a log of wood on a fire, and told her that her son would live till that

ring the infant Perdita is "driven by storm on the c

other, and Virgilia the wife, of Coriolanus; bu

hi is spoken of as an island; but Delphi is a city of Pho

n the castle of Inverness, as stated in the play

e beetling cliff of Elsinore, wher

ghost] tempt you

eadful summi

o'er its base

act i.

; he talks of purgatory, absolution, and other Cath

e "grandmother was Isabel," issue of Charles de Lorraine, the last of the Carlovingians. Louis X. was the son of Philippe IV. (le

ut to be, but a firm and equitable prince, whose

e, but made his escape from the battle, and was slai

rs to Julio Romano, the Italian artist and architect (1492-15

triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure, or the bells of St. Bennet's sure may

a picture descriptive of the love of Saturn, who had changed himself into a centaur out of love for Erig'onê

which ought to be Oenonê. The poet says that Paris was "by Plexippus' brook" when the

the dear Critias; his dearest bel-amie." It was not Socratês, but Theram'enes, one of the thirty tyrants, who i

says that Socrates often discoursed of love to his friend Cr

eautiful than "that in Paphos, or that in Cyprus;" but Paphos was merely a town in th

's garden were better than Those with which the Euba

He was not a "Eubaean," but a n

mockery by Sir Gaw'ain; but in the History of Prince Arthur we are dist

ellicent; but we are told a score times and more in the History of Prince Arth

s ... wedded Elain.-Sir T. Malory, H

these were quite different persons. Lionês, daughter of Sir Persaunt, and sister of Linet of Castle Perilous, married Sir Gare

e heroine, Lyonors, in the cold; but the History makes Grareth

he Castle Perilous; and also of Sir Gaheris, who wedded her sister

reverses the order of the knights, and makes the fresh green morn represent the decline of day, or, as he ca

he combat between Gareth and Death finished at a single blo

wagging, staggering, panting, blowing, and bleeding ... and when they had rested them awhile, they went to battle again, trasing

with his aunt, Isolt the Fair, but in the History he was in bed in Brittany, severely wounded, and dies of a shock, because hi

tales edited by Sir Thomas Malory, that it would occupy too muc

sia puts into the cream-tarts in India, sir" (ch. iii.). The charge was that Bedredeen made his cheese-cakes without putting pepper into them. But Thackeray has committed in this allusion other blunders. It was not a "princess" at all, but Bedredeen Hassan, w

e Frith of Forth" by the phrase Premier des quatre, mis

istory and Annals of Henry VII. par F

mi, per Franc

tatus who cut a gorge through the rocks to let the waters of the Velinus into the Nar. Before this was done, the Velinus was merely

but as Italy was so called from Auson, son of Ulysses a

Chorinseus as slain by Asy'las; but i

um stern

ix.

h

um torrem Cho

nienti Ebuso pl

os flamm

i. 298

isus, (ver. 554); but in bk. x. 562

Jaturna, the sister of Turnus, assumes his shape. But if he was dead, no o

le to add to this list; but no more space can

r and mother, who lived there; so the giant lost the second wager. The third was to pull a tree up by the roots; and the giant gave in because Errua had run a cord around a host of trees, and said, "You pull up one, but I pull up all these." The next exploit was at bed-time; Errua was to sleep in a certain bed; but he placed a dead man in the bed, while he himself got under it. At midnight Tartaro took his club and belabored the dead body most unmercifully. When Errua stood before Tartaro next

Grayfriar's Church, Edinburgh.-Sir W.

Euphratês. The bones of this fi

teth the flood

ertanax, and his

nd that whoso

uch courage tha

he shall not t

hath had, but o

fore him.-Sir T

rthur, iii.

Varro is called "the most erudi

of chastity, in The Purple Island, by Phineas Fletcher (1633). Fully de

punished by Cerês with insatiable hunger, for cutting down so

in the deputation of the duke of Vienna.

