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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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III., who compelled her to diinkpoison which she had prepared for him-self. P. Corneille has made this the sub-ject of his tragedy called Rodogune (1646). *** This is not the Cleopatra of Shake-speares and Drydens tragedies. Cleop)atra. In his Graffiti d^Italia, Will-iam Wetmore Story gives a passionatesoliloquy of the Egyptian Queen, begin-ning :— Here, Charmian, take my bracelets;They bar with a purple stainMy arms. (1868). Clerenioiit (2 syl.), a merry gentle-man, the friend of Dinant.—Beaumont Claudio and Isabella Holman Hunt, Artist * IV. H. Simmons, Engraver Isabella. IVHAT says my brother? Claudio. Death is a fearful thing. Isabella.And shamed life a hateful. Claudio.Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ;To lie in cold obstru£lion and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; . . .The weariest and most loathed worldly life.That age, ache, penury, and imprisonmentCan lay on nature, is a paradiseTo what we fear of death. Shake§peares Measure for Measure.
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CLAUDIO AND ISABELLA. CLEEEMONT 241 CLIFFORD and Fletcher, Tlie Little French Lawyer(1547). Clerimond, uiece of the GreenKnight, sister of Ferragus the giant,and bride of Valentine the hvaYe.^Valen-tlne and Orson. Clerks (St. Nicholases), thieves, alsocalled Bt. jSTieholass Clergymen, inallusion to the. tradition of St. Nicholasand the thieves. Probably a play on thewords Nlch-olas and Old Nick may be de-signed.—See Shakespeaie, 1 Henry LV.act ii. sc. 1 (1597). Clessamnior, son of Thaddu andbrother of Morna (Fingals mother). Hemarried Moina, daughter of Reuthamu(the principal man of Balclutha, on theClyde). It so happened, that Moina wasbeloved by a Briton named Reuda, whocame with an army to carry her off.Reuda was slain by Clessammor; butClessammor, being closely pressed by theBritons, fled, and never again saw hisbride. In due time a son was born, calledCarthon; but the mother died. WhileCarthon was stiU an infant, Fingalsfather attacked Balclutha, and slew Reu-thama (Carthons gr

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