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List of most recent chapters published for the Character Sketches of Romance novel. A total of 291 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama.Vol 1.by The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer,
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama.Vol 1.by The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.VOLUME I CHARACTER SKETCHES OF ROMANCE, FICTION, AND THE DRAMA.AA'RON, a Moor, beloved by Tam'ora, queen of the Goths, in the tragedy of _t.i.tus Andro
- 1 Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama.Vol 1.by The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.VOLUME I CHARACTER SKETCHES OF ROMANCE, FICTION, AND THE DRAMA.AA'RON, a Moor, beloved by Tam'ora, queen of the Goths, in the tragedy of _t.i.tus Andro
- 2 Woe, woe, to Irem! Woe to Ad!Death, has gone up into her palaces!....They fell around me. Thousands fell around.The king and all his people fell; All, all, they perished all.Southey, _Thalaba the Destroyer_, i. 41, 45 (1797).A'DAH, wife of Cain. Afte
- 3 Shakespeare has a poem called _Venus and Adonis_. Sh.e.l.ley calls his elegy on the poet Keats _Adona'is_, under the idea that the untimely death of Keats resembled that of Adonis.(_Adonis_ is an allegory of the sun, which is six months north of the
- 4 AESCULA'PIUS, in Greek, ASKLE'PIOS, the G.o.d of healing.What says my aesculapius? my Galen?...Ha! is he dead?Shakespeare, _Merry Wives of Windsor_, act ii.sc. 3 (1601).AE'SON, the father of Jason. He was restored to youth by Medea, who inf
- 5 AGESILA'US (5 _syl_.). Plutarch tells us that Agesilaus, king of Sparta, was one day discovered riding c.o.c.k-horse on a long stick, to please and amuse his children.A'GIB (_King_), "The Third Calender" (_Arabian Nights'Entertain
- 6 A'JAX TEL'AMON. Sophocles has a tragedy called _Ajax_, in which "the madman" scourges a ram he mistakes for Ulysses. His encounter with a flock of sheep, which he fancied in his madness to be the sons of Atreus, has been mentioned at g
- 7 M. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, iv. (1612).ALBO'RAK, the animal brought by Gabriel to convey Mahomet to the seventh heaven. It had the face of a man, the cheeks of a horse, the wings of an eagle, and spoke with a human voice.ALb.u.mA'ZAR, Arabian astr
- 8 ALEC'TRYON, a youth set by Mars to guard against surprises, but he fell asleep, and Apollo thus surprised Mars and Venus in each others'embrace. Mars in anger changed the boy into a c.o.c.k.And from out the neighboring farmyard Loud the c.o.c.k
- 9 _Al'ice_ (2 _syl_.), foster-sister of Robert le Diable, and bride of Rambaldo, the Norman troubadour, in Meyerbeer's opera of _Roberto il Diavolo_. She comes to Palermo to place in the duke's hand his mother's "will," which h
- 10 ALMANSOR ("_the invincible_"), a t.i.tle a.s.sumed by several Mussulman princes, as by the second caliph of the Abba.s.side dynasty, named Abou Giafar Abdallah (_the invincible_, or _al mansor_). Also by the famous captain of the Moors in Spain,
- 11 _Lopluel, or the Bride of Seven_, by Maria del Occidente (Maria Gowen Brooks) (1833).ALTISIDO'RA, one of the d.u.c.h.ess's servants, who pretends to be in love with don Quixote, and serenades him. The don sings his response that he has no other
- 12 AME'LIA, heroine of novel of same name. Young daughter of a German inn-keeper, who rises to a high position in society, through native merit, graces of mind and person.--Eliza Leslie (1843)._Ame'lia_, a model of conjugal affection, in Fielding&#
- 13 Amphion there the loud creating lyre Strikes, and behold a sudden Thebes aspire.Pope, _Temple of Fame_.AMPHIS-BAENA, a reptile which could go head foremost either way, because it had a head at each extremity. Milton uses the word in _Paradise Lost_, x. 52
