. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. n, Dr. Cotton The Trusty Eckart Julius Adam, Artist T IKE a wild man had Eckart roamed about the forest, unconscious of_Z__y himself or his misfortunes, he had lost all thought- and in blankstupefaction satisfied his hunger with roots and herbs ; the herowould not now be recogniied by any one, so sore had the days of his despaireffaced him. As the storm came on, he awoke from his stupefaction, andagain felt his existence and his woes, and saw the misery that had befallenhim. He raised a loud cry of lamentation for his children ; he tore h
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. n, Dr. Cotton The Trusty Eckart Julius Adam, Artist T IKE a wild man had Eckart roamed about the forest, unconscious of_Z__y himself or his misfortunes, he had lost all thought- and in blankstupefaction satisfied his hunger with roots and herbs ; the herowould not now be recogniied by any one, so sore had the days of his despaireffaced him. As the storm came on, he awoke from his stupefaction, andagain felt his existence and his woes, and saw the misery that had befallenhim. He raised a loud cry of lamentation for his children ; he tore his zohitehair, and called out in the bellowing of the storm ; Whither, whither are yegone, ye parts of my heart? {The Duke, who had killed Eckarts sons, dies and bequeaths his ownchildren to Eckart.) I have taken you for my sons, said Eckart to theyoung Princes, as he once stood with them on the hill before the Castle, yourhappiness must now be my posterity ; when dead, I shall still live in yourjoy. Tiecks Trusty Eckart {translated by T. Carlyle). 7V. ly EATON THEOPHILUS 357 ECOLE DES FEMMES Mather lays stress upon the distinc-tion drawn by that eminent christian manbetween stoicism and resignation. There is a difference between a sullen silenceor a stupid senselessness under the hand of God,and a childlike submission thereunto. In his daily life, we are told, he was affable,courteous, and generally pleasant, but grave per-petually, and so courteous and ciicumspeet inhis discourses, and so modest in his expressions,that it became a proverb for incontestable truth,— Grovernor Eaton said it.—Cotton Mather,Magnalia Ghristi Americana (1702). Eberson {Earl), the young son ofWiUiam de la Marck, The Wild Boar ofArdennes.—Sir W. Scott, Qiientin Dur-ward (time, Edward IV.). Eblis, monarch of the spirits of an angel of hght, but, refusing toworship Adam, he lost his high his fall he was called Koran says: When We [ God] saidunto the angels, Worsh
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