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A parish clerk or jack-of-all-trades, in Colman's play called The Review, or Wags of Windsor, which first appeared in 1808. Colman borrowed the character from a farce by Henry Lee (1798)…Brewer's: Duenna
[Lady ]. The female of don. The Spanish don is derived from the Latin dominus =a lord, a master. A duenna is the chief lady-in-waiting on the Queen of Spain; but in common parlance it…Brewer's: Dobby's Walk
The goblin's haunt or beat. Dobby is an archaic word for a goblin or brownie. (See Washington Irving's Bracebridge Hall, ii. 183-6.) Dobby also means an imbecile old man. “The Dobby's walk…Brewer's: Chop-House
(A). An eating-house where chops and steaks are served. “John Bull ... would set up a chop-house at the very gates of paradise.” —Washington Irving: vol. i. chap. vi. p. 61. A Chinese…Brewer's: Sartor Resartus
(The Tailor Patched.) By Thomas Carlyle. Diogenes Teufelsdröckh is Carlyle himself, and Entepfuhl is his native village of Ecclefechan. The Rose Goddess, according to Froude, is Margaret…Brewer's: Sleeper
(The). Epimenides, the Greek poet, is said to have fallen asleep in a cave when a boy, and not to have waked for fifty-seven years, when he found himself possessed of all wisdom. Rip Van…Brewer's: Snickersnee
A large clasp-knife, or combat with clasp-knives. (“Snick,” Icelandic snikka, to clip; verb, snitte, to cut. “Snee” is the Dutch snee, an edge; snijden, to cut.) Thackeray, in his Little…Brewer's: Winkle
(Rip van). A Dutch colonist of New York. He met with a strange man in a ravine of the Kaatskill Mountains. Rip helps him to carry a keg, and when they…Brewer's: Fraserian Group
(The) consists of twenty-seven persons: Maginn. On his right hand, Washington Irving, Mahony, Gleig, Sir E. Brydges, Carlyle, and Count d'Orsay. On his left hand, Barry Cornwall, Southey,…Brewer's: Fraserian
One of the eighty-one celebrated literary characters of the 19th century published in Fraser's Magazine (1830-1838). Amongst them are Harrison Ainsworth, the countess of Blessington,…Trending
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