EGMONT 
 
 
order of Philip II. of Spain.-Goethe's 
.Eqmont (1788). 
 
  Egypt, in Dryden's satire of Absalom 
and Achitophel, means France. 
Egypt and Tyrus [Holland] intercept your 
    trade. 
                           Part i. (1681). 
  Egyptian Princess. Nitetis, the real 
daughter of Hophra, king of Egypt, and 
the assumed daughter of Amases, his suc- 
cessor. She was sent to Persia, as the 
bride of Cambyses, the king, but before 
their marriage, was falsely accused of in- 
fidelity, and committed suicide.-George 
Ebers, An Egyptian Princess. 
 
  Egyptian Thief (The), Thyimis, a na- 
tive of Memphis. Knowing lie must die, 
he tried to kill Chariclea, the woman he 
loved. 
  Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, 
  Like to th' Egyptian thief at point of death, 
  Kill what I love? 
Shakespeare, Twelth Night, act v. se. 1 (1614). 
 
  Eighth Wonder (The). When Gil Blas 
reached Pennaflor, a parasite entered his 
room in the inn, hugged him with great 
energy, and called him the" eighth wonder." 
When Gil Blas replied that he did not 
know his name had spread so far, the par- 
asite exclaimed, "How? we keep a regis- 
ter of all the celebrated names within 
twenty leagues, and have no doubt Spain 
will one day be as proud of you as Greece 
was of the seven sages." After this, Gil 
Blas could do no less than ask the man to 
sup with him. Omelet after omelet was 
despatched, trout was called for, bottle fol- 
lowed bottle, and when the parasite was 
gorged to satiety, he rose and said, "Sig- 
nor Gil Blas, don't believe yourself to be 
the eighth wonder of the world because a 
hungry man would feast by flattering your 
 
 
vanity." So saying, he stalked away with 
a laugh.-Lesage, Gil Blas, i. 2 (1715). 
   (This incident is copied from Aleman's 
romance of Guzman d' Alfarache, q. v.) 
 
  Eikon BasiI'iki (4 syl.), the portraiture 
of a king (i. e. Charles I.), once attributed 
to King Charles himself; but now admit- 
ted to be the production of Dr. John Gau- 
den, who (after the restoration) was first 
created Bishop of Exeter, and then of 
Worcester (1605-1662). 
  In the Eikon BasilikU a strain of majestic 
melancholy is kept up, but the personated sov- 
ereign is rather too theatrical for real nature, 
the language is too rhetorical and amplified, the 
periods too artificially elaborated.-Hallam, Lit- 
erature of Europe, iii. 662. 
 
  (Milton wrote his Eikonoclas~ts in an- 
swer to Dr. Gauden's Eikon Baslike.) 
 
  Einer'iar, the hall of Odin, and asylum 
of warriors slain in battle. It had 540 
gates, each sufficiently wide to admit eight 
men abreast to pass through.-Scandina- 
i'ian Mythology. 
 
  Einion (Father), Chaplain to Gwenwyn 
Prince of Powys-land.-Sir W. Scott, The 
Betrothed (time, Henry II.). 
 
  Eiros. Imaginary personage, who in 
the other   world  holds  converse with 
"Charmion" upon the tragedy that has 
wrecked the world. The cause of the ruin 
was "the extraction of the nitrogen from 
the atmosphere." 
  "The whole incumbent mass of ether in which 
we existed burst at once into a speeies ofintense 
flame for whose surpassing brilliancy and all 
fervid heat even the angels in the high Heaven 
of pure knowledge have no name. Thus ended 
all."-Edgar Allen Poe, Conversation of Eiros and 
Charmion (1849). 
 
  Elvir, a Danish maid, who assumes 
 
 
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