. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. Evanthe (3 syl), sister of Sorano,the wicked instrument of Frederick, dukeof Naples, and the chaste wife of Valerio. Evangeline Edwin Douglas, Artist A. C. Alais, Engraver ft W^^AIR was she to behold, that maid of seventeen summers,J_^ Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by , yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadow. Now recommenced the reign of rest and affection and with its burden and heat had
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. Evanthe (3 syl), sister of Sorano,the wicked instrument of Frederick, dukeof Naples, and the chaste wife of Valerio. Evangeline Edwin Douglas, Artist A. C. Alais, Engraver ft W^^AIR was she to behold, that maid of seventeen summers,J_^ Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by , yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadow. Now recommenced the reign of rest and affection and with its burden and heat had departed, and twilight descendingBrought back the evening star to the sky, and the herds to the the ground they came, and resting their necks on each with their nostrils distended, inhaling the freshness of , bearing the bell, Evangelines beautiful of her snow-white hide, and the ribbon that waved from her paced and slow, as if conscious of human affection. Longfellows EVANGELINE. J EVANTHE 401 EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT The duke tried to seduce lier, but failingin this scandalous attempt, offered togive her to any one for a month, at theend of which time the libertine was tosuffer death. ISTo one would accept theoffer, and ultimately Evanthe was restoredto her husband.—Beaumont and Fletcher,A Wife for a Month (1624). Eve (1 syl), or Havah, the mother ofall living {Gen. iii. 20). Before the ex-pulsion from paradise her name was Ishah,because she was taken out of isli, i. {Gen. ii. 23). Eve was of such gigantic statue that when shelaid her head on one hill near Mecca, her kneesrested on two other hills in the plain, about twogun-shots asunder. Adam was as tall as a palmtree.—Moncony, Voyage, i. 372, etc. Evelina (4 syl.), the heroine of a novelso called by Miss Burney (afterwards ). Evelina marries Lord OrviUe(1778). Evelyn {Alfred), the secretary andrelative of Sir John Vesey.
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