Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama (1892) (14598347090)

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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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tist M. tVeber, Engraver BARFUSSLE, or Little Barefoot, a German peasant child. She was early orphaned and left alone in the world with her brother, dependent upon the parish in which her father and mother had lived. From them she bad inherited a sturdy independence that made her refuse to accept any gift she had not earned, and willing to do any work to support herself . She was first gooseherd, then domestic servant on a farm. To save her shoes, she went barefoot, and thus earned her nickname. Her 4 J brother was a weak, incompetent boy, and upon her fell the burden of planning and caring for him. She was taken to a wedding feast, as a rare treat, and while there danced with a young man, to whom she lost her heart. He was a stranger, and came to her home, later, seeking a wife among the farmers daughters. Finding her, however, he asked her to be his wife, and took her from her position as servant to his own fine farm, several leagues from her old home. Berthold Auerbachs Barfüßele
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LITTLE BAREFOOT. BAEDON 99 BARLEYCORN troop of lieutenant Fitzurse.—Sir W.Scott, Ivanlioe (time, Richard I.). Barefoot Boy, reminiscence of the authors own boyhood in Whittiers poem, The Barefoot Boy. Prince thou art,—the grown-up man Only is republican. Barfere (2 syl.), an advocate of Toulouse ,called The Anacreon of the Guillotine .He was president of the ConA-ention, a member of the Constitutional Committee, and chief agent in the condemnation to death of Louis XVI. As member of the Committee of Public Safety, he decreed that Terror must be the order of the day. In the first empire Barere bore no public part, but at the restoration he wa sbanished from France, and retired to Brussels (1755-18-41). The filthiest and most spiteful Yahoo of the fiction was a noble creature compared with the Barere of history.—Lord Macaulay. Barfüßele, pretty German child, left an orphan at a tender age, and east upon the world. She maintains herself reputably and resists many temptations until she is happily ma

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