- 14 In _Julius Caesar_, Brutus says to Ca.s.sius, "Peace, count the clock."To which Ca.s.sius replies, "The clock has stricken three."Clocks were not known to the Romans, and striking-clocks were not invented till some 1400 years after the
- 15 ANDREW, gardener, at Ellangowan, to G.o.dfrey Bertram the laird.--Sir W.Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.).ANDREWS, a private in the royal army of the duke of Monmouth.--Sir W.Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.)._Andrews (Joseph)_, the hero
- 16 ANIMULA, beauteous being revealed in a drop of water by a microscope of extraordinary and inconceivable power.--_The Diamond Lens_, by Fitz-James...o...b..ien (1854).ANJOU (_The Fair Maid of_), lady Edith Plantagenet, who married David earl of Huntingdon
- 17 AN'THONY, an English archer in the cottage of farmer d.i.c.kson, of Douglasdale.--Sir W. Scott, _Castle Dangerous_ (time, Henry I.)._An'thony_, the old postillion at Meg Dods's, the landlady of the inn at St. Ronan's Well.--Sir W. Scot
- 18 APOLL'YON, king of the bottomless pit; introduced by Bnnyan in his _Pilgrim's Progress_. Apollyon encounters Christian, by whom, after a severe contest, he is foiled (1678).APOSTLE _or Patron Saint of_-- ABYSSINIANS, St. Frumentius (died 360). H
- 19 ARBUTUS, st.u.r.dy yeoman usually known as "Bute," in Bayard Taylor's novel _Hannah Thurston._ Rugged and sound as the New England granite underlying the farm he tills.ARC _(Joan of)_, or _Jeanne la Pucelle_, the "Maid of Orleans,"
- 20 _Arges'tes_ (3 _syl_.), the north-east wind; Cae'cias, the north-west; Bo'reas, the full north.Boreas and Caecias and Argestes loud ... rend the woods, and seas upturn.Milton, _Paradise Lost_, x. 699, etc. (1665).AR'GILLAN, a haughty,
- 21 The first that ever told Christ crucified to us, By Paul and Peter sent, just Aristob'ulus ...By the Britons murdered was.Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xxiv. (1622).ARISTOM'ENES (5 _syl_.), a young Messenian of the royal line, the "Cid" of an
- 22 AR'TAMENES (3 _syl_.) or LE GRAND CYRUS, a "long-winded romance," by Mdlle. Scuderi (1607-1701).ARTAXAM'INOUS, king of Utopia, married to Griskinissa, whom he wishes to divorce for Distaffi'na. But Distaffina is betrothed to gener
- 23 _t.i.turel_, or _The Guardian of the Holy Graal_, by Wolfram von Eschenbach. t.i.turel founded the temple of Graalburg as a shrine for the holy graal._The Romance of Parzival_, prince of the race of the kings of Graalburg. By Wolfram of Eschenbach (in ver
- 24 ASCRae'AN SAGE, or _Ascraean poet_, Hesiod, who was born at Ascra, in Boeo'tia. Virgil calls him "The Old Ascraean."Hos tibi dant calamos, en accipe, Musae Ascraeo quos ante seni._Ecl._ vii. 70.AS'EBIE (3 _syl_.), Irreligion perso
- 25 We think of Astarte as young, beautiful, innocent,--guilty, lost, murdered, judged, pardoned; but still, in her permitted visit to earth, speaking in a voice of sorrow, and with a countenance yet pale with mortal trouble. We had but a glimpse of her in he
- 26 Byron, _Don Juan_, xii. 86.AT'IMUS, Baseness of Mind personified in _The Purple Island_ (1633), by Phineas Fletcher. "A careless, idle swain ... his work to eat, drink, sleep, and purge his reins." Fully described in canto viii.(Greek, _ati
- 27 Even sicke of a flixe [_ill of the flux_] as he was, he caused himself to be carried forth on a litter; with whose presence the people were so encouraged, that encountering with the Saxons they wan the victorie.--Holinshed, _History of Scotland_, 99.... o
- 28 Milton, _Paradise Lost_, i. 422 (1665).BAB (_Lady_), a waiting maid on a lady so called, who a.s.sumes the airs with the name and address of her mistress. Her fellow-servants and other servants address her as "lady Bab," or "Your ladys.h.i.
