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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

=George IV. and Mrs. Mary Robinson=, generally called Perdita. Mary
Darby, at the age of 15, married Mr. Robinson, who lived a few months on
credit, and was then imprisoned for debt. Mrs. Robinson sought a
livelihood on the stage, and George IV., then Prince of Wales and a mere
lad, saw her as “Perdita,” fell in love with her, corresponded with her
under the assumed name of “Florizel,” and gave her a bond for £20,000,
subsequently cancelled for an annuity of £500 (1758-1800).

⁂ George IV. was born 1762, and was only 16 in 1778, when he fell in
love with Mrs. Robinson. The young prince suddenly abandoned her, and
after two other love affairs, privately married, at Carleton House (in
1785), Mrs. Fitzherbert, a lady of good family, and a widow, seven years
his senior. The marriage being contrary to the law, he married the
Princess Caroline of Brunswick, in 1795; but still retained his
connection with Mrs. Fitzherbert, and added a new favorite, the Countess
of Jersey.

=George= [DE LAVAL], a friend of Horace de Brienne (2 _syl._). Having
committed forgery, Carlos (_alias_ Marquis d’Antas), being cognizant of
it, had him in his power; but Ogarita (_alias_ Martha) obtained the
document, and returned it to George.—E. Stirling, _Orphan of the Frozen
Sea_ (1856).

=George-a-Green=, the pinner or pound-keeper of Wakefield, one of the
chosen favorites of Robin Hood.

             Veni Wakefield peramænum,
             Ubi quærens Georgium Greenum,
             Non inveni, sed in lignum,
             Fixim reperi Georgii signum,
             Ubi allam bibi feram,
             Donec Georgio fortior eram.
                                    _Drunken Barnaby_ (1640).

           Once in Wakefield town, so pleasant,
           Sought I George-a-Green, the peasant;
           Found him not, but spied instead, sir,
           On a sign, “The George’s Head,” sir:
           Valiant grown with ale like nectar.
           What cared I for George or Hector?

⁂ Robert Green has a drama entitled _George-a-Green, the Pinner of
Wakefield_ (1589).

=Georgian Women= (_The_) Allah, wishing to stock his celestial harem,
commissioned an imaum to select for him forty of the loveliest women he
could find. The imaum journeyed into Frankistan, and from the country of
the Ingliz carried off the king’s daughter. From Germany he selected
other maidens; but when he arrived at Gori (north-west of Tiflis) he
fell in love with one of the beauties, and tarried there. Allah punished
him by death, but the maidens remained in Gori, and became the mothers
of the most beautiful race of mortals in the whole earth.—_A Legend._

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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

=George IV. and Mrs. Mary Robinson=, generally called Perdita. Mary
Darby, at the age of 15, married Mr. Robinson, who lived a few months on
credit, and was then imprisoned for debt. Mrs. Robinson sought a
livelihood on the stage, and George IV., then Prince of Wales and a mere
lad, saw her as “Perdita,” fell in love with her, corresponded with her
under the assumed name of “Florizel,” and gave her a bond for £20,000,
subsequently cancelled for an annuity of £500 (1758-1800).

⁂ George IV. was born 1762, and was only 16 in 1778, when he fell in
love with Mrs. Robinson. The young prince suddenly abandoned her, and
after two other love affairs, privately married, at Carleton House (in
1785), Mrs. Fitzherbert, a lady of good family, and a widow, seven years
his senior. The marriage being contrary to the law, he married the
Princess Caroline of Brunswick, in 1795; but still retained his
connection with Mrs. Fitzherbert, and added a new favorite, the Countess
of Jersey.

=George= [DE LAVAL], a friend of Horace de Brienne (2 _syl._). Having
committed forgery, Carlos (_alias_ Marquis d’Antas), being cognizant of
it, had him in his power; but Ogarita (_alias_ Martha) obtained the
document, and returned it to George.—E. Stirling, _Orphan of the Frozen
Sea_ (1856).

=George-a-Green=, the pinner or pound-keeper of Wakefield, one of the
chosen favorites of Robin Hood.

             Veni Wakefield peramænum,
             Ubi quærens Georgium Greenum,
             Non inveni, sed in lignum,
             Fixim reperi Georgii signum,
             Ubi allam bibi feram,
             Donec Georgio fortior eram.
                                    _Drunken Barnaby_ (1640).

           Once in Wakefield town, so pleasant,
           Sought I George-a-Green, the peasant;
           Found him not, but spied instead, sir,
           On a sign, “The George’s Head,” sir:
           Valiant grown with ale like nectar.
           What cared I for George or Hector?

⁂ Robert Green has a drama entitled _George-a-Green, the Pinner of
Wakefield_ (1589).

=Georgian Women= (_The_) Allah, wishing to stock his celestial harem,
commissioned an imaum to select for him forty of the loveliest women he
could find. The imaum journeyed into Frankistan, and from the country of
the Ingliz carried off the king’s daughter. From Germany he selected
other maidens; but when he arrived at Gori (north-west of Tiflis) he
fell in love with one of the beauties, and tarried there. Allah punished
him by death, but the maidens remained in Gori, and became the mothers
of the most beautiful race of mortals in the whole earth.—_A Legend._

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

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