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striving to live according to the "dignity and honor of 

 man." He tries to hide his poverty under bold speech 

 even when found doing menial service. 



Battle, Sarah. Essays of Ella, Lamb. Sarah 

 considered whist the business of life and literature one 

 of the relaxations. When a young gentleman, of a liter- 

 ary turn, said to her he had no objection to unbend his 

 mind for a little time by taking a hand with her, Sarah 

 declared "Whist was her life business; her duty; the 

 thing she came into the world to do. She unbent her 

 mind afterwards over a book." 



Bayard. Old Poems and Romances. Bayard 

 was a famous horse belonging to the four sons of Am yon, 

 a semi-mythical character. He seemed but an ordinary 

 horse when one person rode, but if the four mounted, the 

 horse accommodatingly grew in length. Among won- 

 derful thmirs related of him his hoof-prints have been 

 found on rocks and in deep forests. Bayard is also 

 known as the property of Amadis de Gaul in an old 

 Portuguese romance. He was found under the watch of 

 a dragon whom a wizard knight charmed and then 

 rescued the horse. In French tales Bayard is repre- 

 resented to be yet living in some of the forests of France 

 but disappears when disturbed. Bayard is also the 

 name of the horse belonging to Fitz-James in Scott's 

 : Lady-of-the-Lake. "Bayardo's Leap" belongs 



to this story. It is said that Rinaldo was riding on his 

 favorite steed, when a demon sprang behind him, but 

 the animal in terror took three tremendous leaps and 

 unhorsed the fiend. 



Bayes. The Rehearsal, George Villiers. This 

 farce, or satire, was written about the year 1670 and its 

 wit has been much quoted. In its present form the hero, 

 Bayes. is intended to represent Dryden as at the head of 

 heroic rhymes. He is shown as greedy for applause; 

 impatient of censure or criticism; inordinately vain, yet 

 obsequious to those who. he hopes, will gratify him by 

 returning his flattery, and. finally, as anxiously mindful 

 of the minute parts of what, even in the whole, is scarce 

 worthy of attention. " 



K a trice. Divine Comedy, Dante. Daughter of 

 an illustrious family of Florence for whom Dante had 

 a irr.-at love. In his poem she is represented as being his 

 guide through paradise. Beatrice is also the* name of 

 the heroine of Shakespere's "Much Ado About Nothing." 

 Of h>r Mrs. Jameson says: "The extraordinary success 

 of this play in Shakespere's own day, and ever since, 

 in England, is to be ascribed more particularly to 

 the parts of Benedict and Beatrice, two humorsome 

 beings, who incessantly attack each other with all the 

 resources of raillery. In Beatrice, high intellect and 

 high animal spirits meet, and excite each other like 

 fire and air. In her wit there is a touch of insolence, 

 n.t infrequent in women when the wit predominates 

 over reflection and imagination. In her temper, too. 

 :s a slight infusion of the termagant. But Bea- 

 t hugh willful, is not wayward; she is volatile, 

 not unfeeling." 



Beauty and the Beast. Fairy Tale, Mme. Ville- 

 m-iivp. Oft-repeated in stories for children. Beauty 

 jin-i the Beast are known in many forms. In the original 

 tale young and lovely Beauty saved the life of her father 

 by putting herself in the power of a frightful, but kind- 

 hearted. monster, whose respectful affection and deep 

 melancholy finally overcame her aversion to his hideous- 

 ness, and induced her to consent to marry him. By her 

 Beast was set free from enchantment and allowed 

 to assume his own form, a handsome and graceful young 



Bede, Adam. Adam Bode, George Eliot. An 

 ideal workman, hero of the novel. 



lt< divere. Tales of tin Hound Table, l 

 was the last knight of King Arthur's Hound Table. He 

 had served as a butler, was of much importance and was 

 sent by the dying king to throw his sword. Excalibar, 

 the lake. A hand and arm rose from the lake, 

 caught the sword, flourished it three times and sank. 

 Bedivere watched King Arthur's departure for Avalon. 

 th- "lsl of th. Blest?' 11,; is noticed, 



the name Bedver. in Geoff ry 



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 Itathnal Green. a 



n as the Beggar's daughter . 



beautiful girl named Bessie, who is wooed by a knight. 

 nixl whose fiith, - r turn* out to be a son of Simon de Moat- 

 guise as a blind beggar. The story was 

 y Sheridan Knowles. 



i,. gji i,, MX. iu, mi, N,,.I,I. Shaken 

 i\. r.-ire-free fi-llow, type 



incla. U ; .,M-of MM- i o, u. Pop,-. Poetical. 

 ' heroine whose real name 

 a frolic Lord Pet 



great friendship between the two families. The poem, 

 "Rape of the Lock," was written to bring the people 

 into a better temper and lead to reconciliation. Belinda 

 is also the name of the heroine in a novel written by 

 Maria Edgeworth. 