- 29 BAILIFF'S DAUGHTER OF ISLINGTON (in Norfolk). A squire's son loved the bailiff's daughter, but she gave him no encouragement, and his friends sent him to London "an apprentice for to binde." After the lapse of seven years, the bai
- 30 Book xxiii.BALIVERSO, the basest knight in the Saracen army.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_, (1516).BALK or BALKH ("_to embrace_"), Omurs, surnamed _Ghil-Shah_ ("earth's king"), founder of the Paishdadian dynasty. He travelled abroad
- 31 Barbara Frietchie's work is o'er And the Rebel rides on his raids no more.Honor to her! and let a tear Fall, for her sake, on Stonewall's bier.Over Barbara Frietchie's grave Flag of Freedom and Union wave.Peace and order and beauty dra
- 32 Bargulus, Illyrius latro, de quo est apud Theopompum magnas opes habuit.--Cicero, _De Officiis_, ii. 11.BARICONDO, one of the leaders of the Moorish army. He was slain by the duke of Clarence.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).BARKER (.Mr.), friend to So
- 33 In exile with his G.o.d-like prince he mourned, For him he suffered, and with him returned.Dryden, _Absalom and Achitophel_, i.BASA-ANDRE, the wild woman, a sorceress, married to Basa-Jaun, a sort of vampire. Basa-Andre sometimes is a sort of land mermaid
- 34 Lord Brooke, _Treatise on Monarchie_, iv.BAU'CIS AND PHILEMON, an aged Phrygian woman and her husband, who received Jupiter and Mercury hospitably when every one else in the place had refused to entertain them. For this courtesy the G.o.ds changed th
- 35 BEAU HEWITT was the original of sir George Etherege's "Sir Fopling Flutter," in the comedy called _The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter_ (1676).BEAU NASH, Richard Nash, called also "King of Bath;" a Welsh gentleman, who for fift
- 36 BEG (_Callum_), page to Fergus M'Ivor, in _Waverley_, a novel by sir W. Scott (time, George II.)._Beg (Toshach)_, MacGillie Chattanach's second at the combat.--Sir W.Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).BEGGAR OF BETHNAL GREEN (_The_),
- 37 _Bell_ (_Bessy_). Bessy Bell and Mary Gray were the daughters of two country gentlemen near Perth. When the plague broke out in 1666 they built for themselves a bower in a very romantic spot called Burn Braes, to which they retired, and were supplied with
- 38 BELOVED PHYSICIAN (_The_), St. Luke the evangelist.--_Col._ iv. 14.BEL'PHEGOR, a Moabitish deity, whose orgies were celebrated on mount Phegor, and were noted for their obscenity.BELPHOE'BE (3 _syl._). "All the Graces rocked her cradle when
- 39 How oft has death untied Bright links that glory wove, Sweet bonds entwined by love!T. Moore, _Irish Melodies_, ii.BENVO'LIO, nephew to Montague, and Romeo's friend. A testy, litigious fellow, who would quarrel about goat's wool or pigeon&#
- 40 BERTIE THE LAMB, professional dude, with a heart yet softer than his head, in _The Henrietta_, a play of New York life, by Bronson Howard.Stuart Robson's impersonation of "Bertie" is without a flaw (1887).BERTOLDE (3 _syl_.), the hero of a
- 41 (1873.) BETSEY BOBBET, the sentimental spinster who wears out the patience of Josiah Allen's wife with poetry and opinions."She is fairly activ' to make a runnin' vine of herself.... It seems strange to me that them that preach up the
- 42 Not that [_fountain_] where Biblis dropt, too fondly light, Her tears and self may dare compare with this.Phin. Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, v. (1633).BIB'ULUS, a colleague of Julius Caesar, but a mere cipher in office; hence his name became a hous
- 43 Across the unpathwayed seas, Shot the brave prow that cut on Vinland sands The first rune in the Saga of the West.James Russell Lowell, _The Voyage to Vinland_.BIRCH (_Harvey_), a prominent character in _The Spy_, a novel by J.F.Cooper.BIRD (_My_). f.a.n.
