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D CHLOE....................GERARD DARBY AND JOAN IN HIGH-LIFE..........C. DENDY SADLER D'ARTAGNAN........................... DEANS (EFFIE) AND HER SISTER IN THE PRISON...R. HERDMAN DERBLAY (MADAME) STOPS THE DUEL......EMILE BAYARD DIDO ON THE FUNERAL PYRE.............E. KELLER DOMBEY (PAUL AND FLORENCE).......... EGMONT AND CLAeRCHEN..................C. HUEBERLIN ELECTRA..............................E. TESCHENDORFF ELIZABETH AND MARY STUART............W. VON KAULBACH ELIZABETH, THE LANDGRAVINE...........THEODOR PIXIS ELLEN, THE LADY OF THE LAKE..........J. ADAMS-ACTON ELLIE (LITTLE)....................... ERMINIA AND THE SHEPHERDS............DOMENICHINO ESMERALDA............................G. BRION ESTE (LEONORA D') AND TASSO..........W. VON KAULBACH EVANGELINE...........................EDWIN DOUGLAS EVE'S FAREWELL TO PARADISE...........E. WESTALL * * * * * CHARACTER SKETCHES OF ROMANCE, FICTION, AND THE DRAMA. AA'RON, a Moor, beloved by Tam'ora, queen of the Goths, in the tragedy of _Titus Andron'icus_, published among the plays of Shakespeare (1593). (The classic name is _Andronicus_, but the character of this play is purely fictitious.) _Aaron (St.)_, a British martyr of the City of Legions (_Newport_, in South Wales). He was torn limb from limb by order of Maximian'us Hercu'lius, general in Britain, of the army of Diocle'tian. Two churches were founded in the City of Legions, one in honor of St. Aaron and one in honor of his fellow-martyr, St. Julius. Newport was called Caerleon by the British. ... two others ... sealed their doctrine with their blood; St. Julius, and with him St. Aaron, have their room At Carleon, suffering death by Diocletian's doom. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xxiv, (1622). AAZ'IZ (3 _syl._), so the queen of Sheba or Saba is sometimes called; but in the Koran she is called Balkis (ch. xxvii.). ABAD'DON, an angel of the bottomless pit (_Rev_. ix. 11). The word is derived from the Hebrew, _abad_, "lost," and means _the lost one_. There are two other angels introduced by Klopstock in _The Messiah_ with similar names, but must not be confounded with the angel referred to in _Rev_.; one is Obaddon, the angel of death, and the other Abbad'ona, the repentant devil. AB'ARIS, to whom Apollo gave a golden arrow, on which to ride through the air.--See _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_. ABBAD'ONA, once the frie
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