Bell, Adam. Old Ballad. A famous wild outlaw 

 belonging to the north country and celebrated for his 

 skill as an archer. 



Bell, Laura. Pendennls, Thackeray. One of the 

 sweetest heroines in English Literature. 



Bell-man. L'AllPKrn. Milton. The watchman 

 who patrolled the streets and called out the hour of night. 

 Sometimes he repeated scraps of pious poetry in order to 

 charm away danger. 



Bell, Peter. Peter Bell, a Tale in verse, Words- 

 worth. A wandering tinker, subject of Wordsworth's 

 poem, whose hard heart was touched by the fidelity of an 

 ass to its dead master. Shelley wrote a burlesque of this 

 poem, entitled "Peter Bell the Third," intended to ridi- 

 cule the ludicrous puerility of language and sentiment 

 which Wordsworth often affected. This burlesque was 

 given the name of the Third because it followed a parody, 

 already published as "Peter the Second." 



Bel I-t he-Cat. Name given to a nobleman at Lauder, 

 Scotland, early in the Sixteenth Century. King James II. 

 called an assembly of Scottish barons to resist a threat- 

 ened invasion of his realm by Edward IV., of England. 

 After long discussion one of the barons related the nur- 

 sery tale of a convention of mice in which it was proposed 

 to hang a bell on the cat's neck, to give warning of her 

 presence. No one would serve on the Mouse Committee. 

 To the story Archibald Douglas responded by saying 

 "I will bell the cat" and was afterward known by the 

 name, Bell-the-cat. 



Beloved Physician. Bible. Name given to St. 

 Luke and first suggested in the Apostle Paul's letter to 

 the Colossians. 



liclphoebe. Faery Queen, Spencer. A delicate 

 and graceful flattery bffered to Queen Elizabeth through 

 the huntress, Belphoebe, intended as a likeness of the 

 Queen. The name taken from belle, meaning beautiful, 

 and Phoebe, a name sometimes bestowed on Diana. 



Belvawney, Miss. Nicholas Nickleby, Dickens. 

 She belonged to the wonderful Portsmouth theater, 

 always took the part of a page and gloried in silk stock- 

 ings. 



Helviclera. Venire Preserved, Otway. The beau- 

 tiful heroine of the almost forgotten tragedy. Sir Wal- 

 ter Scott said "more tears have been shed, probably, for 

 the sorrows of Belvidera and Moninia than for those of 

 Juliet and Desdemona." 



Benedick. Much Ado About Nothing, Shake- 

 spere. A young lord of Padua who is gentleman, wit, 

 and soldier. He was a pronounced bachelor, but after 

 a courtship full of witty sayings ami coquetry he marries 

 the lovely Beatrice. From this gentleman c. 

 name Benedick or Benedict, applied to married men who 

 were not going to marry. 



Benensrell, Cld ii.nn.-t. Don Qiilxoti . <<r\.m- 

 tes. Supposed to be a writer of chronicles among the 

 Moors and claimed as authority for the tales of adventure 

 recorded by Cervantes. The name, Cid Hamet, has been 

 often quoted by writers. 



lien llur. (..-in-i.ii I,ew Wallace. Messala. the 

 Roman playmate and young friend of Hen Hur, after- 

 ward became his remorseless enemy. Ambitious, hard, 

 and cruel, when he came into power he made Ben Hur 

 a galley slave, confiscated his property and imprisoned 

 the mother and sister. Ben Hur escaped, returned 

 later as a wealthy Roman, and entered in the famous 

 chariot race against Messala who had put up enormous 

 sums in wagers. Messala recognirea Ben Hur and 

 hoped to win the race and bring him to final ruin ; but 

 Messala himself was thrown and seriously injured. 

 His cruelties were made known and he was at last slain 

 by his wife. Isas, the daughter of Balthasar. 



H.rm.t. Airs. \m,i,... I,. Ming. An Improper 



Iti-iiMilln. KOMI,-.. :mil .luli.-t. S|,.,K, 



.<* friends who would "quarrel with a man 

 that had a hair more or a hair less in his beard than he 

 ha. I." M.r.utio says to him. "Thou hast quarreled 

 with a man for coughing in the street." 



HemMilf. Ain:l.-s;,x,m 1',.,-m. 1 1. was a Gothio 

 warrior who f.|,-w the moi,-ti-r ( ir.-i..l.-l. wl.ich infested the 

 {great hall of Hmthg.. 



spere. great poem of over 6,000 lines is livi<le<l into two parts. 

 The first part describes the beautiful palace of Km 



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wan raid to be Arabella 



Petre cut a lock ( 

 lady's hair, this was so much resented that it broke the 



Hrothgar, the ravages wrought by the fiend Grendel 

 and his mother, and the deliverance wrought by the 

 hero Beowulf. I ho second part describe* the combat 

 between the iuml Kinjt Bsowotf and the draiton which 

 was wasting the land of the Goths. The Beowulf who 