- 44 Scott says) from her dark complexion. Similarly, "The Black Sea,"or Axinus, as the Greeks once called it, received its name from the inhospitable character of the Scythians.BLACK'ACRE (_Widow_), a masculine, litigious, pettifogging, headstr
- 45 Ctesias speaks of a people of India near the Ganges, _sine cervice, oculos in humeris habentes_. Mela also refers to a people _quibus capita et vultus in pectore sunt_.BLENHEIM SPANIELS. The Oxford electors are so called, because for many years they obedi
- 46 BLOUZELIN'DA or BLOWZELINDA, a shepherdess in love with Lobbin Clout, in _The Shepherd's Week_.My Blouzelinda is the blithest la.s.s, Than primrose sweeter, or the clover-gra.s.s.My Blouzelind's than gilliflower more fair, Than daisie, mary
- 47 Christopher Pea.r.s.e Cranch, _The Bird and the Bell_ (1875).BODACH GLAY or "Grey Spectre," a house demon of the Scotch, similar to the Irish banshee.BODLEY FAMILY, an American household, father, mother, sisters, and brothers, whose interesting
- 48 BO'NEY, a familiar contraction of Bo'naparte (3 _syl_.), used by the English in the early part of the nineteenth century by way of depreciation. Thus Thom. Moore speaks of "the infidel Boney."BONHOMME (_Jacques_), a peasant who interfe
- 49 [Ill.u.s.tration] Sir Bors de Granis is quite another person, and so is king Bors of Gaul.BORRO'MEO (_Charles_), cardinal and archbishop of Milan. Immortalized by his self-devotion in ministering at Mil'an to the plague-stricken (1538-1584).St.
- 50 BOUNTY (_Mutiny of the_), in 1790, headed by Fletcher Christian. The mutineers finally settled in Pitcairn Island (Polynesian Archipelago).In 1808 all the mutineers were dead except one (Alexander Smith), who had changed his name to John Adams, and became
- 51 Mrs. Bellamy took her leave of the stage May 24, 1785. On this occasion Mrs. Yates sustained the part of the "d.u.c.h.ess of Braganza,"and Miss Farren spoke the address.--F. Reynolds.BRAGELA, daughter of Sorglan, and wife of Cuthullin (general o
- 52 BRAZEN (_Captain_), a kind of Bobadil. A boastful, tongue-doughty warrior, who pretends to know everybody; to have a liaison with every wealthy, pretty, or distinguished woman; and to have achieved in war the most amazing prodigies.BRAZEN HEAD. The first
- 53 The rainbow bridge which spans heaven and earth in Scandinavian mythology is called "Bif'rost."BRIDGE OF GOLD. According to German tradition, Charlemagne's spirit crosses the Rhine on a golden bridge, at Bingen, in reasons of plenty, a
- 54 The effigy of Britannia on British copper coin dates from the reign of Charles II. (1672), and was engraved by Roetier from a drawing by Evelyn. It is meant for one of the king's court favorites, some say Frances Theresa Stuart, d.u.c.h.ess of Richmo
- 55 _Bruin_ (_Mrs._ and _Mr._), daughter and son-in-law to sir Jacob Jollup. Mr. Bruin is a huge bear of a fellow, and rules his wife with scant courtesy.--S. Foote, _The Mayor of Garratt_ (1763).BRULGRUD'DERY (_Dennis_), landlord of the Red Cow, on Muck
- 56 _Buckingham_ (_Mary d.u.c.h.ess of_), introduced by sir W. Scott in _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).BUCKLAW (_The laird of_), afterwards laird of Girnington. His name was Frank Hayston. Lucy Ashton plights her troth to Edgar master of Ravenswood
- 57 BURCh.e.l.l (_Mr._), _alias_ sir William Thornhill, about thirty years of age. When Dr. Primrose, the vicar of Wakefield, loses 1400, Mr.Burch.e.l.l presents himself as a broken-down gentleman, and the doctor offers him his purse. He turns his back on the
- 58 BUZ'FUZ (_Sergeant_), the pleader retained by Dodson and Fogg for the plaintiff in the celebrated case of "Bardell _v._ Pickwick." Sergeant Buzfuz is a driving, chaffing, masculine bar orator, who proved that Mr. Pickwick's note about
- 59 _Canterbury Tales_ ("The Monk's Tale," 1388).Plutarch expressly tells us he was killed in Pompey's Porch or Piazza; and in _Julius Caesar_ Shakespeare says he fell "e'en at the base of Pompey's statue" (act iii. sc.
