Chapter Dinah to Dionysia of D by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Diner-Out of the First Water, the Rev. Sidney Smith; so called by the Quarterly Review (1769–1845).

Dinevawr or Dinas Vawr [“great palace”], the residence of the king of South Wales, built by Rhodri Mawr.

I was the guest of Rhy’s at Dinevawr,
And there the tidings found me, that our sire
Was gathered to his fathers.
   —Southey: Madoc, i. 3 (1805).

Dingle (Old Dick of the), friend of Hobbie Elliott of the Heugh-foot Farm.—Sir W. Scott: The Black Dwarf (time, Anne).

Dingley Dell, the home of old Wardle, etc., and the scene of Tupman’s love-advances with the “fair Miss Rachel.”—Dickens: The Pickwick Papers (1836).

Dingwall (Davie), the attorney at Wolf’s Hope village.—Sir W. Scott: Bride of Lammermoor (time, William III.).

Dinias and Dercyllis (The Wanderings, Adventures, and Loves of), an old Greek novel, the basis of the romance of Antonius Diogenês, in twenty-four books and entitled Incredible Things beyond Thule [Ta Huper Thoulen Apista], a store-house from which subsequent writers have borrowed largely. The work is not extant, but Photius gives an outline of its contents.

Dinmont (Dandie, i.e. Andrew), an eccentric and humorous store farmer at Charlie’s Hope. He is called “The Fighting Dinmont of Liddesdale.”

Ailie Dinmont, wife of Dandie Dinmont.—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

(This novel has been dramatized by Daniel Terry.)

Dinner Bell (The). Burke was so called from his custom of speaking so long as to interfere with the dinner of the members (1729–1797).

Dinnerless (The) are said to sit at a “Barmecide feast;” to “dine with duke Humphrey;” “to dine with sir Thomas Gresham;” to “dine with Democritos.” Their hosts are said to be cross-legged knights. (See each article.)

Diocletian, the king and father of Erastus, who was placed under the charge of the “seven wise masters” (Italian version).

In the French version, the father is called “Dolopathos.”

Diogenes , the negro slave of the cynic philosopher Michael Agelastês .—Sir W. Scott: Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus).

Diogenes’ Lanthorne, a satire in verse on London life by S. Rowlands, in 1607.

I’ll search the city, where, if I can see
An honest man, he shall gae with me.

Diomede fed his horses on human flesh, and he was himself eaten by his horse, being thrown to it by Herculês.

Dion (Lord), father of E uphrasia. Euphrasia is in love with Philaster, heir to the crown of Messina. Disguised as a page, Euphrasia assumes the name of Bellario and enters the service of Philaster.—Fletcher: Philaster, or Love Lies a bleeding (1620).

There is considerable resemblance between “Euphrasia” and “Viola,” in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1614).