ro'na.-Shakespeare, Ro

lords of Tyre.-Shakespeare, Pe

d from M. Escobar the probabilist, whence also the verb

L'Escobar, which may be translated the "shuffler," or m

on people as a magician, because he possessed more knowledge

dras.-Sir W. Scott, The Surgeo

Tuscans receive their name from Tuscus, the Romans from Romulus, the Cecrop'

re Notre Dame de Paris, and is looked on as a witch. Quasimodo conceals her for a time in

son Burnett's work of same name. The story has

the reign of Queen Anne; the hero of Thac

vo has made him the subject of a fifth book to

all the bloody-mindedness of an Esplandian or a Bobadil [Ben

t-laureate pretends that certain "letters from England," written by this Sp

n, was taken, and condemned to death. The queen had given him a ring before the trial, telling him whatever petition he asked should be granted, if he sent to her this ring. When the time of execution drew nigh, the queen sent the countess of Nottingham to the Tower, to ask Essex if he had any plea to make. The earl entreated her to present the ring to her majesty, and petition her to spare the

e, and Th. Corneille have tr

f England, introduced by Sir W. Scott in h

She was affianced by her wish to Pip, but married Be

ster, but Hans is shy, and Esther has to teach him how to woo and win her. Esther and Hans are s

with Sir Leicester Dedlock). Esther is a most lovable, gentle creature, called by those who know and love her, "Dame Durden" or "Dame Trot.

sharp of temper and hard of hand, yet loyal in her way to hus

s of sixteen prisoners with her own hands, as a sacrifice to the manes of her son. Qu

Michael Perez (the copper captain) as an heiress, and the mistress of Margaritta's mansion. The captain marries

is general remark to the most startling announcement was, Est-il possible? With this excl

While Estmere and his brother went to make preparations for the wedding, the "sowdan" arrived, and demanded the lady to wife. A messenger was immediately despatched to inform Estmere, and the two brothers returned, disguised as a harper and his boy. They gained entrance into the palace, and Adler sang, saying, "O

e became the mother of Sabrin or Sabre. Gwendolen, the wife of Locrin, feeling insulted by this liaison, slew her husband, and

addock's book, Where the Battle was Fought

rs in Thebes. Eteoclês, being the elder, took the first turn, but at the close of the year refused to resign the sceptre to his brother; wh

ile with a body of French auxiliaries, and took his brother prisoner. Don Henry visited him in prison, and the two brothers fell on each other like lions. Henry wounded Pedro in

775, and corroborates the popular story that he demanded the surrender of the fortress, "In the

istian. He persuaded Gregory to send over Augustine to convert the English to

Kent, first christ

h of Christ was fi

he monk, from hol

e to Paul in Lo

olyolbion,

te earl of) father o

rington, his successor t

the titular earl of Etherington.-Sir W. S

e El-habasen or Al-habasen, whence our Abassins, but they call the

sin kings thei

t Am

dise Lost, i

ing that she was fairer than the sea-nymphs, she offended the Nereids, who complained to Neptune. Old father Earth-Shaker se

red Ethiop qu

beauty's

, and their po

Penseroso

s the royalists "Jews," and calls Charles II. "David, king of the Jews," the papists were "Gentiles" (or

eremonies in the court of Marie Antoinette; so called from her rigid

s mountain Enkel'ados, one

weighed him dow

nt of m

The Gold

n (Rue de la Verrerie) by all those who desired to unroll the Book of Fate. In 1783 he published Manière de se Récréer avec le Jeu de Cartes nommées Tarots. In the British Museum are some div

The ettercap is the poison-spider, and should be spelt

s sic diff

wee Wil

a perfec

r's just

r, Nurse

., who was born in the forest of Ettrick, in Selkir

Judith" pictures, "Benaiah," "Ulysses and the S

ys Etty, "in

en to paint som

Combat' repres

ree 'Judith' pic

to God; 2, self-

country;] 'Bena

esents valor;

delights or the

three pictures

loyalty and pat

, as it was my

m Etty, of Yor

s. His second wife was Kriemhild, the widow of Siegfried. In pt ii. of the Niebelungen Lied, he sees his sons and liegemen struck down without

, knowing his love was sensual love, hurried him away from the island. He afterwards fel

favorite with Louis XIV., but losing her good looks she was discarded, and died at the age of 20. She u

ous old hunks.-Pl

xplain all thi

me use you as i

la-Sir

s of Athens. A shuffling fellow, always evading his d

bus effugiat E

ts than E

he consent of Eumenês, and is refused. In revenge, he goes over to the Arabs, who are beseiging Damascus. Eudocia is taken captive, b

e up against the Moors, the first order of the Moorish chief was this: "Strike off Count Eudon's head: the fear which

