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utability, is added; but only

d fights.-Sigurd the Horny (a Germa

"wears his master's wit, as he does his lace,

d Darsie Latimer (i. e. Sir Arthur Darsie Redgauntlet) after he had be

uality. In Molière's Le Médecin Malgré Lui, Sganarelle wants to show that his faggots are bet

e suis le premier homme du mo

d'une facon qu'il n'y a rien a dire ... I

es to pick pockets and pilfer adroitly. Fagin assumes a most suave and fawning mann

m of Fainall was to get into his possession the estates of his wife (settled on herself "in trust to Edward Mirabell"), but in this he failed. In outward sem

Lady Wishford. Her second husband she both despised a

against Sora, but scarcely had he promised to take up her cause, when Sora landed, drew the bow, and she fell. Fingal said to

ndrick, daughter of Sir William Kendrick, second baronet. Sir William's father was created baronet by

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die brought out by Mde. Vestris at the Olympic. Mde.

g-day that she had been seduced by Lotha'rio. This led to a duel between the bridegroom and the libertine, in which Lothario was killed; a street riot ens

Deans at the trial.-Sir W. Scott, He

duchess of Buckingham.-Sir W. Scott, P

he falls into the hands of desperadoes who force him to fire a pistol at a bound man. The lad is almost fainting, and swoons with pain and horror when the deed is, as he thinks, done. His fat

of the mill." An honest, straightforward man, gratefu

lexander or Sau

iend of Darsie Latimer. He marries Lilias Redgauntlet, siste

usin.-Sir W. Scott, Redgau

London Magazine (1848, 1849). It was in this magazine that Smedley'

ghter of Rukenaw the ape, in the bea

Heroine of Scott's

dleburgh, a magistrate of Edinburgh.-Sir W. S

's clerk.-Sir W. Scott, Heart o

er of Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone, of Osbaldisto

iar in its way as the humors of A

them adrift in a boat, and told the queen-mother they were gone. It so happened that the boat was seen by a corsair, who brought the children to his wife Cor'sina to bring up. The corsair soon grew immensely rich, because every time the hair of these children was combed, jewels fell from their heads. When grown up, these castaways went to the land of their royal father and his brother,

the fairy tales of Strapa

sy of the witches' revel in the forest, and calls to her to "l

r instructs her in belles lettres, natural philosophy, religion and love. H

e is partially betrothed to Paul Rushleigh, but under the influence of nature, and association with an older and

h were seized at Vanity Fair, and Faithful, being burnt to death, was tak

e and hero of a sea tale,

the), Abraham.-Rom

in, whose lover was dead. Faithful to his memory, Clorin retired from the busy world, employing her time

s is almost a verbal tra

l), Mahomet

faster and faster, and on came the pattering footfalls behind. She gained the churchyard gate and pushed it open, but, ah! "the monster" also passed through. Every moment she expected it would leap upon her back. She r

ugh went thro

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was just

The Fakenham

sleeping, should have his first wish granted by a fay. A certain king accomplished the watching, and w

rdine.-Sir W. Scott, Waverley time, George Falconer (Major), brother of

of Edmund O'Rourke, author of Extrem

rded the doge's chair with some scurrilous verses upon the young dogaressa, and Faliero referred the matter to "the Forty." The council sentenced Steno to two months' imprisonment, and the doge deemed this punishment so inadequate to the offence, that he looked upon it