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Dodson. The Three Warnings, Mrs. Thrale. 

 A youth called upon by Death on his wedding day. 

 Death told him he must go with him. "With you ! " 

 the hapless youth cried, "young as 1 am." Death 

 then told him he would not disturb him yet, but would 

 call again after giving him three warnings. When he 

 was 80 years of age, Death called again. "So soon 

 returned ? " old Dodson cried. " You know you promised 

 me three warnings." Death then told him that as he was 

 "lame, and deaf, and blind," he had received his three 

 ngs. 



Hudson and FORK* The lawyers employed by the 

 plaintiff in the famous case of " Hardell t>. Pickwick." 

 in the "Pickwick Tapers," by Charles Dickens. 



Mo.--. \ ii- iloin and Achitophel.Dryden. Doeg 



was Saul's herdsman, who had charge of his mules ana 



asses. He told Saul that the priests of Nob had pro- 



\\ith food; whereupon Saul sent him to 



put them to death, and eighty-five were ruthlessly 



I >i.'j in- rr\ ;iiid \ o ignorant conceited con- 



in Shakespere's "Much Ado About Nothing." 

 Dolly Murry. A character in Crabbe's "Borough" 

 who was devoted to playing cards. She died at the card 

 table. 



Dolly V.tnliri. Barn a by Undue. Dickens. 

 Daughter of (lahriel Varden, locksmith. Dolly dressed 

 :iu style, and was lively, pretty, and be- 

 ng. 



Dolopa los. Sandabar's Parables. The Sicilian 



kirm. who placed his son Lucien under the charge of 



"seven wise masters." The son fell under the father's 



fury and was condemned to death. By astrology the 



::scovered that if he could tide over seven days 



his life would be saved; so the wise masters amused 



the king with seven tales, and the king relented. The 



:imself then told a tale which embodied his own 



history; the eyes of the king were opened, and the 



queen was condemned to death. 



I )( i in bey. Dombey and Son, Dickens. Mr. 

 Dombey. a self-sufficient, purse-proud, frigid merchant, 

 who feels satisfied there is but one Dombey in the world, 

 and that is himself. When Paul was born, his ambition 

 was attained, his whole heart was in the boy, and the 

 loss of the mother was but a small matter. The boy's 

 death turned his heart to stone. 



Dombey, Florence. A motherless child, hunger- 

 ; thirsting to be loved, but regarded with indif- 

 bv her father, who thinks that sons alone are 

 of regard. 



Domhc>. Little Paul. A pathetic child in Dickens' 

 novel "I>ombey and Son." He is a delicate, thoughtful 

 boy, the only son of a rich and pompous London mer- 

 chant. 



I ><>m-dan'I-el. A cave in the region adjoining 



Babylon, the abode of evil spirits. By some tradition* 



have been originally the spot where the nrophet 



Daniel imparted instruction to his disciples. In 



pother form, the Domdaniel was a purely imaginary 



subterranean, or submarine, the dwelling-place 



of genii and enchanters. 



Do Hiesday Book, or Doo'msday Book, the name 



of one of the oldest and most valuable records of Kngland. 



containing the results of a statistical survey of that 



country made by William the Conqueror, and completed 



in the year 1086. The origin of tjie name wlm-h 



seema to have been given t.> other records of the same 



kind is somewhat uncertain; hut it has obvious 



e to the supreme authoniv of the book in doom 



lionent on the matters contained in it. 



Oollli till .ll l.i-llrr. - lllil.i \ I.i-Hr I . 



the seven letters A. I'.. 0, D, E, F, O, u-ed in a! 



mark the Sundays throughout the year. 'I l.c fir-t 

 vear being marked in their order by 

 the above letters in th"ir order, then the follow ing seven, 

 nnd all consecutive sets of seven days to the end of tin- 

 year are similarly marked; so that the Int. Kth. l.'ith. 

 . H of the year are all marked by A ; and 

 the 2d. 9th, 16th. '2*\. etc.. by B; and so 

 days Mini thus marked, it is evident that on whatever 

 t he year falls, the letter which 



marks it will mark all the other Sundays in the year. 

 as the number of the letters and of the days in the week 

 is the same. As the common year consist* of i 

 weeks and one day over, the dominical letters go back- 

 wards one day every common year. If the dominie*! 



n year be O. F will be the !.- 

 T the next year. 



Don. Inle, >.imps,,n. tiny M ., tin. -rin, . s,,,tt. \ 



village schoolmaster and scholar, poor as a rhun 

 :ind modest as a girl. He ntm Ijitm like a "porcus 

 literm'rum." and exclaims " Prodigious I " He has fallen 

 to the leeward in the voyage of life. He is no 



mon personage in a country where a certain portion of 

 learning is easily attained by those who are willing to 

 suffer nunger and thirst in exchange for acquiring 

 Greek and Latin. 



