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Gratla'no'. A. friend to Antonio and Bassino in 

 Shakespere's "Merchant of Venice." He "talks an 

 infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in Venice." 



Hrother to Brabantio, in Shakespere's tragedy of | 

 "Othello." (3) A character in the Italian popular 

 theater called " Commedia dell* Arte." He is repre- 

 sented as a Bolognese doctor, and has a mask with a 

 black nose and forehead and red cheeks. 



Gray, Auld Rob In. The title of a popular Scotch 



ballad written by Lady Anne Lindsay, and name of its 



hero. Auld Robin Gray was a good old man married 



t<> a poor young girl whose lover was thought to have 



lost at sea. but who returns to claim her hand a 



h after her marriage. 



threat -heart, Mr. In Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Prog- 

 the guide of Christian's wife and children upon 

 tneir journey to the Celestial City. 



Grc'mio. In Shakespere's "Taming of the Shrew," 

 : M <>ld 111:111 who wishes to wed Bianca. 



Gren'del. Beowulf. An Anglo-Saxon epic. The 



half-brute, half-man monster from which Beowulf de- 



i Hrothgar, King of Denmark. Night after niirht 



lei crept stealthily into the palace called Heorot, 



-,e\v sometime! as many as thirty of the inmates. 



At length Beowulf, at the head of a mixed band of war- 



.-. ent against it and slew it. 



i.ri tliri. A chimerical creature, which the fancy of 



modern has adopted from that of the ancient world. 



' iriHin is variously described and represented, but 



:iape in which it most frequently appears is that of 



an animal having the body and legs of the lion with the 



beak and wings of the eagle. Like all other monsters, 



griffins abound in the legendary tales of the Teutonic 



(Same as Gryphon . ) 



(Tin -feet. Fairy Tales, Comtesso D'Aunoy. 

 The mark by which the Desert Fairy was known in all 

 her metamorphoses. 



<.rim;ilkin. A cat, the spirit of a witch. Any witch 

 was permitted to assume the body of a cat nine times. 

 Griimviir. Oliver Twist, Dickens. An irascible 

 old gentleman, who hid a very kind heart under a rough : 

 >r. He was always declaring himself ready to 

 his head " if he was mistaken on any point on which 

 he passed an opinion. 



<.ri--rrda. The Patient. A lady in Chan 

 4 ( Sen of Oxenford's Tales " immortalized by her virtue 

 and her patience. The model of womanly and wifely 

 obedience, she comes victoriously out of cruel and re- 

 peated ordeals. The story of Griselda is first told in the 

 nieron. Boccaccio derived the incidents from! 

 : -h. who seems to have communicated them also | 

 .aucer, as the latter refers to Petrarch as his author- 



(. mil ^treet, London, is thus described in Dr. John- 



1 Dictionary; "Originally the name of a street near 



Moorfield.-, in London, much inhabited by writers of 



1 histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems. 



u hence any production is called Grub Street. The 



in its appropriate sense, was freely used by Pope, 



Swift, and ol 



Gnmdy. vshiit will Mm. Grundy say?" What 



\\ill our rivals or neighbors say? The phrase is from 



Morton's "Speed the Plough." but Mrs. Grundy " 



duced into the comedy as one of the "drn- 



pereonie." The solicitude of Dame Aflhfield, in 



;-lay, as to "what will Mrs Crundy say," has r 



<tter great celebrity, the interrogatory having ac- 



a proverbial currency. 



<.u dnm. I <l.l.i. v niiiind siufusROn. A lady 

 'd to Sigurd by the magical arts t tier mother. 

 in the d.-ath .,f Sinunl tii At! 

 for his cruelty, and murdered. She then cat 

 -if into the sea, and the waves bore her to the castle of 

 K.riK .lonakun, who became her third husl. 



(niltiMi. ixon poem. A model of I,. 



fort it tide and pious resignation She was the daughter 



and the l.etrolh.-d of 



(.11. M dolrn. A .fairy whose mother was a human 

 Mag 



. nil (I. -n-si, -MI. The name of a courtierin Shakes- 

 pere s tragedy, Hamlet. 



<.ui !I-\.T. I . inn. -|. The imaginary hero of 

 celebrated satirical romance known an M Gulh%.r- 

 Travels.' He is represented aa being first a surgeon in 

 London, and then a captain of several ship*!. Ai 



wed the sea for some years he makes in succee- 

 >ur extraordinary voyage*. 



.uppy. Mr. Weak II. MI-.-. nickrnn. A weak. 

 < ommonplace youth, who has the conceit to propone to 

 Esther Sutnti 



Gurth, Ivaahoe, Sir u..it. r Scott. The twine- 

 herd of Hotherwood. 



Gur ton. Gammer. The heroine of an old English 

 comedy, long supposed to be the earliest in the language, 

 but now ranked as the second in point of time. 



