Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookBrewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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=Ha´garenes= (3 _syl._), the descendants of Hagar. The Arabs and the
Spanish Moors are so called.
Often he [_St. James_] hath been seen conquering and destroying the
Hagarenes.—Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. iv. 6 (1615).
=Hagenbach= (_Sir Archibald von_), governor of La Frette.—Sir W. Scott,
_Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).
=Hahlreiner= (_Fraulein_). The Münich landlady who accompanies H.H. as
maid in her travels through Germany. During the jaunt she learns so much
of other landlord’s ways and manners that “I fear me from this time
henceforth, the lodgers in my dear Fraulein’s house will not find it
such a marvel of cheap comfort as we did.”—Helen Hunt Jackson, _Bits of
Travel_ (1872).
=Haiatal´nefous= (_5 syl._), daughter and only child of Ar´manys, king
of the “Isle of Ebony.” She and Badoura were the two wives of Prince
Camaral´zaman, and gave birth at the same time to two princes. Badoura
called her son Amgiad (“the most glorious”), and Haiatalnefous called
her’s Assad (“the most happy”).—_Arabian Nights_ (“Camaralzaman and
Badoura”).
=Haidée=, “the beauty of the Cycladês,” was the daughter of Lambro, a
Greek pirate, living in one of the Cycladês. Her mother was a Moorish
maiden of Fez, who died when Haidee was a mere child. Being brought up
in utter loneliness, she was wholly Nature’s child. One day, Don Juan
was cast on the shore, the only one saved from a shipwrecked crew,
tossed about for many days in the long-boat. Haidée lighted on the lad,
and, having nursed him in a cave, fell in love with him. A report being
heard that Lambro was dead, Don Juan gave a banquet, but in the midst of
the revelry, the old pirate returned, and ordered Don Juan to be seized
and sold as a slave. Haidée broke a blood-vessel from grief and fright,
and, refusing to take any nourishment, died.—Byron, _Don Juan_, ii. 118;
iii., iv. (1819, 1821).
=Haimon= (_The Four Sons of_), the title of a minnesong in the
degeneracy of that poetic school, which rose in Germany with the house
of Hohenstaufen, and went out in the middle of the thirteenth century.
=Hair.= Every three days, when Cor´sina combed the hair of Fairstar and
her two brothers, “a great many valuable jewels were combed out, which
she sold at the nearest town.”—Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_
(“Princess Fairstar,” 1682).
“I suspected,” said Corsina, “that Cherry is not the brother of
Fairstar, for he has neither a star nor collar of gold as Fairstar and
her brothers have.” “That’s true,” rejoined her husband; “but jewels
fall out of his hair, as well as out of the others.”—_Princess
Fairstar_.
_Hair._ Mrs. Astley, an actress of the last century, wife of “Old
Astley,” could stand up and cover her feet with her flaxen hair.
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