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.

  • Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham, 1810-1897.
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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    ‘■hildreu/’ “Confessions of a Pub- lisher ” ( 1888) ; “ Buttons,” “ Mrs. Bob” (1889); “ Dinna Forp;et,” “Fer- rers Court,” “He Went for a Soldier” yl8c)0) ; “Harvest,” “ Lumley the Painter,” “The Other Man’s Wife” (1891); “Only Human” (1892); “A Man’s Man,” “ That Mrs. Smith,” “Aunt Johnnie,” “The Soul of a Bishop ” (1893); “ A Born Soldier,” “A Seventh Child” (1894); “A Magnificent Young Man” (1895); “Grip,” “I Loved Her Once,” “ The Strange Story of My Life” (1896); “A Name to Conjure With” (1899); “Marty,” “ Jimmy ” (1903). Wither, George (b. 1588 ; d. 1667). ‘ ‘ Prince Henry’s Obsequies; or Mourne- full Elegies upon his Death ” (1612); “Abuses Stript and Whipt; or, Satiri- call Essayes ” ; “ Epithalamia ” (1613); “ A Satyre written to the King’s most ex- cellent Majestye ” ; “ The Shepheard’s Pipe” (1614, written with Browne); “The Shepheards Hunting ” (1615); “ Fidelia ” (1617); “ Wither’s Motto ” (1618); “ A Preparation to the Psalter (1619); ‘ ‘ Exer- cises upon the First Psalmes, both inVerse and Prose ” (1620) ; “ The Songs of the Old Testament, translated into English Measures ” (1621) ; “ Juvenilia ” ; “ The Mistress of Philarete ” (poems, 1622) ; ‘ ‘The Hymnes and Songs of the Church ” (1623); “ The Scholler’s Purgatory, dis- covered in the Stationer’s Common- wealth, and described in a Discourse Apologeticall ” (1625-26); “Britain’s Eemembrancer, containing a Narrative of the Plague lately past ” (1628); “ The Psalmes of David translated into Lyrick Verse” (1632); “Collection of Em- blemes ” (1635); “Nature of Man” (1636); “ Bead and Wonder ” (1641); “A Prophesie ” (1641); “Hallelujah” (1641); “ Campo Musse” (1643); “ Se Defendendo ” (1643); “ Mercurius Rus- ticus” (1643); “The Speech without Doore ” (1644) ; “Letters of Advice touching the Choice of Knights and Burgesses for the Parliament” (1644); etc. See Wood’s “Athense Oxonienses,” Brydges’ “ Censura Literaria,” “British Bibliographer,” and “Bestituta;” an essay on Wither’s Works by Charles Lamb, Willmott’s “ Lives of the Sacred Poets,” and Farr’s Introduction to his edition of the “ Hallelujah.” Wolcot, John, M.D.(“ Peter Pindar”) (b. Dodbrooke, Devonshire, May, 1738 ; d. January 13th, 1819). “ The Lousiad” (1786). Works (1794-1801). A Life of him is included in the “Annual Bio- graphy and Obituary ” for 1820. < Wollstonecraft, Mary, Mrs. God- win (b. 1759 ; d. 1797). “Thoughts on the Education of Daughters” (1787); “Female Reader; or. Miscellaneous Pieces ” (1789); “ Moral and Historical Relation of the French Revolution ” (1790); “Original Stories from Real Life” (1791); “A Vindication of the Rights of Women, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects” (1792); “ Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, and its Effects on Europe ’ ’ (1795); and “Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark” (1796). Posthumous Works, with a Memoir, by William Godwin, in 1798. A “ Defence of their Character and Conduct ” in 1803. Her Letters edited, with Memoir, by Kegan Paul (1878). Wolseley, Garnet Joseph, Field- Marshal Viscount, O.M., K.P., D.C.L., LL.D. (b. 1833). “Narrative of the War with China in 1860 ” (1861) ; “ The Soldier’s Pocket-book for Field Service ” (1869); “Field Pocket-book for the Auxiliary Forces ” (1873)i; “ Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, to the Accession of Queen Anne ” (1894); “De- cline and Fall of Napoleon” (1895); “ The Story of a Soldier’s Life ” (1903). Wood, Anthony d (b. Oxford, December 17th, 1632 ; d. November 29th, 1695). “Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis ” (1674); “ A- thense Oxonienses” (1691-92); “Fasti; or. Annals of the said University ; ” and “A Vindication of the Historio- grapher of the University of Oxford and his Works from the reproaches of the Bishop of Salisbury ” [Burnet] in 1693. A Life of Wood in 1711, another in 1772. See also that by Rawlmson (1811), and Bliss (1848), and Macmillan’s Magazine for July and August of 1875. Wood, Mrs. Henry (b. 1820; d. February 10th, 1887). “ East Lynne ” (1861); “TheChannings ” (18b2_); “Mrs. Halliburton’s Troubles” (1862); “The Shadow of Ashlydyat ” (1863); “The Foggy Night at Offord” (1863); “St. Martin’s Eve”(1866); “A Life’s Secret” (1867); “ Roland Yorke ” (1869); “ Dene Hollow” (1871); “Johnny Ludlow” (1874-85) ; “Edina ” (1876); “Pomeroy Abbey” (1878); “Court Netherleigh ” (1881); “About Ourselves” (1883); and several posthumous works. Woolner, Thomas, R.A. (b. Had- leigh, Suffolk, December 17th, 1826 •,