“with an ardent, firm disinterested love.” On one occasion Miss Aubrey
was insulted by lord Courtland, with whom Tyrrel fought a duel, and
was for a time in hiding; but when Courtland recovered from his
wounds, Tyrrel re-appeared, and ultimately married the lady of his
affection.--Cumberland, _The Fashionable Lover_ (1780).
_Tyrrel_ (_Frank_), or Martigny, earl of Etherington, son of the late
earl, and la comtesse de Martigny, his wife. He is supposed to be
illegitimate. Frank is in love with Clara Mowbray, daughter of Mr.
Mowbray, of St. Ronan’s.--Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan’s Well_ (time,
George III).
=Tyrtæos=, selected by the Spartans as their leader, because his lays
inspired the soldiers to deeds of daring. The following is a
translation of one of his martial songs;--
Oh, how joyous to fall in the face of the foe,
For country and altar to die!
But a lot more ignoble no mortal can know,
Than with children and parents heart-broken with woe,
From home as an exile to fly.
Unrecompensed labor, starvation, and scorn,
The feet of the captive attend;
Dishonored his race, by rude foes overborne;
From altar, from country, from kith and kin torn;
No brother, no sister, no friend.
To the field, then! Be strong, and acquit ye like men!
Who shall fear for his country to fall?
Ye younger, in ranks firmly serried remain;
Ye elders, though weak, look on flight with disdain,
And honor your fatherland’s call!
_Tyrtæos_ (_The Spanish_), Manuel José Quintāna, whose odes stimulated
the Spaniards to vindicate their liberty, at the outbreak of the War
of Independence (1772-1857).
⁂ Who can tell the influence of such odes as the _Marseillaise_, or
some of the Jacobite songs, on the spirit of a people? Even the
music-hall song, “We don’t want to fight,” almost roused the English
nation into a war with Russia in 1878.
=Tyson= (_Kate_), a romantic young lady, who marries Frank
Cheeney.--Wybert Reeve, _Parted_.
=Ubaldo=, one of the crusaders, mature in age. He had visited many
regions, “from polar cold to Libya’s burning soil.” He and Charles,
the Dane, went to bring back Rinaldo from the enchanted
castle.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575).
=Ubaldo and Ricardo=, two men sent by Honoria, queen of Hungary, to
tempt the fidelity of Sophia, because the queen was in love with her
husband, Mathias. Immediately Sophia understood the object of their
visit, she had the two men confined in separate rooms, where they were
made to earn their food by spinning.--Massinger, _The Picture_ (1629).
=Ube´da= (_Orbaneia of_), a painter who drew a cock so
preposterously that he was obliged to write under it “This is a
cock,” in order that the spectator might know what was intended to
be represented.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. i. 3 (1615).
=Uberti= (_Farinata Degli_), a noble Florentine, leader of the
Ghibelline faction. Dantê represents him in his _Inferno_, as lying in
a fiery tomb, yet open and not to be closed till the last judgment.
=Uberto=, Count d’Este, etc.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).
=Udaller=, one who holds land by allodial tenure. Magnus Troil, in Sir
W. Scott’s _Pirate_, was a udaller.
=Ude=, the most learned of cooks, author of _La Science de Gueule_. He
says, “Coquus nascitur non fit.” That “music, dancing, fencing,
painting, and mechanics possess professors under 20 years of age, but
pre-eminence in cooking is never attained under 30.” He was _premier
artiste_ to Louis XVI., then to Lord Sefton, then to the duke of York,
then _chef de cuisine_ at Crockford’s. It is said that he quitted the
earl of Sefton, because one of his lordship’s guests added pepper to
his soup. He was succeeded by Frascatelli.
⁂ Vatel, we are told, committed suicide (1677), during a banquet given
by the Prince de Condé, because the lobsters for the turbot sauce did
not arrive in time.
=Udolpho= (_The Mysteries of_), a romance by Mrs. Radcliffe (1790).
=Ugo=, natural son of Niccolo III. of Ferrara. His father had for his
second wife Parisi´na Malatesta, between whom and Ugo a criminal
attachment arose. When Niccolo was informed thereof, he had both
brought to open trial, and both were condemned to suffer death by the
common headsman.--Frizzi, _History of Ferrara_.