- 60 CALEPINE (_Sir_), the knight attached to Sere'na (canto 3). Seeing a bear carrying off a child, he attacked it, and squeezed it to death, then committed the babe to the care of Matilde, wife of sir Bruin. As Matilde had no child of her own, she adopt
- 61 Some consider it to be Gozo, near Malta. Ogygia (_not the island_) is Boeo'tia, in Greece.CAMA'CHO, "richest of men," makes grand preparations for his wedding with Quite'ria, "fairest of women," but as the bridal party a
- 62 _The lady Caroline Campbell_, sister of lady Mary.--Sir W. Scott, _Heart of Midlothian_ (time, George II.).CAMPEADOR [_Kam.pay'.dor_], the Cid, who was called _Mio Cid el Campeador_ ("my lord the champion"). "Cid" is a corruption
- 63 CAPITAN, a boastful, swaggering coward, in several French farces and comedies prior to the time of Moliere.CAPONSAC'CHI (_Guiseppe_), the young priest under whose protection Pompilia fled from her husband to Rome. The husband and _his_ friends said t
- 64 CARDEN (_Grace_), lovely girl with whom Henry Little (an artisan) and Frederick Coventry, gentleman, are enamored. Beguiled by Coventry into a belief that Little is dead, she consents to the marriage ceremony with his rival. Little reappears on the weddin
- 65 CARRLLLO _(Fray)_ was never to be found in his own cell, according to a famous Spanish epigram.Like Fray Carillo, the only place in which one cannot find him Is his own cell.Longfellow, _The Spanish Student_, i. 5.CAR'ROL, deputy usher at Kenilworth
- 66 Tennyson, _The Princess_, iv.Ca.s.sIUS, instigator of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, and friend of Brutus.--Shakespeare, _Julius Ccesar_ (1607)._Brutus_. The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fe
- 67 CATHUL'LA, king of Inistore (_the Orkneys_) and brother of Coma'la (_q.v._). Fingal, on coming in sight of the palace, observed a beacon-flame on its top as signal of distress, for Frothal king of Sora had besieged it. Fingal attacked Frothal, e
- 68 _Ce'lia_, a poetical name for any lady-love: as "Would you know my Celia's charms ...?" Not unfrequently Streph'on is the wooer when Celia is the wooed. Thomas Carew calls his "sweet sweeting" Celia; her real name is not
- 69 CHAON'IAN BIRD _(The)_, the dove; so called because doves delivered the oracles of Dodona or Chaon'ia.But the mild swallow none with, toils infest, And none the soft Chaonian bird molest.Ovid, _Art of Love_, ii.CHAONIAN FOOD, acorns, so called f
- 70 Scott, _Fair Maid of Perth_ (time, Henry IV.).CHARTIST CLERGYMAN _(The)_, Rev. Charles Kingsley (1809-1877).CHARYLLIS, in Spenser's pastoral _Colin Clout's Come Home Again_, is lady Compton. Her name was Anne, and she was the fifth of the six da
- 71 CHEVERIL (_Hans_), the ward of Mordent, just come of age. Impulsive, generous, hot-blooded. He resolves to be a rake, but scorns to be a villain. However, he accidentally meets with Joanna "the deserted daughter," and falls in love with her. He
- 72 CHITLING (_Tom_), one of the a.s.sociates of f.a.gin the Jew. Tom Chitling was always most deferential to the "Artful Dodger."--C. d.i.c.kens, _Oliver Twist_ (1837).CHIVALRY (_The Flower of_), William Douglas, lord of Liddesdale (fourteenth cent
- 73 (1889.) CHRIS'TOPHER _(St.)_, a saint of the Roman and Greek Churches, said to have lived in the third century. His pagan name was Offerus, his body was twelve ells in height, and he lived in the land of Canaan. Offerus made a vow to serve only the m
