Identifier: charactersketche00inbrew (find matches)
Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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Gerard, Artist. J, T. Richomme, Engraver. W ^APHNIS was the son of Mercury and a Sicilian nymph. He§ M obtained his name from being found, when an infant, by Sicilianshepherds, lying among the bay-trees or daphnes. The god Panbecame his instruStor, and taught him to play upon the pipes and to sing.His love of music was inspired by the Muses, and he was the foster-child ofthe Nymphs. Diana frequently chose him for her companion in hunting, andhe used to play for her upon his pipe when:they returned from the chase.He is said to have been the inventor of classical poetry. Daphnis becameattached to the Naiad Chloe, who bound him by an oath to be faithful toher under penalty of losing his sight. For some time he kept his oath, buthe finally broke the vow for the sake of a princess, and paid the penalty bybecoming blind. One authority states that the Naiad transformed him intoa rock, while Theocritus asserts that he refused to he comforted after be hadperjured himself, and pined to death.
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DAPHNIS 291 DARGONET Daphnis, a beautiful Sicilian shep-herd, the inventor of bucolic poetry. Hewas a son of Mercury, and friend both ofPan and Apollo. Daphnis, the modest shepherd. This is that modest shepherd, heThat only dare salute, but neer could beBrought to kiss any, hold discourse, or sing,Whisper, or boldly ask. John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, i. 3(1610). Daphnis and Chloe, a prose pastorallove story in Greek, by Longos (a Byzan-tine), not unhke the tale of The GentleShepherd, by Allan Ramsay. Gessner hasalso imitated the Greek romance in hisidyll called Daphnis. In this love story Lon-gos says he was hunting in Lesbos, andsaw in a grove consecrated to the nymphsa beautiful picture of children exposed,lovers plighting their faith, and the incur-sions of pirates, which he now expressesand dedicates to Pan, Cupid, and thenymphs. Daphnis, of course, is the loverof Chloe. Dapper, a lawyers clerk, who went toSubtle the alchemist, to be suppliedwith a familiar to make him

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