. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. ame rich andgot knighted, he seldom went to church,became a courtier, took a bribe fromFrance, and was hung for treason.—Pope,Moral Essays, iii. Balaustion F. H. Lungren, Artist A DEPUTATION starts from Rhodes to go to Athens, at the time ofher struggles with the League. As the travelers go they are pur-sued by pirates. Balaustion tells the story : So furiously our oarsman rowed and rowed ;And when the bars flagged somewhat, dash and we approached the coast and safety, soThat we could hear behind us plain the threatsAnd curses of t
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. ame rich andgot knighted, he seldom went to church,became a courtier, took a bribe fromFrance, and was hung for treason.—Pope,Moral Essays, iii. Balaustion F. H. Lungren, Artist A DEPUTATION starts from Rhodes to go to Athens, at the time ofher struggles with the League. As the travelers go they are pur-sued by pirates. Balaustion tells the story : So furiously our oarsman rowed and rowed ;And when the bars flagged somewhat, dash and we approached the coast and safety, soThat we could hear behind us plain the threatsAnd curses of the pirate panting tipIn one more throe and passion of pursuit,—Seeing our oars flag in the rise and fall,I sprang upon the altar by the sang aloft—some genius prompting me—That song of ours which saved at Salamis :• O sons of Greeks ! go, set your country your wives, free your children, free the fanesO the gods, your fathers founded,—sepulchresThey sleep in ! Or save all, or all be lost I Brownings Balaustions BALAUSTION. BALAAM AND JOSAPHAT 91 BALDERSTONE Balaam and Josaphat, a religiousnovel by Joliannes Damasceniis, son ofAlmansur. (For plot, see Josaphat.) Balack, Dr. Burnet, bishop of Salis-bury, who wrote a history called BurnePsOwn Time, and History of the Reformation.—Dryden and Tate, Absalom and Achito-phel, ii. Balafr^ (Le), alias Ludovic Lesly, anold archer of the Scottish Guard at Pies-sis les Tours, one of the castle palaces ofLouis XI. Le Balafre is uncle to QuentinDurward.—Sir W. Scott, Quentin Durward(time, Edward IV.). *#* Henri, son of Francois second dukeof Guise, was called Le Balafre (thegashed ), from a frightful sear in the facefrom a sword-cut in the battle of Dormans(1575). Bal^m, the ox on which the faithfulfeed in paradise. The fish is called Nun,the lobes of whose liver will suffice for70,000 men. Balaii, brother of Balyn or Balin leSavage, two of the most valiant knightsthat the world ever produced.—S
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