=Ugoli´no=, count of Gheradesca, a leader of the Guelphi in Pisa. He
was raised to the highest honors, but the Archbishop Ruggie´ri incited
the Pisans against him, his castle was attacked, two of his grandsons
fell in the assault, and the count himself, with his two sons and two
surviving grandsons, were imprisoned in the tower of the Gualandi, on
the Piazza of the Anziani. Being locked in, the dungeon key was flung
into the Arno, and all food was withheld from them. On the fourth day
his son, Gaddo, died, and by the sixth day little Anselm, with the two
grandchildren, “fell one by one.” Last of all the count died also
(1288), and the dungeon was ever after called “The Tower of Famine.”
Dantê has introduced this story in his _Inferno_, and represents
Ugolino as devouring most voraciously the head of Ruggieri, while
frozen in the lake of ice.
Chaucer, in his _Canterbury Tales_, makes the monk briefly tell this
sad story, and calls the count “Hugeline of Pise.”
Oh, thou Pisa, shame!... What if fame
Reported that thy castles were betrayed
By Ugolino, yet no right hadst thou
To stretch his children on the rack ...
Their tender years ... uncapable of guilt.
Dantê, _Hell_, xxxiii. (1300).
Remember Ugolino condescends
To eat the head of his arch-enemy
The moment after he politely ends
His tale.
Byron, _Don Juan_, ii. 83 (1819).
=Ulalume=, the lost love, to the door of whose tomb the poet strays
with “Psyche, his soul.”
And we pass to the end of the vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb,--
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said, “What is written, sweet sister
On the door of this legended tomb?”
She replied, “Ulalume! Ulalume!
’Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!”
Edgar Allan Poe, _Poems_ (1850).
=Ula´nia=, queen of Islanda. She sent a golden shield to Charlemagne,
to be given as a prize to his bravest knight, and whoever won it might
claim the donor in marriage.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_, xv. (1516).
=Ulfin=, the page of Gondibert’s grandsire, and the faithful Achātês
of Gondibert’s father. He cured Gondibert by a cordial kept in his
sword hilt.--Sir W. Davenant, _Gondibert_ (died 1668).
=Ulf=, Celtic husband, who, surprising his wife with her lover,
follows and slays him, then tells her what he has seen, and how
avenged his injured honor, and kills her.--Charles de Kay, _Hesperus
and other Poems_ (1880).
=Ulien’s Son=, Rodomont.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).
=Ulin=, an enchantress who had no power over those who remained
faithful to Allah and their duty; but if any fell into error or sin
she had full power to do as she liked, Thus, when Misnar (sultan of
India) mistrusted the protection of Allah, she transformed him into a
toad. When the Vizier Horam believed a false report, obviously untrue,
she transformed him also into a toad. And when the Princess Hemjunah,
to avoid a marriage projected by her father, ran away with a stranger,
her indiscretion placed her in the power of the enchantress, who
transformed her likewise into a toad. Ulin was ultimately killed by
Misnar, sultan of Delhi, who felled her to the ground with a
blow.--Sir C. Morell [J. Ridley], _Tales of the Genii_, vi., viii.
(1751).
=Ullin=, Fingal’s aged bard, called “the sweet voice of resounding
Cona.”
_Ullin_, the Irish name for Ulster.
He pursued the chase on Ullin, on the moss-covered top of
Drumardo.--Ossian, _Temora_, ii.
=Ullin’s Daughter= (_Lord_), a young lady who eloped with the chief of
Ulva’s Isle, and induced a boatman to row them over Lochgyle during a
storm. The boat was capsized just as Lord Ullin and his retinue
reached the shore. He saw the peril, he cried in agony, “Come back,
come back! and I’ll forgive your Highland chief;” but it was too late,
the “waters wild rolled o’er his child, and he was left
lamenting.”--Campbell, _Lord Ullin’s Daughter_ (a ballad).
