Character Sketches of Romance Volume Iii Part 76

=Philan'der=, of Holland, was a guest at the house of Arge'o, baron of Servia, and the baron's wife, Gabri'na, fell in love with him. Philander fled the house, and Gabrina told her husband he had abused her, and had fled out of fear of him. He was pursued, overtaken, and cast into a dungeon. One day Gabrina visited him there and asked him to defend her against a wicked knight. This he undertook to do, and Gabrina posted him in a place where he could make his attack. Philander slew the knight, but discovered that it was Argeo. Gabrina now declared she would give him up to justice unless he married her; and Philander, to save his life, did so. But in a very short time the infamous woman tired of her toy, and cut him off by poison.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

_Philander_, a dawdling lover; so called from Philander, the Dutch knight mentioned above, who was wooed by Gabrina. To "philander" is to hang about a woman in a half-hearted way; to toy.

Yes, I'll baste you together, you and your Philander.--W. Congreve, _The Way of the World_ (1700).

_Philander_, prince of Cyprus, pa.s.sionately in love with the Princess Ero'ta.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Laws of Candy_ (1647).

=Philanthropist= (_The_), John Howard (1726-1790).

=Philario=, an Italian, at whose house Posthumus made his silly wager with Iachimo. (See POSTHUMUS.)--Shakespeare, _Cymbeline_ (1605).

_Philario_, an Italian improvisatore, who remained faithful to Fazio even in disgrace.--Dean Milman, _Fazio_ (1815).

=Philaster= (_Prince_), heir to the crown of Messi'na. Euphra'sia, who was in love with Philaster, disguised herself as a boy, and, a.s.suming for the nonce the name of Bellario, entered the prince's service. Philaster, who was in love with the Princess Arethu'sa, transferred Bellario to her service, and then grew jealous of Arethusa's love for the young page.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Philaster_, or _Love Lies a-bleeding_ (?

1622).

There is considerable resemblance between Euphrasia and "Viola" in _Twelfth Night_ (Shakespeare, 1614).

=Philax=, cousin of the Princess Imis. The fay Pagan shut them up in the "Palace of Revenge," a superb crystal palace, containing every delight except the power of leaving it. In the course of a few years Imis and Philax longed as much for a separation as at one time they had wished for a union.--Comtesse D'Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ ("Palace of Revenge,"

1682).

=Phile'mon= (3 _syl._), an aged rustic who, with his wife, Baucis, hospitably received Jupiter and Mercury, after every one else had refused to receive them. The G.o.ds sent an inundation to destroy the inhospitable people, but saved Baucis and Philemon, and converted their cottage into a magnificent temple. At their own request the aged couple died on the same day, and were changed into two trees, which stood before the temple.--_Greek Mythology._

=Philinte= (2 _syl._), friend of Alceste (2 _syl._)[TN-88]--Moliere, _Le Misanthrope_ (1666).

=Philip=, father of William Swidger. His favorite expression was, "Lord, keep my memory green. I am 87."--C. d.i.c.kens, _The Haunted Man_ (1848).

_Philip_, the butler of Mr. Peregrine Lovel; a hypocritical, rascally servant, who pretends to be most careful of his master's property, but who in reality wastes it most recklessly, and enriches himself with it most unblus.h.i.+ngly. Being found out, he is summarily dismissed.--Rev. J.

Townley, _High Life Below Stairs_ (1759).

_Philip_ (_Father_), sacristan of St. Mary's.--Sir W. Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth).

=Philip Augustus=, king of France, introduced by Sir W. Scott in _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.).

=Philip Nolan=, officer in U. S. Navy, condemned by president of court martial for complicity with Aaron Burr, and for swearing at the United States, "never to hear the name of the United States again." He is pa.s.sed from one man-of-war to another, never allowed to converse upon national affairs, to see a U. S. newspaper or read a history of the United States, until homesick and heartsick, after an exile of fifty-five years, he dies, praying for the country that had disowned him.--Edward Everett Hale, _The Man Without a Country_ (1863).

=Philip Nye=, brought up for the Anglican Church, but became a Presbyterian, and afterwards an independent. He was noted for the cut of his beard.

This reverend brother, like a goat, Did wear a tail upon his throat.

But set in such a curious frame, As if 'twere wrought in filograin, And cut so even, as if 't had been Drawn with a pen upon his chin.

S. Butler, _On Philip Nye's Thanksgiving Beard_ (1652).

=Philip Ogden=, lover and hero in Blanche Willis Howard's _One Summer_. He is nearly blinded by the point of Leigh's umbrella at their first meeting, and after an idyllic courts.h.i.+p they are wedded (1875).

=Philip Quarl=, a castaway-sailor, who becomes a hermit. His "man Friday"

is a chimpanzee.--_Philip Quarl_ (1727).

=Philip's Four Daughters.= We are told, in _Acts_ xxi. 9, that Philip, the deacon or evangelist, had four daughters which did prophesy.

Helen, the mother of great Constantine, Nor yet St. Philip's daughters, were like thee [_Joan of Arc_].

Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 2 (1589).

=Philippe=, a parched and haggard wretch, infirm and bent beneath a pile of years, yet shrewd and cunning, greedy of gold, malicious, and looked upon by the common people as an imp of darkness. It was this old villain who told Thancmar that the provost of Bruges was the son of a serf on Thancmar's estates.--S. Knowles, _The Provost of Bruges_ (1836).

=Philippe Egalite=, (4 _syl._), Louis Philippe, duc d'Orleans (1747-1793).

=Philipson= (_The elder_), John, earl of Oxford, an exiled Lancastrian, who goes to France disguised as a merchant.

_Arthur Philipson_, Sir Arthur de Vere, son of the earl of Oxford, whom he accompanies to the court of King Rene of Provence.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Phil'isides= (3 _syl._), Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586).

It was the harp of Phil'isides, now dead....

And now in heaven a sign it doth appear, The Harp well known beside the Northern Bear.

Spenser, _The Ruins of Time_ (1591).

? _Phili[p] Sid[ney]_, with the Greek termination, makes _Phili-sides_.

Bishop Hall calls the word _Phil-is'-ides_: "Which sweet Philis'ides fetched of late from France."

=Philistines=, a t.i.tle complacently bestowed, in England and America, by the advance-guard in literature and art, on the Conservatives. The French equivalent is "les bourgeois."

Demonstrative and offensive whiskers, which are the special inheritance of the British Philistines.--Mrs. Oliphant, _Phbe, Junr._, i. 2.

=Phillips= (_Jessie_), the t.i.tle and chief character of a novel by Mrs.

Trollope, the object being an attack on the new poor-law system (1843).