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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

Name: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Author: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Allusions; Fiction -- Dictionaries; Literature -- Dictionaries

=Franklin’s Tale= (_The_), in Chaucer’s _Canterbury Tales_, is that of
“Dorigen and Arvir´agus.” Dorigen, a lady of rank, married Arviragus,
out of pity for his love and meekness. One Aurelius tried to corrupt
her, but she said she would never listen to his suit till “on these
coasts there n’is no stone y-seen.” Aurelius contrived by magic to clear
the coast of stones, and Arviragus insisted that Dorigen should keep
troth with him. When Aurelius heard thereof, and saw the deep grief of
the lady, he said he would rather die than injure so true a wife and so
noble a gentleman.

⁂ This tale is taken from _The Decameron_, x. 5. (See DIANORA.) There is
also a similar one in Boccaccio’s _Filocopo_.

=Frankly= (_Charles_), a lighted-hearted, joyous, enthusiastic young
man, in love with Clarinda, whom he marries.—Dr. Hoadley, _The
Suspicious Husband_ (1747).

=Frank= (_Warrington_), a young teacher who goes out into the world to
seek her fortune as a governess. She wins the affections of the eldest
son of her employers, and, although preferring at heart an earlier
lover, marries the gay handsome heir secretly. When the truth is
revealed, the bridegroom is killed in a duel by the brother of a woman
to whom he had been betrothed. Frank Warrington, humbler and wiser,
returns to her country home, and eventually marries her first
love.—Mirian Coles Harris, _Frank Warrington_ (1863).

=Franval= (_Madame_), born of a noble family, is proud as the proudest
of the old French _noblesse_. Captain St. Alme, the son of a merchant,
loves her daughter; but the haughty aristocrat looks with disdain on
such an alliance. However, her daughter Marianne is of another way of
thinking, and loves the merchant’s son. Her brother intercedes in her
behalf, and madame makes a virtue of necessity, with as much grace as
possible.—Th. Holcroft, _The Deaf and Dumb_ (1785).

=Fra´teret´to=, a fiend, who told Edgar that Nero was an angler in the
Lake of Darkness.—Shakespeare, _King Lear_ (1605).

=Fraud=, seen by Dantê between the sixth and seventh circles of the
Inferno.

          His face the semblance of a just man’s wore
          (So kind and gracious was its outward cheer).
          The rest was serpent all.
                                 Dantê, _Hell_, xvii. (1300).

=Fred= or Frederick Lewis, prince of Wales, father of George III. It was
of this prince that the following epitaph was written:

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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookBrewer, Ebenezer Cobham

General

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

=Franklin’s Tale= (_The_), in Chaucer’s _Canterbury Tales_, is that of
“Dorigen and Arvir´agus.” Dorigen, a lady of rank, married Arviragus,
out of pity for his love and meekness. One Aurelius tried to corrupt
her, but she said she would never listen to his suit till “on these
coasts there n’is no stone y-seen.” Aurelius contrived by magic to clear
the coast of stones, and Arviragus insisted that Dorigen should keep
troth with him. When Aurelius heard thereof, and saw the deep grief of
the lady, he said he would rather die than injure so true a wife and so
noble a gentleman.

⁂ This tale is taken from _The Decameron_, x. 5. (See DIANORA.) There is
also a similar one in Boccaccio’s _Filocopo_.

=Frankly= (_Charles_), a lighted-hearted, joyous, enthusiastic young
man, in love with Clarinda, whom he marries.—Dr. Hoadley, _The
Suspicious Husband_ (1747).

=Frank= (_Warrington_), a young teacher who goes out into the world to
seek her fortune as a governess. She wins the affections of the eldest
son of her employers, and, although preferring at heart an earlier
lover, marries the gay handsome heir secretly. When the truth is
revealed, the bridegroom is killed in a duel by the brother of a woman
to whom he had been betrothed. Frank Warrington, humbler and wiser,
returns to her country home, and eventually marries her first
love.—Mirian Coles Harris, _Frank Warrington_ (1863).

=Franval= (_Madame_), born of a noble family, is proud as the proudest
of the old French _noblesse_. Captain St. Alme, the son of a merchant,
loves her daughter; but the haughty aristocrat looks with disdain on
such an alliance. However, her daughter Marianne is of another way of
thinking, and loves the merchant’s son. Her brother intercedes in her
behalf, and madame makes a virtue of necessity, with as much grace as
possible.—Th. Holcroft, _The Deaf and Dumb_ (1785).

=Fra´teret´to=, a fiend, who told Edgar that Nero was an angler in the
Lake of Darkness.—Shakespeare, _King Lear_ (1605).

=Fraud=, seen by Dantê between the sixth and seventh circles of the
Inferno.

          His face the semblance of a just man’s wore
          (So kind and gracious was its outward cheer).
          The rest was serpent all.
                                 Dantê, _Hell_, xvii. (1300).

=Fred= or Frederick Lewis, prince of Wales, father of George III. It was
of this prince that the following epitaph was written:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

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