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
Chaucer, in his _Canterbury Tales_, makes the monk briefly tell this
sad story, and calls the count “Hugeline of Pise.”
Oh, thou Pisa, shame!... What if fame
Reported that thy castles were betrayed
By Ugolino, yet no right hadst thou
To stretch his children on the rack ...
Their tender years ... uncapable of guilt.
Dantê, _Hell_, xxxiii. (1300).
Remember Ugolino condescends
To eat the head of his arch-enemy
The moment after he politely ends
His tale.
Byron, _Don Juan_, ii. 83 (1819).
=Ulalume=, the lost love, to the door of whose tomb the poet strays
with “Psyche, his soul.”
And we pass to the end of the vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb,--
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said, “What is written, sweet sister
On the door of this legended tomb?”
She replied, “Ulalume! Ulalume!
’Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!”
Edgar Allan Poe, _Poems_ (1850).
=Ula´nia=, queen of Islanda. She sent a golden shield to Charlemagne,
to be given as a prize to his bravest knight, and whoever won it might
claim the donor in marriage.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_, xv. (1516).
=Ulfin=, the page of Gondibert’s grandsire, and the faithful Achātês
of Gondibert’s father. He cured Gondibert by a cordial kept in his
sword hilt.--Sir W. Davenant, _Gondibert_ (died 1668).
=Ulf=, Celtic husband, who, surprising his wife with her lover,
follows and slays him, then tells her what he has seen, and how
avenged his injured honor, and kills her.--Charles de Kay, _Hesperus
and other Poems_ (1880).
=Ulien’s Son=, Rodomont.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).
=Ulin=, an enchantress who had no power over those who remained
faithful to Allah and their duty; but if any fell into error or sin
she had full power to do as she liked, Thus, when Misnar (sultan of
India) mistrusted the protection of Allah, she transformed him into a
toad. When the Vizier Horam believed a false report, obviously untrue,
she transformed him also into a toad. And when the Princess Hemjunah,
to avoid a marriage projected by her father, ran away with a stranger,
her indiscretion placed her in the power of the enchantress, who
transformed her likewise into a toad. Ulin was ultimately killed by
Misnar, sultan of Delhi, who felled her to the ground with a
blow.--Sir C. Morell [J. Ridley], _Tales of the Genii_, vi., viii.
(1751).
=Ullin=, Fingal’s aged bard, called “the sweet voice of resounding
Cona.”
_Ullin_, the Irish name for Ulster.
He pursued the chase on Ullin, on the moss-covered top of
Drumardo.--Ossian, _Temora_, ii.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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