=Ulric=, son of Werner (_i.e._, count of Siegendorf). With the help of
Gabor, he saved the count of Stral´enheim from the Oder; but murdered
him afterwards for the wrongs he had done his father and himself,
especially in seeking to oust them from the princely inheritance of
Siegendorf.--Byron, _Werner_ (1822).
=Ulri´ca=, in _Charles XII._, by J. R. Planché (1826).
_Ulrica_, a girl of great beauty and noble determination of character,
natural daughter of Ernest de Fridberg. Dressed in the clothes of
Herman (the deaf and dumb jailer-lad), she gets access to the dungeon
where her father is confined as a “prisoner of State,” and contrives
his escape, but he is recaptured. Whereupon Christine (a young woman
in the service of the Countess Marie) goes direct to Frederick II.,
and obtains his pardon.--E. Stirling, _The Prisoner of State_ (1847).
_Ulrica_, _alias_ MARTHA, mother of Bertha, the betrothed of Hereward
(3 _syl._).--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus).
_Ulrica_, daughter of the late thane of Torquilstone; _alias_ Dame
Urfried, an old sibyl at Torquilstone Castle.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_
(time Richard I.).
=Ulster= (_The kings of_). The kings of _Ulster_ were called O’Neil;
those of _Munster_, O’Brien; of _Connaught_, O’Connor; of _Leinster_,
MacMorrough; and of _Meath_, O’Melaghlin.
=Ultimus Romano´rum=, Horace Walpole (1717-1797).
=Ulvfagre=, the fierce Dane, who massacred the Culdees of Io´na, and
having bound Aodh in iron, carried him to the church, demanding of him
where he had concealed the church treasures. At that moment a
mysterious gigantic figure in white appeared, and, taking Ulvfagre by
the arm, led him to the statue of St. Columb, which instantly fell on
him and killed him.
The tottering image was dashed
Down from its lofty pedestal;
On Ulvfagre’s helm it crashed.
Helmet, and skull, and flesh, and brain,
It crushed as millstones crush the grain.
Campbell, _Reullura_.
=Ulysses=, a corrupt form of Odusseus [_O. dus´.suce_], the king of
Ithăca. He is one of the chief heroes in Homer’s _Iliad_, and the
chief hero of the _Odyssey_. Homer represents him as being craftily
wise and full of devices. Virgil ascribes to him the invention of the
Wooden Horse.
Ulysses was very unwilling to join the expedition to Troy, and
pretended to be mad. Thus, when Palamēdês came to summon him to the
war, he was plowing the sand of the seashore and sowing it with salt.
_Ulysses’s bow._ Only Ulysses could draw this bow, and he could shoot
an arrow from it through twelve rings.
William the Conqueror had a bow which no arm but his own could bend.
Robin Hood’s bow could be bent by no hand but his own.
⁂ Statius says that no one but Kapăneus [_Kap´.a.nuce_] could poise
his spear.
His cypress spear with steel encircled shone,
Not to be poised but by his hand alone.
_Thebaid_, v.
_Ulysses’s Dog_, Argus, which recognized his master after an absence
of twelve years. (See THERON, King Roderick’s dog.)
=Ulysses and Polyphemos.=
Ulysses and his crew, having reached the island of Sicily, strayed
into the cave of Polyphēmos, the giant Cyclops. Soon as the monster
returned and saw the strangers, he seized two of them, and, having
dashed out their brains, made his supper off them, “nor entrails left,
nor yet their marrowy bones;” then stretched he his huge carcass on
the floor, and went to sleep. Next morning he caught up two others,
devoured them for his breakfast, then stalked forth into the open air,
driving his flocks before him. At sun-down he returned, seized other
two for his supper and after quaffing three bowls of wine, fell
asleep. Then it was that Ulysses bored out the giant’s eye with a
green olive stake heated in the fire. The monster roared with pain,
and after searching in vain to seize some of his tormentors, removed
the rock from the mouth of the cave to let out his goats and sheep.
Ulysses and his companions escaped at the same time by attaching
themselves to the bellies of the sheep, and made for their ship.