Don Ad ri-a no de Ar-ma'do. A pompous, fan- 

 tastical Spaniard in Shakespere's " Love's Labor's Lost." 

 " who has a mint of phrases in his brain." His language 

 is fantastically out of proportion to the thought. H 

 uses "examples suited only to the gravest propositions 

 and impersonations, or apostrophes to abstract thoughts 

 impersonated, which are, in fact, the natural language 

 only of the most vehement agitations of the mind. 



pon-a-tel'lo. The hero of Hawthorne's romance 

 "The Marble Faun." He is a young Italian with a 

 singular likeness to the Faun of Praxiteles. He leads 

 an innocent but purely animal existence, until a sudden 

 crime awakens his conscience and transforms his whole 

 nature. 



Don Cher'u-blm. The "Bachelor of Salamanca." 

 in Le Sage's novel of this name; a man placed in dif- 

 ferent situations of life, and made to associate with all 

 classes of society, in order to give the author the greatest 

 possible scope for satire. 



Don'c-gild. Man of Law's Tale, Chaucer. 

 Mother of Alia. King of Northumberland, hating Con- 

 stance, the wife of Alia, because she was a Christian, she 

 put her on a raft with her infant son. and turned her 

 adrift. When Alia returned from Scotland and discov- 

 ered this cruelty of his mother, he put her to death. 

 The tradition of St. Muimo resembles the "Man of Law's 

 Tale" in many respects. 



Don'et, the first grammar put into the hands of 

 scholars. It was that of Dona' t us the grammarian, 

 who taught in Rome in the Fourth Century, and was 

 the preceptor of St. Jerome. 



Don Giovan'nl. Mozart's best opera. 



Don Ju'an is a legendary and mythical personage 

 like Dr. Faustus. Don Juan is presented in the life of 

 a profligate who gives himself up so entirely to the 

 gratification of sense, especially to the most powerful 

 of all the impulses, that of love, that he acknowledges 

 no higher consideration, end proceeds to murder the 

 man that stands between him ami his wish. f.. 

 that in so doing he had annihilated his very existence. 

 He then defies that Spirit to prove to his senses his 

 existence. The Spirit returns and compels Don Juan 

 to acknowledge the supremacy of spirit, and the worth- 

 lessness of a merely sensuous existence. The tr .-. 

 concerning Don Juan have been dramatized by Tirso 

 de Mo'lina; thence passed into Italy and France. 

 Gluck has a musical ballet of Don Juan, and Mozart 

 has immortalized the character in his opera of "l>on 

 Gipvanni." His adventures form the subject of a half- 

 finished poem by Byron. 



Don Qulx'ote. The hero of a celebrated Spanish 

 romance of the same name by Cervantes. Don guixote 

 is represented as "a gaunt country gentleman of I a 

 Mancha. full of genuine Ca.stilian honor and enthusiasm, 

 gentle and dignified in his character, ti . 

 friends, and loved by his dependents." but "so com- 

 pletely crazed by long readmit the most famous books 

 of chivalry, that' In- cm to be true and feels 



himself called on to become the impossible knight- 

 errant thev describe, and actually goe forth . 

 world to defend the oppressed and avenue the injured, 

 like the heroes of his romances." 'Die fame of Cervantes 

 will always rest U|*m this incomparable satire upon 

 the foolish and extravagant romance* of chivalry. 



Doorm. Idylls of tin Etin*i Enid, retutysoa. 

 An earl called the Bull," who Ined to make Kmd his 

 handmaid; 1 uld neither eat. drink. 



nor array herself in bravery at his bidding, "he smote 

 her on the cheek ii-.n Geramt slew the 



"russet-bearded earl" in his own hall. 



Do'ra. David Copperfleld, Dickens, The rh.ld- 

 wife to David, affectionate and tender-heart^ 

 was always playing with her poodle nnd snyinn simple 

 things to her "Dody." She eould never be his heljw 

 but she looked on her husband with idolatrous love. 

 \\hen .pine rouof riw.dkd 



Do-ran'tUft. The hero of an old popular "history" 

 or romance, upon which Shakespere founded In- 

 ter's Tale. It was written by Robert Greene, and 



the 



ted in I.VW. under the title of " Paodosto, 

 The heroin* of Goethe's celebrated 



jM,,-:n .-f ll.-rmann und Dorothea," 



Iward. and Mill*." Lllile Dorril 

 l>ii K. us. The father of the Marshalsea prison and his 



interesting daughter. It is a fine picture <>f innocent, 

 .-ite. child-life in the midst of the trying circum- 

 suoces of a debtor's prison. 



