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Thracia Thrace.
Thucydides (5th century B. C.). A celebrated Greek
historian.

Thursley. A town in the county of Surrey, England.
Thurston-mere. Coniston Lake, west of Hawkshed,
Lancashire, England.
Thyrsis. A common name in literature for a rustic
or shepherd.

Tiber. A river of central Italy which enters the
Mediterranean below Rome.

Tiberius. See note on Tiberius and Vipsania, p. 1305a. Tickler. "Timothy Tickler," an Edinburgh lawyer named Sym; an uncle of John Wilson's wife. Timon. A typical hater of mankind, in Shakspere's Timon of Athens.

Timour. See Tamerlane.

Tintadgel. Tintagel, a village in Cornwall, England. Near it is the ruined Tintagel Castle, celebrated in Arthurian legend as the birthplace of King Arthur.

Tipp, John. An accountant in the South-Sea House about 1794.

Titan. One of a mythological race of giants, said to have piled mountain upon mountain to scale heaven. Titanic. Resembling the Titans, a race of giants. Titchfield Street. A prominent street in London. Tithon; Tithonus. A legendary character loved by

Aurora, who prevailed on the gods to grant him immortal life, but forgot to ask for him immortal youth. He grew old and shriveled, and was changed by Aurora into a grasshopper. Titian. Tiziano Vecelli (1477-1576), a famous Venetian painter,

Tityrus. (155)-A freedman in Virgil's Eclogues, supposed to represent Virgil himself. Tividale. See Teviotdale,

Tiviot. See Teviot.

Tmolus. A mountain range in Asia Minor. Tobin. James Webbe Tobin (d. 1814), an English lawyer. See note on Wordsworth's We Arc Seven, p. 1357b.

Tolbooth. The principal prison in Edinburgh. Many criminals were executed in front of it. Tom Thumb. A legendary diminutive personage celebrated in English literature.

Toms, Jo. Joseph Parkes (1796-1865), a Radical politician.

Tonson, Jacob (c1656-1736). A prominent London publisher.

Tooke. John Horne Tooke (1726-1812), an English

politician, philosopher, and philologist; he opposed the war with America in 1776. Torfæus. Thormodr Torfason (1636-1719), an Icelandic antiquary and historian. Tory. The Tories, in English history, were members of one of the two great political parties which arose at the end of the 17th century. They favored conservative principles in church and state.

Toulmin, Dr. Joshua Toulmin (1740-1815), a Dissenting historian and theologian. He preached at Taunton, Somersetshire, England, for nearly 40 years. Toulouse. A city in southern France; the scene of massacres of Huguenots in 1562 and 1572. Tourneur. Cyril Tourneur, an English tragic poet of the early 17th century. Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803).

A Haitian revo

lutionist and liberator. He was captured by the French and imprisoned for life. Tower; Tower of London. An ancient palace-citadel near the eastern wall of London. It was long a prison for political offenders; it is now a national arsenal.

Towy. A river in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. Trafalgar. The name of a famous British naval victory over the French and Spanish, off Cape Trafalgar, on the southern coast of Spain, 1805. See p. 411.

Trajan. Marcus Ulplus Trajanus, a famous Roman emperor (98-117).

Trent. A river flowing through the counties of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, and Lincoln, England. Trevelyan. Raleigh Trevelyan (1781-1865), a miscellaneous English writer. Trimmer, Mrs. Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), whose

original name was Kirby, the author of various juvenile and educational works of great merit. Tristram Shandy. The hero of Tristram Shandy, a

novel by Laurence Sterne (1713-68), an English novelist.

Triton. One of the sea gods; son of Poseidon. Troilus. 1-(780)-In medieval romance, a son of Priam, King of Troy; lover of Cressida. 2

(864) The hero of Shakspere's Troilus and Cressida. Troilus and Cressida. A tragedy by Shakspere. Trojan. 1-(306, 969, 1123)-Pertaining to ancient Troy. 2-(939, 1040)-The Trojan War, the ten years' war between Greeks and Trojans, described in the Iliad.

Trollope, Mrs. Frances Trollope (1790-1863), a popular English novelist. Troppau. A city in Austria. Trosachs; Trossachs. A romantic and beautiful valley between lakes Achray and Katrine in Perthshire, Scotland.

Trout Hall. In The Complete Angler, a treatise by Izaak Walton (1593-1683), an English writer. Troy. An ancient city in Troas, Asia Minor, the scene of Homer's Iliad.

Tryermaine. A fief of the Barony of Gilsland, in
Cumberlandshire, England. Roland Vaux was
the name of successive owners of Tryermaine
during the 14th and 15th centuries.
Tullibardine. The name of an old seat of the Mur-
rays, a powerful family of Scotland, near Stir-
ling in Stirlingshire. See Murray.

Tura. A castle of Ulster, North Ireland.
Turin. A city of Italy, capital of the province of
Turin.

