Chapter Emeralder to Enfants de Dieu of E by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Em’ly (Little), daughter of Tom, the brother-in-law of Dan’el Peggotty, a Yarmouth fisherman, by whom the orphan child was brought up. While engaged to Ham Peggotty (Dan’el’s nephew), Little Em’ly runs away with Steerforth, a handsome but unprincipled gentleman. Being subsequently reclaimed, she emigrates to Australia with Dan’el Peggotty and old Mrs. Gummidge.—Dickens: David Copperfield (1849).

Emma “the Saxon” or Emma Plantagenet, the beautiful, gentle, and loving wife of David king of North Wales (twelfth century).—Southey: Madoc (1805).

Empedocles, one of Pythagoras’s scholars, who threw himself secretly into the crater of Etna, that people might suppose the gods had carried him to heaven; but alas! one of his iron pattens was cast out with the larva, and recognized.

He who to be deemed
A god, leaped fondly into Etna flames,
Empedocles.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, iii. 469, etc. (1665).

Matthew Arnold published a dramatic poem called Empedocles on Etna (1853).

Emperor for my People. Hadrian used to say, “I am emperor not for myself but for my people” (76, 117–138).

Emperor of Believers (The), Omar I., father-in-law of Mahomet (581–644).

Emperor of the Mountains (The), Peter the Calabrian, a famous robber-chief (1812).

Empson (Master), flageolet-player to Charles II.—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak (1823).

Enanthe , daughter of Sele ucus, and mistress of prince Demetrius (son of king Antigonus). She appears under the name of Celia.—Beaumont and Fletcher: The Humorous Lieutenant (published 1647).

Encelados (Longfellow, Enceladus), the most powerful of all the giants who conspired against Jupiter. He was struck with a thunderbolt, and covered with the heap of earth now called mount Etna. The smoke of the volcano is the breath of the buried giant; and when he shifts his side it is an earthquake.

Fama est, Enceladi semiustum fulmine corpus
Urgueri mole hac, ingentemque insuper Ætnam
Inpositam, ruptis flammam exspirare caminis;
Et, fessum quotiens mutet latus, intremere omnem
Murmure Trinacriam, et cœlum subtexere fumo.
   —Vigil: Æneid, iii. 578–582.

Where the burning cinders, blown
From the lips of the o’erthrown
Enceladus, fill the air.
   —Longfellow: Enceladus.

Enchiridion, a collection of maxims, by Francis Quarles (author of Emblems) (1652).

Encrates , Temperance personified, the husband of Agneia (wifely chastity). When his wife’s sister Parthenia (maidenly chastity) was wounded in the battle of Mansoul, by False Delight, he and his wife ran to her assistance, and soon routed the foes who were hounding her. Continence (her lover) went also, and poured a balm into her wounds, which healed them. (Greek, egkrdtês, “continent, temperate.”)

So have I often seen a purple flower,
Fainting thro’ heat, hang down her drooping head;
But, soon refreshed with a welcome shower,
Begins again her lively beauties spread,
And with new pride her silken leaves display.
   —P. Fletcher: The Purple Island, xi. (1633).

Endell (Martha), a poor fallen girl, to whom Em’ly goes when Steerforth deserts her. She emigrates with Dan’el Peggotty, and marries a young farmer in Australia.—Dickens: David Copperfield (1849).