Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama (1892) (14598351190)

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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le man-ners, and amiable disj)Osition. He fell inlove with Giauhare, daughter of the king l^he Marriage of Bedredeen Hassanand Nouredeen F. Cormoii, Artist /t FTER the genie and the fairy had carried Bedredeen from the cave/~w where they had found him sleeping to Cairo, they set Intn downnear where the Hunchback bridegroom, whose place he was to take,should appear. The genie instruSled him as to what he was to do. Bedredeen obeyed very exaSlly the directions of his invisible patron. Hejoined the throng, entered tiie hall, and took the place of the bridegroom.His fine figure attracted every eye, and his generosity gained him the goodopinion of all the attendants. The bride was no less struck with his appear-ance ; and when, according to the custom of the Arabians, she came topresent herself to her husband seven times in as many different iplendiddresses, she passed by unnoticed the hateful Hunchback, and approached theagreeable stranger as her bridegroom. Arabian Nights Entertainments.
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MARRIAGE OF BEDREDEEN HASSAN AND NOUREDEEN. BEDER 111 BEELZEBUB of Samandal, the most powerful of the un-der-sea empires, but Giauhare changed himinto a white bird with red beak and redlegs. After various adventures, Beder re-sumed his human form and married Griau-hare.—Arabian Nights ( Beder and Griau-hare). Bedivere (Sir) or Bediver, king Ar-thurs butler and a knight of the RoundTable. He was the last of Arthurs knights,and was sent by the dying king to throwhis sword Exealibur into the mere. Beingcast in, it was caught by an arm clothedin white samite, and diawn into thestream.—Tennyson, Morte dJArthur. Tennysons Morte cfArtkiir is a veryclose and in many parts a verbal renderingof the same tale in sir Thomas MalorysMorte cVArthur, iii. 168 (1470). Bedloe (Augustus), an eccentric Virgin-ian, an opium-eater, and easily hypnotized,in Edgar Allan Poes Tale of the RaggedMountains (1846). Bedott (Widow). (See Hezeeiah Be- DOTT.) Bedouiiis (Bed .winB^ nomadic tribesof Arabia. In comm