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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

_Illustration_ _Artist_ KATRINA VAN TASSEL (_colored_) E. A. ABBEY RICHELIEU (BOOTH AS) ROSALIND AND ORLANDO SHOP (THE) OF FIGARO J. J. ARANDA THEODORA BENJAMIN CONSTANT TINY TIM (BOB CRACHIT AND) FREDERICK BARNARD WELLERS (THE TWO) FREDERICK BARNARD WOTAN TAKES LEAVE OF BRUNH...

Chapters

7. Canto iv. 13, etc.

=U´na=, truth; so called because truth is one. She goes, leading a lamb and riding on a white ass, to the court of Gloriana, to crave that one of her knights might undertake to...

15. i. 1715; Macpherson, 1773; Morrice, 1809; Brandreth, 1846; Barter,

1854; Newman, 1856; Wright, 1859; Selwyn, 1865; Green, 1865; Simcox, 1865; Dart, 1865; Herschel, 1866; Lord Derby, 1867; Merivale, 1869; Cordery, 1870; Newman, 1871. The followi...

5. Act ii. sc. 4 (1593).

=Ter´il= (_Sir Walter_). The king exacts an oath from Sir Walter to send his bride, Cælestina, to court on her wedding night. Her father, to save her honor, gives her a mixture...

4. act ii. sc. 4 (1598).

The lion hates the game-cock, and is jealous of it. Some say because the cock wears a crown (its crest), and others because it comes into the royal presence “booted and spurred.”

6. act iv. sc. 3.)

The French kings claimed the same divine power from Anne of Clovis, A.D. 481. And on Easter Sunday, 1686, Louis XIV. touched 1600, using these words, _Le roy te touche, Dieu te...

2. VOLUME IV.

_Illustration_ _Artist_ KATRINA VAN TASSEL (_colored_) E. A. ABBEY RICHELIEU (BOOTH AS) ROSALIND AND ORLANDO SHOP (THE) OF FIGARO J. J. ARANDA THEODORA BENJAMIN CONSTANT TINY TI...

13. part ii., 1682.

Alexander’s Feast, 1697. Annus Mirabilis, 1667. Astræa Redux, 1660. Britannia Rediviva, 1689. Cromwell (Death of), an elegy, 1658. Fables, 1698-1700. Hind and the Panther (The),...

3. Canto v.

=Spiri´to=, the Holy Ghost as the friend of man, personified in canto ix. of _The Purple Island_, by Phineas Fletcher (1633). He was married to Urania, and their offspring are:...

14. part iv., the Victories of Love, 1862.

Memoir of Barry Cornwall, 1878. Poems, 1844. =Pattison= (Rev. Mark), born at Hornby, in Yorkshire, 1813-1884. Isaac Casaubon, 1875. =Payn= (James), born at Rodney Lodge, Chelten...

12. part ii., 1800;

published 1816. Kubla Khan (a vision), 1816. Poems, 1796. Translation of Wallenstein, 1800. Aids to Reflection, 1825. Biographia Literaria, 1817. Essays on his own Times, 1850....

8. part ii. 1774.

Poems and Translations, 1760. Dissertations, 1783. Elements of Moral Sciences (The), 1790-93. Essay on Poetry and Music, 1778. Essay on Truth, 1770. Essays, 1776. Evidences of C...

10. part iii., 1678.

=Byron= (George Noel Gordon, lord), London, 1788-1824. Beppo, 1818. Bride of Abydos, 1813. Cain, 1821. Childe Harold, canto i., 1809; ii., 1810; iii., 1816; iv., 1818. Corsair (...

9. part ii., 1684.

=Burke= (Edmund), of Dublin, 1730-1797. Inquiry into our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1756. Present State of the Nation (The), 1769. Reflections on the French Revolution,...

11. part iv. (Jurisdiction of Courts), 1644.

=Colenso= (John William), 1814-1883. Criticism on _The Speaker’s Commentary_, 1871. _Epistle to the Romans_ (The), 1861. Lectures on the Pentateuch, 1873. Natal Sermons, 1866. P...

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