Identifier: charactersketche00inbrew (find matches)
Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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as the avenger of his fathers death. Orestes, in order to deceive ./Egisthus. sends a messenger to say that hehas been hilled at the Olympic games. As a proof of this report the messengertakes with hint an tint containing what are supposed to be the ashes of Orestesand gives it to Electra. From the Electra of Sophocles we take Electras lament over the -urncontaining her brothers ashes: O monument of him dearest to me among mankind, relic of the livingOrestes, with hopes how changed from those with which I once sent thee forth,do I receive thee back I For now J bear thee in my hands, a nothing; butfrom thy home, my brother, I sent thee blooming forth. But now, far fromthine home, and in a foreign land an exile, miserably hast thou perished,away from thy sister ; nor with loving hands have I prepared the bath for thybody, nor from the all-consuming pyre borne away the hapless burden withaccustomed rites. No, but cared for by stranger hands thou art come: alittle weight in a little urn.
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ELECTRA. i ELION 367 ELIZABETH Elion, conriort of Beruth, and father ofChe.—Sanehoniathon. Eliot (John). Of the Apostle to theNorth American Indians, Dr. CottonMather writes: He that will write of Eliot must write ofcharity, or say nothing. His charity was a starof the first magnitude in the bright constellationof his virtues, and the Iays of it were wonder-fully various and extensive.—Cotton Mather,Magna Ghristi Americana (1702). Eliot (George), Marian Evans (or Mrs.Marian Lewes), author of Adam Bede(1858), Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner(1861), etc. Elisa, often written Eliza in English,Dido, queen of Carthage. . . . nee me meminisse pigebit EKsse,Dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regetartus. VirgU, JEneid, iv. 335, 336. So to Eliza dawned that cruel dayWhich tore JBneas from her sight away,That saw him parting, never to return,Herself in funeral flames decreed to bum.Falconer, The Shipwrech, in. 4 (1756). Elisabat, a famous surgeon, whoattended Queen Madasima in all h

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