Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookBrewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Allusions; Fiction -- Dictionaries; Literature -- Dictionaries
_Tulliver_ (_Maggie_), fine, upright, imaginative, affectionate girl,
understood by few, and passionately loved by two men. She resists her
love for her cousin’s almost betrothed, and suffers the loss of
reputation patiently. Tom Tulliver, her brother, is the sternest of
her censors. The two are drowned together in a river-flood.--George
Eliot, _The Mill on the Floss_.
=Tully=, Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great Roman orator (B.C. 106-43).
He was proscribed by Antony, one of the triumvirate, and his head and
hands, being cut off, were nailed, by the orders of Antony, to the
Rostra of Rome.
Ye fond adorers of departed fame,
Who warm at Scipio’s worth or Tully’s name.
Campbell, _Pleasures of Hope_, i. (1799).
The Judas who betrayed Tully to the sicarii was a cobbler. The man who
murdered him was named Herennius.
=Tungay=, the one-legged man at Salem House.
He generally acted, with his strong voice, as Mr. Creakle’s
interpreter to the boys.--C. Dickens, _David Copperfield_, ii. (1849).
=Tunstall= (_Frank_), one of the apprentices of David Ramsay, the
watchmaker.--Sir W. Scott, _The Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.).
=Tupman= (_Tracy_), M.P.C., a sleek, fat young man, of very amorous
disposition. He falls in love with every pretty girl he sees, and is,
consequently, always getting into trouble.--C. Dickens, _The Pickwick
Papers_ (1836).
=Turbulent School of Fiction= (_The_), a school of German romance
writers, who returned to the feudal ages, and wrote between 1780 and
1800, in the style of Mrs. Radcliffe. The best known are Cramer,
Spiers, Schlenkert, and Veit Weber.
=Turcaret=, a comedy by Lesage (1708), in which the farmers-general of
France are gibbeted unmercifully. He is a coarse, illiterate man, who
has grown rich by his trade. Any one who has risen from nothing to
great wealth, and has no merit beyond money-making, is called a
Turcaret.
=Turcos=, native Algerian infantry, officered by Frenchmen. The
cavalry are called _Spahis_.
=Turell= (_Jane_), a fair Puritan, whose early precocity and mature
accomplishments are related by her husband. Before she was four years
old she “could say the Assembly’s Catechism, many of the Psalms, some
hundred lines of the best poetry, read distinctly, and make pertinent
remarks on many things she read.” In later years she fulfilled the
promise thus given of intellectual acquirements, while “her innocence,
modesty, ingenuity and devotion charmed all into admiration of
her.”--Ebenezer Turell, _Memoirs of the Pious and Ingenious Mrs. Jane
Turell_ (1735).
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