Turkish Spy, The. An Italian romance by Giovanni
Paolo Marana (1684). Defoe wrote a continua-

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Uam-Var.
A mountain in Menteith, a district in
Perthshire, Scotland.
Ucalegon, A close companion and counselor of
Priam, King of Troy.
Uist. Either of two Scottish islands of the Outer
Hebrides, North Uist or South Uist.
Ukraine. The former name of a region of European
Russia, lying in the valley of the River Dnieper.
Ulysses. See Odysseus.

Ulva's Isle. A small island off the west coast of
Scotland.

Ulz-water. Ullswater, a large lake between the Westmoreland,

counties of Cumberland and England. Umfraville. Probably Sir Robert de Umfraville (d. 1436), Earl of Angus, a member of an influential Norman family in Northumberlandshire, England. He fought on the side of Henry IV and Henry Percy (Hotspur) against the Scots. The Umfravilles and the Percys were closely related.

Una.

In Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a beautiful maiden, the personification of truth. Upton. A town in Worcestershire, England, midway between the cities of Worcester and Gloucester.

Urania. The Muse of astronomy. The name was applied also to Aphrodite as the goddess of spiritual love.

Uranus.

With the exception of Neptune, the outermost of the planets. Urien. An ancient Welsh poet; nothing is extant of Utopia. An imaginary island having a perfect pohis works.

litical system, described by Sir Thomas More in a romance entitled Utopia (1516).

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Diego Velasquez (1599-1660), a noted
Spanish painter.
Vennachar. The "Lake of the Fair Valley," in
Perthshire, Scotland.

Venta.

Venus.

Venta Belgarum, the ancient name of Win-
chester, a city in Hampshire, England.
The goddess of love and beauty. See Aph-
rodite.
Venus dei Medici. A beautiful marble statue of
Venus, in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
work of the Greek sculptor Cleomenes (3rd
It is the
century B. C.).

Verona. The capital of a province in northeast
Italy.
Verrio. Antonio Verrio (c1639-1707), an Italian
painter. He was employed by Charles II of
England to paint frescoes in the royal residence,
Windsor Castle.

Versailles. A city in France, near Paris.
Vertumnus.

A god of the changing seasons who
presided over orchards and gardens.
Vesper. Venus when evening star; also, the

evening.

an

Vesta. The goddess of the hearth.
Vesuvio. Vesuvius, a mountain of southern Italy;
the only active volcano in Europe.
Vevey. A town on Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
Vicar of Wakefield, The.
smith (1728-74).
A novel by Oliver Gold-
Pierre Charles Jean
(1763-1806), a French admiral who commanded
de Villeneuve
the French fleet at Trafalgar.
Vinci, da.

Villeneuve.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), a noted
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and engi-

neer.

Viola. The heroine of Shakspere's Twelfth Night;
she was shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, a
region in the Balkan peninsula.
Virgil. Publius Virgilius Maro (70-19 B. C.), a fa-
mous Roman epic, didactic, and idyllic poet.
Virgin's picture. The picture of the Virgin Mary.
Vittoria, A famous British victory over the French
and Spanish at Vittoria, a city in northern
Spain, in 1813.

Vittoria Corombona.

Webster (1580?-1625?), an English dramatist.
A tragedy written by John
Voltaire. François Voltaire (1694-1778), a famous
French writer and skeptic.

Vulcan.

The blacksmith of the gods.

Wakefield.

Water-Monarch. Neptune, god of the sea.
Waterton, Mr. Charles Waterton (1782-1865), an
English naturalist.

Webster, John Webster, an English tragic dram-
atist of the early 17th century.
Wedgewood, Tom.
brother Josiah (1730-95), paid Coleridge an an-
An Englishman who, with his
nuity of £150 as the result of his preaching in
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

Weirdlaw Hill, A hill in the Ettrick Valley, Sel-
kirkshire, Scotland.

Welborn. A character in Philip Massinger's A New
Way to Pay Old Debts (1632).
Wellington, Duke of.

Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852),

a celebrated British general.

Went.
Wem.

A town in Shropshire, England.

A small river in the southern part of YorkWesley. John Wesley (1703-91), a distinguished shire, England. religious reformer, founder of Methodism. Westall. Westbrook, Harriet. Richard Westall (1765-1836), a prominent historical painter Westminster Abbey. A famous church in WestminShelley, The first wife of the poet Westminster Bridge. ster, London, built over the Thames at London. The oldest bridge but one West Riding. Westmoreland. A northern county of England. The western division of a county. Wharfe. A river flowing through the central part of Yorkshire, England. Whigs. In English history, members of one of the Wheathampstead. A small station End in Hertfordshire, England. two great political parties which arose at the end of the 17th century. liberal principles than did the Tories. They professed more Whinfield. Whitchurch. A place in Cumberlandshire, England. A small town north of Wem in Shropshire, England, White.

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In modern London, the main thoroughfare between Trafalgar Square and the Houses of Parliament. On it is Whitehall Chapel, formerly a royal palace. Whole Duty of Man. of unknown authorship, published in 1639, A once popular ethical treatise Widdin. A town in Bulgaria, situated on the Danube. It was formerly an important fortress. Wilkes, Jack. John Wilkes (1727-97), an English politician, publicist, and political agitator. Will o' the Wisp. An ignis fatuus.