Polyphemos hurled rocks at the vessel, and nearly succeeded in sinking
it, but the fugitives made good their flight, and the blinded monster
was left lamenting.--Homer, _Odyssey_, ix.
⁂ An extraordinary parallel to this tale is told in the third voyage
of Sindbad, the sailor. Sindbad’s vessel was driven by a tempest to an
island of pygmies, and advancing into the interior, the crew came to a
“high palace,” into which they entered. At sundown came home the
giant, “tall as a palm tree; and in the middle of his forehead was one
eye, red and fiery as a burning coal.” Soon as he saw the intruders,
he caught up the fattest of them and roasted him for his supper, then
lay down to sleep, and “snored louder than thunder.” At daybreak he
left the palace, but at night returned, and made his meal off another
of the crew. This was repeated a third night, but while the monster
slept, Sindbad, with a red-hot spit, scooped out his eye. “The pain he
suffered made him groan hideously,” and he fumbled about the palace to
catch some of his tormentors “on whom to glut his rage;” but not
succeeding in this, he left the palace, “bellowing with pain.” Sindbad
and the rest lost no time in making for the sea; but scarcely had they
pushed off their rafts when the giant approached with many others, and
hurled huge stones at the fugitives. Some of them even ventured into
the sea up to their waists, and every raft was sunk except the one on
which Sindbad and two of his companions made their escape.--_Arabian
Nights_ (“Sindbad, the Sailor,” third voyage).
Another similar tale occurs in the Basque legends, in which the
giant’s name is Tartaro, and his eye was bored out with spits made red
hot. As in the previous instances, some seamen had inadvertently
wandered into the giant’s dwelling, and Tartaro had banqueted on three
of them, when his eye was scooped out by the leader. This man, like
Ulysses, made his escape by means of a ram, but, instead of clinging
to the ram’s belly, he fastened round his neck the ram’s bell, and
threw over his back a sheep-skin. When Tartaro laid his hand on the
skin, the man left it behind and made good his escape.
That all these tales are borrowed from one source none can doubt. The
_Iliad_ of Homer had been translated into Syriac by Theophilus
Edessenes, a Christian Maronite monk of Mount Libănus, during the
caliphate of Hárun-ur-Ráshid (A.D. 786-809).--See _Notes and Queries_,
April 19, 1879.
=Ulysses of Brandenburg= (_The_), Albert III., elector of Brandenburg,
also called “The German Achillês” (1414-1486).
=Ulysses of the Highlands= (_The_), Sir Evan Cameron, lord of Lochiel
[_Lok.keel´_], and surnamed “The Black” (died 1719).
⁂ It was the son of Sir Evan who was called “The Gentle Lochiel.”
=Umbra= (_Obsequious_), in Garth’s Dispensary, is meant for Dr. Gould
(1699).
=Umbriel´= (2 _syl._), the tutelar angel of Thomas, the apostle, once
a Sadducee, and always hard of conviction.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_,
iii. (1748).
_Umbriel_ [_Um.breel´_], a sprite whom Spleen supplies with a bagful
of “sighs, sobs, and cross words,” and a vialful of “soft sorrows,
melting grief, and flowing tears.” When the baron cuts off Belinda’s
lock of hair, Umbriel breaks the vial over her, and Belinda instantly
begins sighing and sobbing, chiding, weeping, and pouting.--Pope,
_Rape of the Lock_ (1712).
Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite
As ever sullied the fair face of light,
Down to the central earth, his proper scene,
Repaired, to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Canto iv. 13, etc.
=U´na=, truth; so called because truth is one. She goes, leading a
lamb and riding on a white ass, to the court of Gloriana, to crave
that one of her knights might undertake to slay the dragon which kept
her father and mother prisoners. The adventure is accorded to the Red
Cross Knight, and the two start forth together. A storm compels them
to seek shelter in a forest, and when the storm abates they get into
Wandering Wood, where they are induced by Archimago to sleep in his
cell. A vision is sent to the knight, which causes him to quit the
cell, and Una, not a little surprised at this discourtesy, goes in
search of him. In her wanderings she is caressed by a lion, who
becomes her attendant. After many adventures, she finds St. George,
“The Red Cross Knight;” who is held captive by Ugoglio, pride. Prince
Arthur slays Ugoglio and frees the knight, who is then taken by Una to
the house of Holiness to prepare for his battle with the dragon, which
he finally defeats after a terrific three-days contest.--Spenser,
_Faëry Queen_, i. (1590).
