Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookBrewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Allusions; Fiction -- Dictionaries; Literature -- Dictionaries
“By the laws of justice and of the Church she was a queen, although
she was never allowed to reign.... There was about her the
brilliancy of courts and palaces, the enchantment of a love-story,
the suffering of a victim of despotic power.”--Eugene Dìdier, _Life
and Letters of Madame Bonaparte_ (1879).
=Patty=, “the maid of the mill,” daughter of Fairfield, the miller. She
was brought up by the mother of Lord Aimworth, and was promised by her
father in marriage to Farmer Giles; but she refused to marry him, and
became the bride of Lord Aimworth. Patty was very clever, very pretty,
very ingenuous, and loved his lordship to adoration.--Bickerstaff, _The
Maid of the Mill_ (1765).
=Pattypan= (_Mrs._), a widow who keeps lodgings, and makes love to Tim
Tartlet, to whom she is ultimately engaged.
By all accounts, she is just as loving now as she was thirty years
ago.--James Cobb, _The First Floor_, i. 2 (1756-1818).
=Patullo= (_Mrs._), waiting-woman to Lady Ashton.--Sir W. Scott, _Bride of
Lammermoor_ (time, William III.).
=Pau-Puk-Keewis=, a cunning mischief-maker, who taught the North American
Indians the game of hazard, and stripped them, by his winnings, of all
their possessions. In a mad freak Pau-Puk-Keewis entered the wigwam of
Hiawatha and threw everything into confusion; so Hiawatha resolved to
slay him. Pau-Puk-Keewis, taking to flight, prayed the beavers to make
him a beaver ten times their own size. This they did; but when the other
beavers made their escape, at the arrival of Hiawatha, Pau-Puk-Keewis
was hindered from getting away by his great size; and Hiawatha slew him.
His spirit, escaping, flew upwards, and prayed the storm-fools to make
him a “brant” ten times their own size. This was done, and he was told
never to look downwards, or he would lose his life. When Hiawatha
arrived, the “brant” could not forbear looking at him; and immediately
he fell to earth, and Hiawatha transformed him into an eagle.
Now in winter, when the snowflakes
Whirl in eddies round the lodges,...
“There,” they cry, “comes Pau-Puk-Keewis;
He is dancing thro’ the village,
He is gathering in his harvest.”
Longfellow, _Hiawatha_, xvii. (1855).
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