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
Allusions; Fiction -- Dictionaries; Literature -- Dictionaries
=Henriette= (_3 syl._), daughter of Chrysale (_2 syl._) and Philaminte
(_3 syl._). She is in love with Clitandre, and ultimately becomes his
wife. Philaminte, who is a blue-stocking, wants Henriette to marry
Trissotin, a _bel esprit_; and Armande the sister, also a _bas bleu_,
thinks that Henriette ought to devote her life to science and
philosophy; but Henriette loves woman’s work far better, and thinks that
her natural province is domestic life, with wifely and motherly duties.
Her father Chrysale takes the same views of woman’s life as his daughter
Henriette, but he is quite under the thumb of his strong-minded wife.
However love at last prevails, and Henriette is given in marriage to the
man of her choice. The French call Henriette “the type of a perfect
woman,” _i.e._, a thorough woman.—Molière, _Les Femmes Savantes_ (1672).
=Henrique= (_Don_), an uxorious lord, cruel to his younger brother Don
Jamie. Don Henrique is the father of Asca´nio, and the supposed husband
of Violan´te (_4 syl._).—Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Spanish Curate_
(1622).
=Henri=, boy, four years old, who, finding his friend “the doctor” bound
naked to a trestle to which he was strapped by pirates, follows his
directions and gnaws asunder the strips of raw hide tying the victim
down, and frees him.—Henry Augustus Wise, U.S.N., _Captain Brand of the
Schooner Centipede_ (1864).
=Henry=, a soldier engaged to Louisa. Some rumors of gallantry to
Henry’s disadvantage having reached the village, he is told that Louisa
is about to be married to another. In his despair he gives himself up as
a deserter, and is condemned to death. Louisa now goes to the king,
explains to him the whole matter, obtains her sweetheart’s pardon, and
reaches the jail just as the muffled drum begins to beat the death
march.—Dibdin, _The Deserter_ (1770).
_Henry_, son of Sir Philip Blandford’s brother. Both the brothers loved
the same lady, but the younger marrying her, Sir Philip, in his rage,
stabbed him, as it was thought, mortally. In due time, the young “widow”
had a son (Henry) a very high-minded, chivalrous young man, greatly
beloved by every one. After twenty years, his father re-appeared under
the name of Morrington, and Henry married his cousin Emma
Blandford.—Thom. Morton, _Speed the Plough_ (1798).
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