_Una_, one of Flora M’Ivor’s attendants.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_
(time, George II.).
=Uncas=, son of Chingachgook, surnamed “Deer-foot.” The courage,
dignity, and loyalty of this young chieftain, combine with his
personal graces to make him one of the most interesting creations of
the novelist’s imagination. He dies in the effort to rescue the
palefaced girl he loves, from the cruel Magua, and is buried by his
tribe with all the honors due the bravest and purest of the tribe.
“Who that saw thee in battle, would believe that thou couldst die? Who
before thee has ever shown Uttawa the way into the fight? Thy feet
were like the wings of eagles; thine arm heavier than falling branches
from the pine, and thy voice like the Manitou when he speaks in the
clouds.”--James Fenimore Cooper, _The Last of the Mohicans_.
=Unborn Doctor= (_The_), of Moorfields. Not being born a doctor, he
called himself “The Un-born Doctor.”
=Uncle Larry=, genial man of the world, kindly in thought, and
sagacious in speech, who appears in _The Last Meeting_, _The Rival
Ghosts_ and other tales by Brander Matthews.
=Uncle Toby=, a captain who had been wounded at the siege of Namur,
and had been dismissed the service on half-pay. Most kind and
benevolent, modest, and simple-minded, but brave and firm in his own
opinions. His gallantry towards Widow Wadman, is exquisite for its
modesty and chivalry. Uncle Toby retains his military tastes and camp
habits to the last.--Sterne, _The Life and Opinions of Tristram
Shandy, Gentleman_ (1729).
But what shall I say to thee, thou quintessence of the milk of human
kindness, ... thou master of the best of corporals, ... thou high and
only final Christian gentleman, ... divine Uncle Toby?... He who
created thee was the wisest man since the days of Shakespeare
himself.--Leigh Hunt.
=Uncle Tom=, a negro slave, of unaffected piety, and most faithful in
the discharge of all his duties. His master, a humane man, becomes
embarrassed in his affairs, and sells him to a slave-dealer. After
passing through various hands, and suffering intolerable cruelties, he
dies.--Harriet Beecher Stowe, _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ (1852).
⁂ The original of this character was the negro slave subsequently
ordained and called “the Rev. J. Henson.” He was in London, 1876,
1877, took part in several religious services, and was even presented
to her majesty, Queen Victoria.
=Undine= [_Oon-deen_], a water-sylph, who was in early childhood
changed for the young child of a fisherman living on a peninsula, near
an enchanted forest. One day Sir Huldbrand took shelter in the
fisherman’s hut, fell in love with Undine, and married her. Being thus
united to a man, the sylph received a soul. Not long after the wedding
Sir Huldbrand returned homeward, but stopped awhile in the city, which
lay on the other side of the forest, and met there Bertalda, a
beautiful but haughty lady, whom they invited to go with them to their
home, the Castle Ringstettin. For a time, the knight was troubled with
visions, but Undine had the mouth of a well closed up, and thus
prevented the water-sprites from getting into the castle. In time the
knight neglected his wife, and became attached to Bertalda, who was in
reality the changeling. One day, sailing on the Danube, the knight
rebuked Undine in his anger, and immediately she was snatched away by
sister sylphs to her water home. Not long after the knight proposed to
Bertalda, and the wedding day arrived. Bertalda requested her maid to
bring her some water from the well; so the cover was removed, Undine
rose from the upheaving water, went to the chamber of Sir Huldbrand,
kissed him, and he died. They buried him, and a silver stream bubbled
round his grave; it was Undine who thus embraced him, true in life,
and faithful in death.--De la Motte Fouqué, _Undine_ (1807).
⁂ This romance is founded on a tale by Theophrastus Paracelsus, in his
_Treatise on Elemental Sprites_.