Max'imus "poisoned" the emperor, and the empress kill

mmitted a murder, and hides the knowledge of it from al

of the forest." In order to come into the property, Baron Longueville used every endeavor to kill Eugenia and Florian, b

ed youth who addresses and marries her. She reveals the trick that has been played o

ted him and eloped with a heartless adventurer named Vincent de la R

rick. John Hall Stevenson was the original of

History to explain the historical or allegoric

en born. It was he that spoilt [the o

He undertakes anything, but rejoices in cheating those who employ him; he parodies proverbs, rejoices in mischief, and is brimful of pranks and drolleries. Whether Uulenspie

ons of the story he

sal history as Tyll Eulenspiegel. Now, after five centuries, his

he slave and swine-herd of U

ascus, and father of Eudo'cia.-Joh

and half blind. He was waited on by a boy named Anamnestês. [Greek, eumn

illegitimate child, while almost a child herself. She is taken fro

lf to the life of an uncloistered nun. Her death in a thunderstorm is tra

calls herself "Bellario," and enters the prince's service. Philaster transfers Bellario to the Princess Arethusa, and then grows jealous of the lady's love for h

m Syracuse to save their infant son. Euphrasia, having gained admission to the dungeon where her aged father was dying from starvation, "fostered him at her breast by the milk designed for her own babe, and thus t

er father Cimo'nos in prison. The guard, astonished that the o

geon, in whose

I gaze

nd a female y

rsing mother,

od is n

ffers to old

s own gift....

nders back the

e Harold, iv

clearing the organs of sight. Hence the archangel Michael purged the eyes of Adam with it,

s elegance, wit, love-making, and roving habits. Shakespeare borrowed his "government of the bees" (Henry V. act i. sc. 2) from Lilly. Euphuês was designed to exhib

alth of your

so delight me

either their est

leisure more;

was such an or

ot be ashamed

, Euphue

same relation to the jargon of Louis XIV., as t

e exclamation of Archime'des, the Syracusan philosopher,

ved that the water ran over, and it flashed into his mind that his body displaced its own bulk of water. Now, suppose Hiero gave the goldsmith 1 lb. of gold, and the crown weighed 1 lb., it is manifest that if the crown was pure gold, both ought to displace

: "When the id

, he jumped out

to put on his

ming, 'Heure

y the Rev. H.W. Pullen, minor canon of Salisbury Cath

ton was called after the overt

.. called "Savio

ope's Li

Juan, ix.

o'reas, the north wind. Eurus, in Italian, is called the Lev'ant ("risi

Levant and th

and

dise Lost, x

e of Orpheus, killed by a s

rth provided he did not look back. When the poet was stepping on the confines of our earth, he turned to se

Pindaric poem, called Ode

t walked unceasingly among his herds with his two-headed dog Orthros.

ald Front de Boeuf (a follower of Prince Joh

St. Mary's. He was formerly William Allan, and the friend of Henry Warden (afte

amed Frederick. Charles Eustace confides his scrape to Polyglot, and conceals his young wife in the tutor's private room.

age, Jack introduced himself as a music-master, and Sir William Meadows, who recognized him, persuaded the justice to consent to the marriage of t

of Uncle Tom's master, and Uncle Tom's warm

is betrothed to Ferquhard Day.-Sir W. Sc

.). She threw herself on the funeral pile

ry her, although he was betrothed to Aspasia (the "maid" whose death forms the

nê, and the rough soldier-like bearing and manly feeling of Melantius render the selfish s

ely as a flimsy cloak, but he adds "Never mind, it will make your fortune." The proud Neapolitan is disgusted, and flings off Evadnê as a viper. Her brother is indignant, challenges the troth-plight lover to a duel, and Vicentio falls. Ludovico now irritates Colonna by talking of the king's amour, and induces him to invite the king to a banquet and then murder him. The king goes to the banquet, and Evadnê shows him the statues of the Colonna family, and amongst them one of her own father, who at the battle of Milan had

in the army of Montrose.-Sir W. Scott,

-brother of M'Ivor.-Sir W. Sco

mouth. He is a suitor of Edith Bellenden, the granddaughter of Lady Margaret Bellen

father of Euphrasia, and was kept in a dungeon on the top of a rock, where he would have been starved to death, if Euphrasia had not nourished him with "the milk designed for her own babe." When Syracuse was taken by

he stage in the character of "Evander."-

Wycliffe, "the Morning Star o

d their houses, cattle, and lands were confiscated. Gabriel and Evangeline were parted, and now began the troubles of her life. She wandered from place to place to find her betrothed. Basil had settled at Louisiana, but when Evangeline reached the place, Gabriel had just left; she then went to the prairies, to Michigan, and so on, but at every place she was just too

y points of close similitude with Campb

master of extraordinary simplicity and native shrewd

Sir Hugh Evans, "I like not when a

n preparing for the duel, keep the house in an ecstasy of merrime

is pocket. Evans was eight feet in height, and Hudson only eighteen inches. Fuller mentio

e wicked instrument of Frederick, duke o

or a month, at the end of which time the libertine was to suffer death. No one would accept the offer,