<.u> on. The impersonation of Temperance or Self- 

 government in Spenser's " Faery Queen. He destroyed 

 the witch Acra'sia. and her bower, called the "Bower 

 of Bliss." His companion was Prudence. "Sir Guyon 

 represents the quality of Temperance in the largest sense: 

 meaning the virtuous self-government which holds in 

 check not only the inferior sensual appetites but also 

 the impulses of passion and revenge. 



Guy, Sir, Earl of Warwick. The hero of a famous 

 English legend, which celebrates the wonderful achieve- 

 ments by which he obtained the hand of his lady-love, 

 the Fair Fejice. as well as the adventures he subsequently 

 met with in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He is re- 

 puted to have lived iti the reign of the Saxon King Athei- 

 st an. The romance of Sir Cuy, mentioned by Chaucer 

 in the "Canterbury Tales." cannot be traced further 

 bark than the earlier part of the Fourteenth Century. 

 Hi.- existence at any period is very doubtful. 



Guy Manncriirg. The second of Scott's historical 

 novels. It contains the excellent characters. Dandy 

 Dinmont, the shrewd and witty counselor Pleydell, the 

 desperate seabeaten villainy of Hatteraick, the uncouth 

 devotion of that gentlest of all pedants poor Domine 

 Sampson, and the savage crazed superstition of the 

 nyp-\ -dweller in Derncleugh. 



II a dad. One of the six Wise Men led by the guid- 

 inn star to Jesus. 



Hi uen. The murderer of Siegfried, in the German 

 epic, the "Nibelungenlied." He is a pale-faced dwarf, 

 who knows everything and whose sole desire is mis- 

 chief. After the death of Siegfried he seized the " Nibe- 

 lung hoard," and buried it in the Khine. intending to 

 appropriate it. Kriemhild invited him to the court 

 and had him slain. 



Hal-dee'. A beautiful young Greek girl in Byron's 

 poem, "Don Juan." She is called the beauty of the 



" had been dipped, and the sick king recovered, 

 lam'let. In Shakespere's tragedy of the 



Jycl 



Hakim. The Talisman, Scott. Saladin. in the 

 disguise of a physician, visited Richard Ccrur de Lion 

 in sickness: gave him a medicine in which the "talis- 

 man' 



Ham'iei. in snakespere s 



name, son to the former, and nephew to the reigning 

 King of Denmark. The ghost of his father appears to 

 him, and HIXM- him to avenge his murder upon his uncle. 

 But the prince feigns madness, and puts off his revenge 

 from day to day by "thinking too precisely on the 

 event." Hamlet I mother had married Claudius, King 

 of Denmark, after the death of her former husband? 

 Claudius prepared poisoned wine, which he intended 

 for Hamlet: but the queen, not knowing it was pois- 

 oned, drank it and died. Hamlet, seeing his mother 

 fall dead, rushed on the king and killed him almost by 

 accident, and is killed himself by a poisoned rapier in 

 the hands of Laertes. (See "Ophelia. ) 



Hans Mm Kip p.K h. A fictitious personage, to ask 

 for whom was a joke atnoni: (lerman -indents. 



II. in- \\ iirsf. A pantomimic character formerly in- 

 troduced into < lerman comedi.-. It corresponds to the 

 Italian "Macaroni," the French "Jean Potage," and the 

 Kni/li-h ".lack Pudding." 



Hard <. i- (I.. Mr. A character in Goldsmith's 

 comedy of "She Stoops to Conquer." represented as 

 prosy and hospitable. 



Ha rd. .1 -I Ic. Mi-. \ . -\ "genteel" lady indeed. 

 Tony l.umpkm is her son by a former husband. 



II. ml Times. \ i,o\d ! 



under the title of "Under the Earth" or "The Sons of 

 a street Arab, raised himself to 



l.anker and cotton prince. \\lien paM fifty yean of 

 age. he married Louisa, daughter of Thomas (irmd- 

 unnd. The bank was mil>r<l. and H<underby I 

 Stephen Blackpool to be the thief, because he had dis- 

 missed him from 1 culprit was Tom 

 Gradgrind. the banker'* brother-in-law, who escaped 



he country In the dramat./ed vor- 

 bank was not robbed, but Tom removed the money to 

 another drawer for safety. 



HarMe-qulii. The name of a well-known character 



II.,, lou, . < I.,-, 



novJent.tl.sl The History of Clarissa Hariowe." In 

 order to avoid a marriage urged upon her by her parents. 

 .! oMta bgflM M K !' BOfl Ol I .-M-la.e. fa 



ml) abuMi th,- msIdt0M KM rapoMd ta h.m. 11- 

 subsequently proposes to many her. but Clarissa reject 



th Har'old, < I.U.I.. ( hllde Harold's Pilgrimage, 

 lt\ r,.n. A run n of crntle l.irth nnd j>orrlrii intrllect, 

 who exhauated all the pleasures of youth and early 