- 74 _The Christian Cicero_, Lucius Coelius Lactantius (died 330)._The German Cicero_, Johann Sturm, printer and scholar (1507-1589).CICELY (_Sweet_). Heroine of novel by Marietta Holley, better known as "Josiah Allen's wife." (1885)._Cicely Hum
- 75 Arthur Orton, who claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne (drowned at sea).He was non-suited and sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment for perjury (1871-1872).CLAIRE TWINING, daughter of a refined man, the scion of an old English family and a vulgar wo
- 76 CLAYPOLE _(Noah), alias_ "Morris Bolter," an ill-conditioned charity-boy, who takes down the shutters of Sowerberry's shop and receives broken meats from Charlotte (Sowerberry's servant), whom he afterwards marries.--C. d.i.c.kens, _Ol
- 77 CLEVE'LAND _(Barbara Villiers, d.u.c.h.ess of)_, one of the mistresses of Charles II., introduced by Sir W. Scott in _Peveril of the Peak_._Cleve'land_ (Captain Clement), alias Vaughan [_Vawn_], "the pirate,"son of Norna of the Fitful
- 78 CLUB-BEARER _(The)_, Periphe'tes, the robber of Ar'golis, who murdered his victims with an iron club.--_Greek Fable_.CLUMSEY _(Sir Tunbelly_), father of Miss Hoyden. A mean, ill-mannered squire and justice of the peace, living near Scarborough.
- 79 COLEMI'RA (_3 syl._), a poetical name for a cook. The word is compounded of _coal_ and _mire_."Could I," he cried "express how bright a grace Adorns thy morning hands and well-washed face, Thou wouldst, Colemira, grant what I implore,
- 80 COMEDY OF ERRORS, by Shakespeare (1593), Aemilia, wife of aegeon, had two sons at a birth, and named both of them Antipholus. When grown to manhood, each of these sons had a slave named Dromio, also twin-brothers. The brothers Antipholus had been s.h.i.+p
- 81 _Lady Constant_, wife of Sir Bashful, a woman of spirit, taste, sense, wit, and beauty. She loves her husband, and repels with scorn an attempt to shake her fidelity because he treats her with cold indifference.--A. Murphy, _The Way to Keep Him_ (1760).CO
- 82 Ben Jonson, _Volpone or the Fox_ (1605).Benjamin Johnson [1665-1742] ... seemed to be proud to wear the poet's double name, and was particularly great in all that author's plays that were usually performed, viz "Wasp," in _Bartholomew
- 83 CORMAC I., son of Conar, a Cael, who succeeded his father as "king of Ireland," and reigned many years. In the latter part of his reign the Fir-bolg (or Belgae settled in the south of Ireland), who had been subjugated by Conar, rebelled, and Cor
- 84 COTTER'S SAt.u.r.dAY NIGHT; Poem in which Burns depicts the household of a Scottish peasant gathering about the hearth on the last evening of the week for supper, social converse and family wors.h.i.+p. The picture of the "Saint, the Father and
- 85 CRANE (_Dame Alison_), mistress of the Crane inn, at Marlborough._Gaffer Crane_, the dame's husband.--Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth)._Crane (Ichabod)_, a credulous Yankee schoolmaster. He is described as "tall, exceedingly lank, an
- 86 _The Countess of Crevecour_, wife of the count.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.).CRIB (_Tom_), Thomas Moore, author of _Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress_ (1819).CRILLON. The following story is told of this brave but simple-minded of
- 87 CROQUEMITAINE [_Croak.mit.tain_], the bogie raised by fear. Somewhere near Saragossa was a terrible castle called Fear Fortress, which appeared quite impregnable; but as the bold approached it, the difficulties of access gradually gave way and even the fo
