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
Amphiarāos, Tirēsias, who was first a woman and then a man, Michael
Scott, the magician, with all witches and diviners (canto xx.); in the
sixth, Caïaphas and Annas, his father-in-law (canto xxiii.); in the
seventh, robbers of churches, as Vanni Fucci, who robbed the sacristy of
St James’ in Pistoia, and charged Venni della Nona with the crime, for
which she suffered death (canto xxiv.); in the eighth, Ulyssês and
Diomed, who were punished for the stratagem of the Wooden Horse (cantos
xxvi., xxvii.); in the ninth, Mahomet and Ali, “horribly mangled” (canto
xxviii.); in the tenth, alchemists (canto xxix.), coiners and forgers,
Potiphar’s wife, Sinon the Greek, who deluded the Trojans (canto xxx.),
Nimrod, Ephialtés, and Antæus, with other giants (canto xxxi.). Antæus
carries the two visitors into the nethermost gulf, where Judas and
Lucifer are confined. It is a region of thick-ribbed ice, and here they
see the frozen river of Cocy´tus (canto xxxii.). The last persons the
poet sees are Brutus and Cassius, the murderers of Julius Cæsar (canto
xxxiv.). Dantê and his conductor, Virgil, then make their exit on the
“southern hemisphere,” where once was Eden, and where the “moon rises
when here evening sets.” This is done that the poet may visit Purgatory,
which is situated in mid-ocean, somewhere near the antipodes of Judea.
⁂ Canto xvi. opens with a description of Fraud, canto xxxiii. contains
the tale of Ugoli´no, and canto xxxiv. the description of Lucifer.
=Ingeborg.= Daughter of a Norwegian king. She is loved as child and
woman by Frithiof, who finally marries her.—_Frithiof Saga._
=Ingelram= (_Abbot_), formerly superior of St. Mary’s Convent.—Sir W.
Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth).
=Inglewood= (_Squire_), a magistrate near Osbaldistone Hall.—Sir W.
Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.).
=Inglis= (_Corporal_), in the royal army under the leadership of the
duke of Monmouth.—Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).
=Ingo=, the son of Ingbert, king of the Vandals. Driven from his throne
by his uncle, he seeks refuge among the Thuringians, where he loves and
marries Irmgard. They are both slain in a siege, leaving one son, an
infant.
=Ingoldsby= (_Thomas_), the Rev. Richard Harris Barham, author of
_Ingoldsby Legends_ (1788-1845).
=Ingraban=, a descendant of the child of Ingo and Irmgard, a wild,
untamed young Pagan, who is finally converted to Christianity under
Bishop Winfried, or Boniface.
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