Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama (1892) (14598373999)

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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aver C M he hermit good lives in that woodJ_ Which slopes down to the sea. How loudly his sweet voice he rears !He Iffves to talk with marinersThat come from a far countree. O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man ! The hermit crossed his brow.Say quick! quoth he, Ibid thee say— )Vhat manner of man art thou ? He kneels at morn, and noon and eve— He hath a cushion plump ;It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak stump. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woful agony.Which forced me to begin my tale ; And then it left me free. And now, all in my own countree, 1 stood on the firm land.The hermit stepped forth from the boat. And scarcely he could stand. Since then, at an uncertain hour. This agony returns ;And till my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land ; I have strange power of speech ;That moment that his face I see,I know the man that must hear me ; To him my tale I teach. f Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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THE ANCIENT MARINER ANDREWS 47 ANDY Andrews (Joseph), the hero and title ofa novel by Fielding. He is a footman whomarries a maid-servant. Joseph Andi-ewsis a brother of (Richardsons) Pamela, ahandsome, model young man. The accounts of Josephs bravery and goodqiialities, his voice too musical to halloa to thedogs, his bravery in riding races for the gentle-men of the county, and his constancy in refusingbribes and temptation, have something refresh-ing in their naivete and freshness, and prepossessone in favor of that handsome young hero.—Thackeray. Androclus and the Lion. Androcluswas a runaway Roman slave, who tookrefuge in a cavern. A lion entered, andinstead of tearing him to pieces, lifted upits fore-paw that Andioclus might extractfrom it a thorn. The fugitive, being sub-sequently captured, was doomed to fightwith a lion in the Roman arena, and it sohappened that the very same lion was letout against him; it instantly recognizedits benefactor, and began to fawn uponhim with ev