20). Before the expulsion from paradise her name was Ishah,

ar Mecca, her knees rested on two other hills in the plain, about two gun-s

o called by Miss Burney (afterwards Mme. D'A

of Lady Franklin, but she was poor also, and declined to marry him. Scarcely had she refused him, when he was left an immense fortune and proposed to Georgina Vesey. What little heart Georgina had was given to Sir Fr

family, and character, in love with Do

re and Maids as

Markham), of the

's father.-Sir W. Scott, Wo

the "Popish Plot."-Sir W. Scott, Pev

rd by Downright; "Kitely," whose humor is jealousy of his wife-he is befooled and cured by a trick played on him by Brain-worm; "Stephen," whose humor is verdant stupidity-he is played on by every one; "Kno'well," whose humor is suspicion of his son Edward, which

s Humor, a comedy b

rresolution, "Shall I marry or shall I not!" Solus remained a miserable bachelor, pining for a wife and domestic joys. By the fault of deficient spirit and manliness, Mr. Placid was a hen-pecked husband. By the fault of marrying without the consent of his wife's friends, Mr. Irwin was reduced to poverty and even c

e horse to Prince Robert of Scotland).-Sir W.

word were despised, for graceful in her eyes was Ossian." This Evir-Allen was the mother of Oscar, Fingal's grandson, but she was not alive when Finga

n le Fay (Arthur's half-sister).-Sir T. Mal

er in the army of Montrose.-Sir W

of the smuggler's brig. Sir W. Sco

, and is said to have been so bright "that it gave light like thirty torches." After his fight with Pellinore, the king said to Merlin he had no sword, and Merlin took him to a lake, and Arthur saw an arm "clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in the hand." Presently the Lady of the Lake appeared, and Arthur begged that he might have the sword, and the lady told him to go

r's sword,

e lonely maid

rought it, sitti

dden bases

, Morte

libur, for ye shall lose no blood as long as ye have the scabbard upon you, though y

anded by Charles IX. of France to massacre the Huguenots, he replied, "Sire, there

rologue spoken by Garrick at the opening o

f many-colore

lds, and then

hatred against the Spaniards on reading of their cruelties in the New World. Embarking at Havre, in 1667, Montbars attacked the Spaniards in

in anger that those died who ventured to look thereon, and had he given way to hi

Arimaspians of Scythia

h only one eye, and that in

t. Sindbad the sailor, in his third voyage, was

tely marries a used-up man of fortune, in whom the germs of good feeling and sound

ensues, and Ezzelin is never heard of more. A serf used to say that he saw a huntsman one evening cast a dead body into the river

ne of the huntsman at Liddesdale.-Sir W.

r, and commanded those who rode with him not to interfere, but the boar

can), George Washi

duc de Montmorency, grand-co

nesty of the "good old times." Pyrrhus used every effort to corrupt him by bribes, or to terrify him, but in vain. "Excellent

comprehend the meaning of a single line of his writings. His poetry was verbos

of Captain Jac'omo the woman-hater.-Bea

w something about alchemy) was discovered by Face near Pye Corner. Assuming the philosopher's garb and wand, he called himself "doctor;" Face, arrogating the title of "captain," touted for dupes; while Dol Common kept the house

ork for another; one in whom another confides for all t

m, at least in his own conceit.-Gr

for wit and impudence for raillery. He was so needy that the very dev

wit is prostituted to slander and buffoonery; and thy judgment, if thou hast any, to meanness and villainy. Thy betters, that laugh with

Mahomet's s

ises the tales told to Lalla Rookh by a young poet on her way to Delhi, and g

to the deepest questions of science and literature; from the mixture of a conserv

captive king of the Antip'odês, and at the death of the king, when two suitors arise, she says, "Wel

in six books, of twelve cantos ea

spirit of Christianity, or the v