Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama | Page 6

And mingled lie the oppressor and th'opprest.
Pope.
Martyr King (The), Charles I. of England (1600, 1625-1649).
Louis XVI. of France is also called Louis "the Martyr" (1754, 1774-1793).
=Martyrs to Science.=
Claude Louis, Count Berthollet, who tested on himself the effects of carbonic acid on the human frame, and died under the experiment (1748-1822).
Giordano Bruno, who was burnt alive for maintaining that matter is the mother of all things (1550-1600).
Galileo, who was imprisoned twice by the Inquisition for maintaining that the earth moved round the sun, and not the sun round the earth (1564-1642).
And scores of others.
=Marvellous Boy= (The), Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770).
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride.
Wordsworth.
=Marwood= (Alice), daughter of an old woman who called herself Mrs. Brown. When a mere girl she was concerned in a burglary and was transported. Carker, manager in the firm of Dombey and Son, seduced her, and both she and her mother determined on revenge. Alice bore a striking resemblance to Edith (Mr. Dombey's second wife), and in fact they were cousins, for Mrs. Brown was "wife" of the brother-in-law of the Hon. Mrs. Skewton (Edith's mother).--C. Dickens, Dombey and Son (1846).
Marwood (Mistress), jilted by Fainall, and soured against the whole male sex. She says, "I have done hating those vipers--men, and am now come to despise them;" but she thinks of marrying to keep her husband "on the rack of fear and jealousy."--W. Congreve, The Way of the World (1700).
=Mary=, the pretty housemaid of the worshipful, the mayor of Ipswich (Nupkins). When Arabella Allen marries Mr. Winkle, Mary enters her service; but eventually marries Sam Weller, and lives at Dulwich, as Mr. Pickwick's housekeeper.--C. Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1836).
Mary, niece of Valentine, and his sister Alice. In love with Mons. Thomas.--Beaumont and Fletcher, Mons. Thomas (1619).
Mary. The queen's Marys, four young ladies of quality, of the same age as Mary, afterwards "queen of Scots." They embarked with her in 1548, on board the French galleys, and were destined to be her playmates in childhood, and her companions when she grew up. Their names were Mary Beaton (or Bethune), Mary Livingston (or Leuison), Mary Fleming (or Flemyng), and Mary Seaton (Seton or Seyton).
[Asterism] Mary Carmichael has no place in authentic history, although an old ballad says:
Yestrien the queen had four Marys; This night she'll hae but three: There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton, And Mary Carmichael, and me.
[Asterism] One of Whyte Melville's novels is called The Queen's Marys.
=Mary Anne=, a slang name for the guillotine; also called L'abbaye de monte-à-regret ("the mountain of mournful ascent"). (See MARIANNE.)
Mary Anne, a generic name for a secret republican society in France. [TN-5]See MARIANNE.)--B. Disraeli, Lothair.
Mary Anne was the red-name for the republic years ago, and there always was a sort of myth that these secret societies had been founded by a woman.
The Mary-Anne associations, which are essentially republic, are scattered about all the provinces of France.--Lothair.
=Mary Graham=, an orphan adopted by old Martin Chuzzlewit. She eventually married Martin Chuzzlewit, the grandson, and hero of the tale.
=Mary Scudder.= Blue-eyed daughter of a "capable" New England housewife. From childhood she has loved her cousin. Her mother objects on the ground that James is "unregenerate," and brings Mary to accept Dr. Hopkins, her pastor. The doctor, upon discovering the truth, resigns his betrothed to the younger lover.--Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing (1862).
=Mary Stuart=, an historical tragedy by J. Haynes (1840). The subject is the death of David Rizzio.
[Asterism] Schiller has taken Mary Stuart for the subject of a tragedy. P. Lebrun turned the German drama into a French play. Sir W. Scott, in The Abbot, has taken for his subject the flight of Mary to England.
=Mary Tudor.= Victor Hugo has a tragedy so called (1833), and Tennyson, in 1878, issued a play entitled Queen Mary, an epitome of the reign of the Tudor Mary.
=Mary and Byron.= The "Mary" of Lord Byron was Miss Chaworth. Both were under the guardianship of Mr. White. Miss Chaworth married John Musters, and Lord Byron married Miss Milbanke; both equally unfortunate. Lord Byron, in The Dream, refers to his love-affair with Mary Chaworth.
=Mary in Heaven= (To) and Highland Mary, lyrics addressed by Robert Burns to Mary Campbell, between whom and the poet there existed a strong attachment previous to the latter's departure from Ayrshire to Nithsdale. Mary Morison, a youthful effusion, was written to the object of a prior passion. The lines in the latter
Those smiles and glances let me see, That make the miser's treasure poor,
resembles those in Highland Mary--
Still o'er those scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care.
=Mary of Mode′na=, the second wife of James II. of England, and mother of "The Pretender."
Mamma was to assume the character and stately way of the royal "Mary of Modena."--Percy Fitzgerald, The Parvenu Family, iii. 239.
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