Dictionary of phrase and fable, giving the derivation, source or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell... . To which is added a concise bibliography of English literature / by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer.

  • E. Cobham Brewer
Date:
1910
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Credit: Dictionary of phrase and fable, giving the derivation, source or origin of common phrases, allusions, and words that have a tale to tell... . To which is added a concise bibliography of English literature / by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    heart ” (1880); ‘ ‘ An Ocean Free Lance ’ ’ (1881); “ The Lady Maud ” (1882); “ A Sea Queen” (1883); “Sailors’ Lan- guage” (1883); “ On the Fo’k’sle Head” (1884); “ Jack’s Courtship ” (1884); “A Strange Voyage ” (1885); “ A Voyage to the Cape ” (1886); “ The Oolden Hope ” (1887); “The Frozen Pirate” (1887); “The Death Ship” (1888); “William Dampier: a Biography” (1889); “Be- twixt the Forelands : Essays ” (1889); “Marooned” (1889); “An Ocean Tragedy” (1890); “My Shipmate Louise” (1890); “Horatio Nelson,” in collaboration (1890); “ Collingwood,” a biography (1891); “ My Danish Sweet- heart” (1891); “Master Eockafellar’s Voyage ” (1891); “A Marriage at Sea ” (1891); “Mrs. Dines’ Jewels” (1892); “Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea ” (1892) ; “ A Strange Elopement ” (1892); “ List, ye Landsmen,” “The Emigrant Ship,” “The Convict Ship,” “The Tragedy of Ida Noble” (1893); “The Phantom Death,” etc. (1895); “The Honour of the Flag,” “The Tale of the Ten,” “What Cheer” (1896) ; “The Last Entry,” “A Tale of Two Tunnels” (1897); “The Ship, Her Story” (1899); “ Overdue ” (1903), etc. Russell. Sir William Howard, LL.D. (b. 1821; d. 1907). “ Eifle Clubs and Volunteer Corps’ ’ (1859); ‘ ‘ My Diary in India” (1860) ; “My Diary North and South” (1863); “Canada : Its De- fences” (1865); “The Adventures of Dr. Brady” (1868); “Diary in the East,” etc. (1869) ; “My Diary During the last Great War” (1870); “The Prince of Wales’s Tour ” [in India] (1877) ; “ The Crimea, 1854-55 ” (1881); “ Hesperothen ” (1882) ; “A Visit to Chile,” etc. (1890); “ The Great War withEussia” (1895), etc. S Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, and Lord Buckhurst (h. 1536; d. 1608). “The Induction” to “The Mirror for Magistrates” and (with Thomas Norton) ‘ ‘ The Tragedy of Gorhoduc. ’ ’ See Wood’s “ Athenae Oxonienses,” also Cooper’s “ Athenae Cantahrigienses,” and Lloyd’s “ Worthies.” Works in 1859. Saintshury, George Edward Bateman (b. Southampton, October 23rd, 1845). “ Primer of French Litera- ture” (1880); “Dryden” (1881); “A Short History of French Literature” (1882); “Marlborough” (1885); “Man- chester” (1887) ; “A History of Eliza-, bethan Literature” (1887) ; “Essays on French Novelists” (1891); “Miscellane- ous Essays” (1892); “The Earl of Derby” (1892); “Corrected Impres- sions ” (1895) ; “ Nineteenth Century Literature ” (1896) ; “The Earlier Ee- naissance ” (1901). Has edited Herrick’s and Fielding’s Works, etc. Sala, George Augustus (b. London, Nov. 24th, 1828 ; d. 1895). “ The Seven Sons of Mammon;” “Captain Dan- gerous ; ” “ Qmte Alone; ” “ The Two Prima Donnas,' and other Stories ; ” “ Twice Eound the Clock ” (1859) ; “Breakfast in Bed,” “Gaslight and Daylight,” “Under the Sun,” and other essays; besides “America in the Midst of the War,” “ Two Kings and a Kaiser,” “ A Journey due North,” “Dutch Pictures,” “ From Waterloo to the Peninsula,” “Eome and Venice,” “ William Hogarth,” “ Paris Herself Again” (1879); “America Eevisited” (1882); “A Journey due South” (1885); “ Eight Eound the World ” (1887) , ‘ ‘ Things I have Seen and People I have Known” (1894); “ London Up to Date” (1894); “The Life and Adventures of G. A. Sala” (1895); “The Thorough Good Cook ” (1895). First editor of Temple Bar, founder of Sato’s Journal, and for many years a contributor to the Daily Telegraph and I.lus. London News. Sunday, Professor William, B.D., LL.D. (b. 1843). “ Authorship and His- torical Character of the Fourth Gospel ’ ’ (1872)■5 “The Gospels in the Second Century” (1876); “ The Oracles of God ” (1891); “Inspiration” (1893); “The Catholic Movement and the Archbishop’s Decision” (1899), etc. Joint editor of “ Old Latin Biblical Texts.” Savage, Richard (b. London, Jan- uary 10th, 1698; d. Bristol, July 31st, 1743). “ Love in a Veil ” (1718) ; “ The Bastard” (1728); “The Wanderer” (1729), etc. See Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets.” Works collected in 1775. Sayce,Frofessor Archibald Henry, D.D., LL.D. (b. 1846). “Babylonian Literature ” (1877); “ Fresh Light from the Monuments ” (1883); “ The Ancient Empires of the East” (1884) ; “Assyria, its Princes, Priests, and People ” (1885), “ Eeligion of the iGicient Babylonians ” (1887); “ The Hittites ” (1888) ; “ The ‘ Higher Criticism ’ and the Verdict of the Monuments” (1893); “Social Life Among the Assyrians and Babylonians ’ ’ (1893).