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
=Philip Nolan=, officer in U. S. Navy, condemned by president of court
martial for complicity with Aaron Burr, and for swearing at the United
States, “never to hear the name of the United States again.” He is
passed from one man-of-war to another, never allowed to converse upon
national affairs, to see a U. S. newspaper or read a history of the
United States, until homesick and heartsick, after an exile of
fifty-five years, he dies, praying for the country that had disowned
him.--Edward Everett Hale, _The Man Without a Country_ (1863).
=Philip Nye=, brought up for the Anglican Church, but became a
Presbyterian, and afterwards an independent. He was noted for the cut of
his beard.
This reverend brother, like a goat,
Did wear a tail upon his throat.
But set in such a curious frame,
As if ’twere wrought in filograin,
And cut so even, as if ’t had been
Drawn with a pen upon his chin.
S. Butler, _On Philip Nye’s Thanksgiving Beard_ (1652).
=Philip Ogden=, lover and hero in Blanche Willis Howard’s _One Summer_. He
is nearly blinded by the point of Leigh’s umbrella at their first
meeting, and after an idyllic courtship they are wedded (1875).
=Philip Quarl=, a castaway-sailor, who becomes a hermit. His “man Friday”
is a chimpanzee.--_Philip Quarl_ (1727).
=Philip’s Four Daughters.= We are told, in _Acts_ xxi. 9, that Philip, the
deacon or evangelist, had four daughters which did prophesy.
Helen, the mother of great Constantine,
Nor yet St. Philip’s daughters, were like thee [_Joan of Arc_].
Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 2 (1589).
=Philippe=, a parched and haggard wretch, infirm and bent beneath a pile
of years, yet shrewd and cunning, greedy of gold, malicious, and looked
upon by the common people as an imp of darkness. It was this old villain
who told Thancmar that the provost of Bruges was the son of a serf on
Thancmar’s estates.--S. Knowles, _The Provost of Bruges_ (1836).
=Philippe Egalité=, (4 _syl._), Louis Philippe, duc d’Orléans (1747-1793).
=Philipson= (_The elder_), John, earl of Oxford, an exiled Lancastrian,
who goes to France disguised as a merchant.
_Arthur Philipson_, Sir Arthur de Vere, son of the earl of Oxford, whom
he accompanies to the court of King René of Provence.--Sir W. Scott,
_Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).
=Phil´isides= (3 _syl._), Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).
It was the harp of Phil´isides, now dead....
And now in heaven a sign it doth appear,
The Harp well known beside the Northern Bear.
Spenser, _The Ruins of Time_ (1591).
⁂ _Phili[p] Sid[ney]_, with the Greek termination, makes _Phili-sides_.
Bishop Hall calls the word _Phil-is´-ides_: “Which sweet Philis´ides
fetched of late from France.”
=Philistines=, a title complacently bestowed, in England and America, by
the advance-guard in literature and art, on the Conservatives. The
French equivalent is “les bourgeois.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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