Chapter Donnerhugel to D'Ormeo of D by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Why, sir William, it is a romance, a novel, a pleasanter history by half than the loves of Dorastus and Faunia.—Bickerstaff: Love in a Village, iii. 1.

Dorax, the assumed name of don Alonzo of Alcazar, when he deserted Seb astian king of Portugal, turned renegade, and joined the emperor of Barbary. The cause of his desertion was because Sebastian gave to Henriquez the lady Violante , betrothed to himself. The quarrel between Sebastian and Dorax is a masterly imitation of the quarrel and reconciliation of Brutus and Cassius in Shakespeare’s Julius Cæsar.—Dryden: Don Sebastian (1690).

Like “Dorax” in the play. I submitted, “tho’ with swelling heart.”—Sir W. Scott.

N.B.—This quotation is not exact. It occurs in the “quarrel.” Sebastian says to Dorax, “Confess, proud spirit, that better he [Henriquez] deserved my love than thou.” To this Dorax replies—

I must grant,
Yes, I must grant, but with a swelling soul,
Henriquez had your love with more desert;
For you he fought and died; I fought against you.
   —Drayton: Don Sebastian (1690).

Dorcas, servant to squire Ingoldsby.—Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet (time, George III.).

Dorcas, an old domestic at Cumnore Place.—Sir W. Scott: Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).

Dorcas Society, a society for supplying the poor with clothing; so called from Dorcas, who “made clothes for the poor,” mentioned in Acts ix. 39.

Doric Land, Greece, of which Doris was a part.

Thro’ all the bounds
Of Doric land.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, i. 519 (1665).

Doric Reed, pastoral poetry, simple and unornamented poetry; so called because everything Doric was remarkable for its chaste simplicity.

Doricourt, the fiancé of Letitia Hardy. A man of the world and the rage of the London season; he is, however, both a gentleman and a man of honour. He had made the “grand tour,” and considered English beauties insipid.—Mrs. Cowley: The Belle’s Stratagem (1780).

Montague Talbot [1778–1831]
He reigns o’er comedy supreme …
None show for light and airy sport,
So exquisite as Doricourt.
   —Crofton Croker.

Doricourt is one of the dramatis personœ of The Way of the World, by Congreve (1700).

Doridon, a lovely swain, nature’s “chiefest work,” more beantiful than Narcissus, Ganimede, or Adonis.—Browne: Britannia’s Pastorals (1613).

Dorigen, a lady of high family, who married Arviragus out of pity. (See Arviragus, p. 66.)

Dorimant, a genteel, witty libertine. The original of this character was the earl of Rochester.—Etherege: The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter (1676).

The Dorimants and the lady Touchwoods, in their own sphere, do not offend my moral sense, in fact, they do not appeal to it at all.—C. Lamb.

(The “lady Touchwood” in Congreve’s Double Dealer, not the “lady Frances Touchwood” in Mrs. Cowley’s Belle’s Stratagem, which is quite another character.)

Dorimène , daughter of Alcantor, beloved by Sga narelle and Lycaste . She loved “le jeu, les visites, les assemblés, les cadeaux, et les promenades, en un mot toutes le choses de plaisir,” and wished to marry