A small town in the south-central part William. 1--(54, 1004)-William of Orange, King of Yorkshire, England.

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Edmund Waller (1606-87), an English poet. Walpole. Horace Walpole (1717-97), author and wit. an English

See p. 100.

Waltham.

A suburb of London.

Walter, Sir.

Walton.

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writer.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).
Walton

Wandering Jew.

an English

The shoemaker Ahasuerus, fabled to be condemned to wander on the earth till the end of the world for driving Christ from his door when he rested there while bearing the

cross.

Wapping. A quarter of London along the Thames,
frequented by sailors.
War of the Second Coalition.

by the allied European powers against Napo-
The war conducted
leon, 1799-1801.

Warden. The title of a chief executive officer.
Ware. A town in Hertfordshire, England.
Warsaw. The capital of the Kingdom of Poland,
from 1609 to 1813.

Wat Tyler. A revolutionary epic by Robert Southey,
dealing with the English rebel Wat Tyler and
the insurrection started by him in 1381, because
of the levying of a capitation tax.
Waterloo. A decisive victory gained by the Allies
over Napoleon at Waterloo, a village near Brus-
sels, Belgium, on June 18, 1815.

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Thomas Wilson (1663-1755), a noted Eng-
lish theologian.
Wiltshire.
Winander.

An inland county of England.
Windermere, a large lake on the borders
of the counties of Westmoreland and Lancaster,
Winchester.
England.
Windham.
A city in Hampshire, England.
William Windham (1750-1810), an emi-
nent English orator and statesman.
Windsor. A town in Berkshire. England, situated
on the Thames, 23 miles from London.
tains Windsor Castle, a famous royal residence
It con-
Winkfield. A village in Wiltshire, England:
founded by William the Conqueror.
opposite the castle is Eton College.
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second wife of Shelley. Her chief work is Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Woman Killed with Kindness. A tragedy by Thomas Heywood, an English dramatist of the early 17th century.

Wood. Sir Matthew Wood (1768-1843), an English political reformer, a consistent and strenuous supporter of the Whig ministries.

an

Wood Street. A street in London; it is off Cheapside, the leading east and west thoroughfare. Woodhouse. Robert Woodhouse (1773-1827), English astronomer and mathematician. Woodhouslee. A barony belonging to

Bothwell

haugh, along the banks of the Esk River, in Dumfriesshire, on the Scottish Border. Woollett. William Woollett (1735-85), a noted English landscape engraver. Woolston. Thomas Woolston (1669-1733), an English theological writer.

Worcester. A city in Worcestershire, England. Wrexham. A town in Denbighshire, Wales. Wright. John W. Wright (1769-1805), an Irish naval officer. He was captured by the French in 1804, and confined in the Temple at Paris. In 1805 he was found dead in prison, and it was suspected that he had been murdered. Wye. A river in Wales and England, noted for its picturesque scenery. Wyndermere. Lake Windermere, on the borders of the counties of Westmoreland and Lancaster; one of the finest and largest lakes of England.

Xanthippos. A son of Pericles. Xenophon (430-357 B. C.). A celebrated Greek historian and essayist; author of the Anabasis and the Memorabilia. Xerxes (c519-465 B. C.). King of Persia.

Yardley. A parish in Worcestershire, England. Yarrow. A river in Selkirkshire, Scotland. York. 1-(73, 903, 1114)-A city in Yorkshire, England. 2-(221)-A branch of the English royal dynasty, descended from Edmund, Duke of York, fourth son of Edward III, King of England (1327-77).

York, Duke of. (873)-Frederick Augustus (17631827), second son of George III, King of England (1760-1820). Yule. Christmas time (from A. S. geol, December). Zeno (3rd century B. C.). A Greek philosopher, founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, known for the sternness of its doctrines. Zephyrus. The West Wind, regarded as the mildest of all the sylvan deities. Zeus. In Greek mythology, the chief of the gods. Zimmerman. Johann Georg von Zimmerman (172895), a Swiss philosopher and physician, who wrote a book entitled On Solitude.

Zion.

Zoe.

A hill on which was situated the heavenly Jerusalem.

Haidée's maid in Byron's Don Juan. Zoroaster (fl. 600 B. C.). The traditional founder of the ancient Irano-Persian religion.

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Keats (1795-1821)
Hunt (1784-1859)
Jeffrey (1773-1850)
Lamb (1775-1834)
Landor (1775-1864)
Peacock (1785-1866)
Austen (1775-1817)
Hazlitt (1778-1830)
DeQuincey (1785-1859)
Beddoes (1803-1849)
Hood (1799-1845)
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Wilson (1785-1854)
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Fichte (1762-1814)
Kleist (1777-1811)
Hoffmann (1776-1822)
A. W. Schlegel (1767-1845)
F. Schlegel (1772-1829)

Hegel (1770-1831)
Arndt (1769-1860)
Tieck (1773-1853)
Arnim (1781-1831)
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Görres (1776-1848)
Schelling (1775-1854)
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