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
=Sur´ya= (2 _syl._), the sun-god, whose car is drawn by seven green
horses, the charioteer being Dawn.--Sir W. Jones, _From the Veda_.
=Susanna=, the wife of Joacim. She was accused of adultery by the Jewish
elders, and condemned to death; but Daniel proved her innocence, and
turned the criminal charge on the elders themselves.--_History of
Susanna._
=Susannah=, in Sterne’s novel entitled _The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman_ (1759).
=Suspicions Husband= (_The_), a comedy by Dr. Hoadly (1747). Mr.
Strictland is suspicious of his wife, his ward, Jacintha, and Clarinda,
a young lady visitor. With two attractive young ladies in the house,
there is no lack of intrigue, and Strictland fancies that his wife is
the object thereof; but when he discovers his mistake, he promises
reform.
=Sussex= (_The earl of_), a rival of the earl of Leicester, in the court
of Queen Elizabeth; introduced by Sir W. Scott in _Kenilworth_.
=Sut´leme´me= (4 _syl._), a young lady attached to the suite of
Nouron´ihar, the emir’s daughter. She greatly excelled in dressing a
salad.
=Sutor.= _Ne sutor supra Crepĭdam._ A cobbler, having detected an error
in the shoe-latchet of a statue made by Apellês, became so puffed up
with conceit that he proceeded to criticize the legs also; but Apellês
said to him, “Stick to the last, friend.” The cobbler is qualified to
pass an opinion on shoes, but anatomy is quite another thing.
Boswell, one night sitting in the pit of Covent Garden Theatre, with his
friend, Dr. Blair, gave an imitation of a cow lowing, which the house
greatly applauded. He then ventured another imitation, but failed;
whereupon the doctor turned to him and whispered in his ear, “Stick to
the cow.”
A wigmaker sent a copy of verses to Voltaire, asking for his candid
opinion on some poetry he had perpetrated. The witty patriarch of Ferney
wrote on the MS., “Make wigs,” and returned it to the barber-poet.
=Sutton= (_Sir William_), uncle of Hero Sutton, the City maiden.--S.
Knowles, _Woman’s Wit, etc._ (1838).
=Suwarrow= (_Alexander_), a Russian general, noted for his slaughter of
the Poles in the suburbs of Warsaw, in 1794, and the still more shameful
butchery of them on the bridge of Prague. After having massacred 30,000
in cold blood, Suwarrow went to return thanks to God “for giving him the
victory.” Campbell, in his _Pleasures of Hope_, i., refers to this
butchery; and Lord Byron, in _Don Juan_, vii., 8, 55, to the Turkish
expedition (1786-1792).
A town which did a famous siege endure ...
By Suvaroff or _Anglicè_ Suwarrow.
Byron, _Don Juan_, vii. 8 (1824).
=Suzanne=, the wife of Chalomel, the chemist and druggist.--J. R. Ware,
_Piperman’s Predicament_.
=Swallow’s Nest=, the highest of the four castles of the German family
called Landschaden, built on a pointed rock almost inaccessible. The
founder was a noted robber-knight. (See “Swallow.”)
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