=Ungrateful Guest= (_The_), a soldier in the army of Philip of
Macĕdon, who had been hospitably entertained by a villager. Being
asked by the king what he could give him in reward of his services,
the fellow requested he might have the farm and cottage of his late
host. Philip, disgusted at such baseness, had him branded with the
words, THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST.
=Unique= (_The_), Jean Paul Richter, whose romances are quite unique,
and belong to no school (1763-1825).
=Universal Doctor=, Alain de Lille (1114-1203).
⁂ Sometimes Thomas Aquinas is also called _Doctor Universālis_
(1224-1274).
=Unknown= (_The Great_), Sir Walter Scott, who published the Waverley
novels anonymously (1771-1832).
=Unlearned Parliament= (_The_). The parliament convened by Henry IV.,
at Coventry, in Warwickshire (1404), was so called because lawyers
were excluded from it.
=Unlucky Possessions=, the gold of Nibelungen and the gold of Tolosa,
Graysteel, Harmonia’s necklace, Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, etc.
=Unready= (_The_), Ethelred II. (*, 978-1016).
⁂ “Unready” does not mean “never ready or prepared,” but lacking
_rede_, _i.e._, “wisdom, judgment or kingcraft.”
=Unreason= (_The abbot of_), or FATHER HOWLEGLAS, one of the masquers
at Kennaquhair.--Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth).
=Unwashed= (_The Great_), the common people. It was Burke who first
applied this term to the artizan class.
=Upholsterer= (_The_), a farce by Murphy (1758). Abraham Quidnunc,
upholsterer, in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, being crazed with
politics, so neglects his business for the affairs of Europe that he
becomes a bankrupt; but, at this crisis, his son, John, who had
married the widow of a rich planter, returns from the West Indies,
pays off his father’s debts, and places him in a position where he may
indulge his love for politics without hampering himself with business.
=Ura´nia=, sister of Astrophel (_Sir Philip Sidney_), is the countess
of Pembroke.
Urania, sister unto Astrophel,
In whose brave mind, as in a golden coffer,
All heavenly gifts and riches lockèd are,
More rich than pearls of Ind.
Spenser, _Colin Clout’s Come Home Again_ (1595).
_Urania_, daughter of the king of Sicily, who fell in love with Sir
Guy (eldest son of St. George, the patron saint of England).--R.
Johnson, _The Seven Champions, etc._, iii. 2 (1617).
=Ura´nian Venus=, _i.e._, “Celestial Venus,” the patroness of chaste
and pure love.
Venus _pandêmos_ or _popularis_ is the Venus of the animal passion
called “love.”
Venus _etaira_ or _amīca_ is the Venus of criminal sensuality.
The seal was Cupid bent above a scroll,
And o’er his head Uranian Venus hung
And raised the blinding bandage from his eyes.
Tennyson, _The Princess_, i. (1830).
=Urban= (_Sylvānus_), the hypothetical editor of _The Gentleman’s
Magazine_.
=Urbané=, hero of a religious story bearing the title of _Urbané and
His Friends_, by Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (1863).
=Urchin=, a hedgehog, a mischievous little fellow, a dwarf, an imp.
We’ll dress like urchins.
Shakespeare, _Merry Wives of Windsor_, act iv. sc. 4
(1596).
=Ureus=, the Egyptian snake, crowned with a mitre, and typical of
heaven.
=Urfried= (_Dame_), an old sibyl at Torquilstone Castle; _alias_
Ulrica, daughter of the late thane of Torquilstone.--Sir W. Scott,
_Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.).
=Urgan=, a human child stolen by the king of the fairies, and brought
up in elf-land. He was sent to lay on Lord Richard the “curse of the
sleepless eye,” for killing his wife’s brother. Then said the dwarf to
Alice Brand (the wife of Lord Richard), “if any woman will sign my
brow thrice with a cross, I shall resume my proper form.” Alice signed
him thrice, and Urgan became at once “the fairest knight in all
Scotland,” and Alice recognized in him her own brother, Ethert.--Sir
W. Scott, _Lady of the Lake_, iv. 12 (1810).