- 88 Peace to their shades! the pure Culdees Were Albyn's _[Scotland's]_ earliest priests of G.o.d, Ere yet an island of her seas By foot of Saxon monk was trod.Campbell, _Reullura_.CULLOCH _(Sawney)_ a pedlar.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, G
- 89 CUTHO'NA, daughter of Rumar, was betrothed to Conlath, youngest son of Morni, of Mora. Not long before the espousals were to be celebrated, Toscar came from Ireland, and was hospitably entertained by Morni. On the fourth day, he saw Cuthona out hunti
- 90 CYN'THIA WARE. Auburn-haired girl living upon Lost Creek in Tennessee, in love with Evander Price, a young blacksmith. When he is sent to the penitentiary upon a false accusation, she labors unceasingly for a year to obtain his pardon. A year after i
- 91 d.a.m.nO'NII, the people of d.a.m.nonium, that is, Cornwall, Devon, Dorsets.h.i.+re, and part of Somersets.h.i.+re. This region, says Richard of Cirencester (_Hist._ vi. 18), was much frequented by the Phoenician, Greek, and Gallic merchants, for the
- 92 DAN'NISCHEMEND, the Persian sorcerer, mentioned in Donnerhugel's narrative.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).DANTe AND BEATRICE. Some say that Beatrice, in Dante's _Divina Commedia_, merely personifies faith; others think it a rea
- 93 Morn broadened on the borders of the dark, Ere I saw her who clasped in her last trance Her murdered father's head.The head of the young earl of Derwent-water was exposed on Temple Bar in 1716. His wife drove in a cart under the the arch, and a man, hire
- 94 _Mrs. Day_, wife of the "justice," full of vulgar dignity, overbearing, and loud. She was formerly the kitchen-maid of her husband's father; but being raised from the kitchen to the parlor, became my lady paramount.In the comedy from which this farce i
- 95 Zeuxis, the painter, died of laughter at sight of a hag which he had just depicted.DEATH RIDE (_The_), the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava, October 25, 1854. In this action 600 English hors.e.m.e.n, under the earl of Cardigan, charged a Russian f
- 96 DELTA [Ill.u.s.tration] of _Blackwood_ is D.M.Moir (1798-1851).DEL'VILLE (2 _syl_.), one of the guardians of Cecilia. He is a man of wealth and great ostentation, with a haughty humility and condescending pride, especially in his intercourse with his soc
- 97 DESDEMO'NA, daughter of Brabantio, a Venetian senator, in love with Oth.e.l.lo the Moor (general of the Venetian army). The Moor loves her intensely, and marries her; but Iago, by artful villainy, induces him to believe that she loves Ca.s.sio too well.
- 98 Remember Dhu'lnun, when he departed in wrath, and thought that we could not exercise our power over him.--_Al Koran_, xxi.DIAFOIRUS (_Thomas_), son of Dr. Diafoirus. He is a young medical milksop, to whom Argan has promised his daughter Angelique in marr
- 99 DIDDLER (_Jeremy_), an artful swindler; a clever, seedy vagabond, who borrows money or obtains credit by his songs, witticisms, or other expedients.--Kenny, _Raising the Wind_.DIDERICK, the German form of Theodorick, king of the Goths. As Arthur is the ce
- 100 Scott, _Bride of Lammermoor_ (time William III.).DINIAS AND DERCYLLIS (_The Wanderings, Adventures, and Loves of_), an old Greek novel, the basis of the romance of Antonius Diog'enes in twenty-four books and ent.i.tled _Incredible Things beyond Thule_ [_