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.
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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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    Wordsworth d. October 7th, 1892). “Silenus” (1884); “Tiresias” (1886); “Nelly Dale” (1887); “My Beautiful Lady” (1887), etc. Wordsworth, Charles, D.D., Bishop of St. Andrews (b. Book- ing, Essex, 1806; d. December 5th, 1892). “ Shakespeare’s Knowledge and Use of the Bible” (1854) ; “The Out- lines of the Christian Ministry Deline- ated and Brought, to the Test of Eeason, Holy Scripture, History, and Ex- perience ” (1872); “ Catechesis; or, Christian Instruction; ” “A Greek Primer; ” “Annals of my Life ” (1891); “ Primary Witness to the Truth of the Gospel,” etc. (1892). Wordsworth, Christopher, D.D. (b, Cockermouth, June 4th, 1774; d. Buxted, Sussex, 1846). “Ecclesiasti- cal Biography ; or, the Lives of Eminent Men connected with the History of Eeligion in England from the Eeforma- tion to the Eevolution” (1809); “Ser- mons onTarious Occasions ” (1815), etc. Wordsworth, Christopher, D.D., Bish(^ of Lincoln (b. 1807 ; d. 1885). “Memoirs of WilHam Wordsworth;” “ Theophilus Anglicus ; ” an edition of the Greek Testament, with notes; an edition of the Old Testament in the Authorised Version, with Notes and Introduction; “The Holy Year;” “ Original Hymns ; ” “ Greece, Histori- cal, Pictorial, and Descriptive; ” “ Ser- mons on the Church of Ireland; ’ ’ and the “ Correspondence of Eichard Bent- ley.” Wordsworth, Dorothy (d. 1855). “ Eecollections of a Tour made in Scot- land in 1803 ” (1874). Wordsworth, Right Rev. John, D.D., LL.D. (b. Harrow, September 21st, 1843). “Lectures Introductory to a History of Latin Literature” (1870); “ The One Eeligion ” (1881); “ On the Eoman Conquest of Southern Britain ’ ’ (1889), etc. Wordsworth, William (b. Cocker- mouth, April 7th, 1770; d. Eydal Mount, April 23rd, 1850). “ An Evening Walk ” (printed 1793); “Descriptive Sketches ” (1793); “ Lyrical Ballads ” [with Cole- ridge] (1798); “ The Excursion ” (1814); “ The White Doe of Eylstone ” (1815); “ The Waggoner ” (1819); “ Peter Bell” (1819); “Yarrow Eevisited, and other Poems” (1835); “TheBorderers”(1842); and other works, including “ Ecclesiasti- cal Sketches,” and “ Sonnets on the Eiver Duddon.’’ For Biography, see the Lives by Dr. Wordsworth, G. S. Phillips Paxton Hood, and Myers (1881); article by Lockhart in The Quarterhj Review (vol. xcii.), Crabb Eobinson’s “Diary,” Julian Young’s “ Eeminiscences,” and Dorothy Wordsworth’s “ Tour in Scot- land.” For Criticism, see Shairp’s “ Studies in Poetry and Philosophy,” Hutton’s Essays, Brimley’s Essays, Jef- frey’s Essap, Hazlitt’s “ English Poets ” and “Spirit of the Age,” Masson’s Essays, F. W. Eobertson’s “Lectures and Addresses,” De Quincey’s Miscel- laneous Works, Gilfillan’s “Gallery of Portraits,” Brooke’s “Theology in the English Poets,” Sir Francis Doyle’s “ Lectures on Poetry,” and . Knight’s “ The English Lake District,” as in- terpreted by Wordsworth (1878). A complete edition of Wordsworth’s Prose Works, edited by the Eev. A. B. Gro- sart,_ appeared in 1875 ; and of his Poetical Works, edited by Mr. John Morley, in 1888. In this edition the first book of “The Eecluse ” was for the first time published in its entirety. Selected' Poems, by Arnold (1879). Wotton, Sir Henry (b. Boughton, Malherbe, Kent, March 30th, 1568; d. December, 1639). “The Elements of Architecture” (1624); “Ad Eegem e Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonii Plausus et Vota” (1633); “A Parallel between Eobert late Earl of Essex and George late Duke of Buckingham ” (1641); “A Short View of the Life and Death of George Vilhers, Duke of Buckingham ” (1642); “The State of Christendom ” (1657); and Panegyrick of King Charles, being Ob- servations upon the Inclination, Life and Government of our Sovereign Lord the King.” “The Eeliquise Wottonianee,” containing Lives, Letters, Poems, with Characters of Sundry Personages, and other Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art, by Sir Henry Wotton, Kt., appeared in 1651. The Poems were edited by Dyce for the Percy Society, and by Dr. Hannah in 1845. See the Life by Izaak Walton, Wood’s “Athenae Oxonienses,” and Brydges’ “British Bibliographer. ’ ’ Wright, Thomas (b. Ludlow, Shropshire, April 21st, 1810; d. Chelsea, December 23rd, 1877). “Queen Eliza- beth and her Times ” (1838); “ England Under the House of Hanover” (1848), “ The Celt, the Eoman, and the Saxon” (1852); “Domestic Manners in England during the Middle Ages” (1861); “Es- says on Archaeological Subjects” (1861);