Chapter Elfenreigen to Elmo of E by Brewer's Readers Handbook

brothers. At the death of these two brothers, Elidure was taken from prison, and mounted the British throne for the third time.—Geoffrey: British History, iii. 17, 18 (1470).

Then Elidure again, crowned with applausive praise,
As he a brother raised, by brothers was deposed
And put into the Tower…but, the usurpers dead,
Thrice was the British crown set on his reverend head.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, viii. (1612).

(Wordsworth has a poem on this subject.)

Elijah fed by Ravens. While Elijah was at the brook Cherith, in concealment, ravens brought him food every morning and evening.—1 Kings xvii. 6.

A strange parallel is recorded of Wyatt, in the reign of queen Mary. The queen cast him into prison, and when he was nearly starved to death, a cat appeared at the window-grating, and dropped into his hand a pigeon, which the warder cooked for him. This was repeated daily.

In the Dictionary of Miracles are numerous parallels.

Elim, the guardian angel of Lebbeus the apostle. Lebbeus, the softest and most tender of the twelve, at the death of Jesus “sank under the burden of his grief.”—Klopstock: The Messiah, iii. (1748).

Elion, consort of Beruth, and father of Ghe.—Sanchoniathon.

Eliot (George), a name assumed by Marian Evans, afterwards Mrs. J. W. Cross, author of Adam Bede (1858), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1863), Middlemarch (1872), etc.

Elisa, often written Eliza in English, Dido queen of Carthage.

…nec me meminisse pigebit Elisæ,
Dum memoir ipse mei, dum spiritus hos reget artus.
Virgil: Æneid, iv. 335, 336.
So to Eliza dawned that cruel day
Which tore Æneas from her sight away,
That saw him parting, never to return,
Herself in funeral flames decreed to burn.
   —Falconer: The Shipwreck, iii. 4 (1756).

Elisabat, a famous surgeon, who attended queen Madasima in all her solitary wanderings, and was her sole companion.—Amadis of Gaul (fifteenth century).

Élisabeth ou Les Exiles de Sibérie, a tale by S. R. dame Cottin (1773–1807). The family being exiled for some political offence, Elizabeth walked all the way from Siberia to Russia, to crave pardon of the czar. She obtained her prayer and the family returned. (See Deans, Effie, p. 266.)

Elise , the motherless child of Harpagon the miser. She was affianced to Valère, by whom she had been “rescued from the waves.” Valère turns out to be the son of don Thomas d’Alburci, a wealthy nobleman of Naples.—Molière: L’Avare (1667).

Elissa, step-sister of Medina and Perissa. They could never agree upon any subject.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii. 2 (1590).

“Medina” (the golden mean), “Elissa” and “Perissa” (the two extremes).

Elixir Vitæ, a drug which it was once thought would ensure perpetual life and health.

He that has once the “Flower of the Sun.”
The perfect Ruby which we call elixir,
…by its virtue
Can confer honour, love, respect, long life,
Give safety, valour, yea and victory,
To whom he will. In eight and twenty days
He’ll make an old man of fourscore a child.
   —Ben Jonson: The Alchemist, ii. (1610).

Eliza (Letters to), ten letters addressed to Mrs. Draper, wife of a counsellor of Bombay, and published 1775.