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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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usician, the friend of Hiawa-tha, and ruler in the land of spirits. Whenhe played on his pipe, the brooks ceasedto murmur, the wood-birds to sing, thesquirrel to chatter, and the rabbit sat up- Chatterton* s Holiday-Afternoon W. B. Morris, Artist W. Ridgway, Engraver r NOMAS CHA TTER TON, born at Bristol, England, in ij^2, wonan unenviable distinction by bis literary forgeries which for a longtime deceived the uncritical public of his time. He pretended tohave found the originals of his old English poems in the muniment-room ofRedcliffe Church. His discoveries created such a stir in the literary worldthat he went to London to seek his fortune. Here he found only neglect andpoverty, and finally in 1770, at the age of eighteen, died by his own hand.The picture shows the lad in the muniment-room where he passed his holiday-afternoons dreaming and writing of the dream-world that became more realto him, as it was more interesting than the world he saw about him with hisbodily eyes. i%.- il
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CHIBIABOS 221 CHICKWEED right to look and listen. He was drownedin Lake Superior by the breaking of the ice. Most beloved by HiawathaWas the gentle Chibiabos;He the best of all musicians,He the sweetest of all singers.Longfellow, Hiawatha, vi. and xv. Chibiabos, venerable chief in The Mythof Hiaivatha and Other Oral Legends ofNorth American Indians, by Henry EoweSchoolcraft (1856). Chicaneau (She.ka.no), a litigioustradesman in Les Plaideurs, by Racine,(1668). Chichi-Vache (3 syl.), a monster thatfed only on good women. The wordmeans the sorry cow. It was all skinand bone, because its food was so ex-tremely scarce. (See Bycokn.) O noble wyv^s, full of heigh prudence,Let noon hunulitie your tong§s nayle . . .Lest Chichi-Vache you swolive in her entraile.GhaMcer, Canterbury Tales (Merchants Tale,1388). Chick (Mr.), brother-in-law of Mr. Dom-bey; a stout gentleman, with a tendencyto whistle and hum airs at inopportunemoments. Mr. Chick is somewhat hen-pecked; but in the matrimonial squa

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