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Holofernes

noun
1.
(Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith.





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"Holofernes" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lost is an example of the poet's first independent work. In this play such characters as Holofernes the schoolmaster, Costard the clown and Adriano the fantastic Spaniard are all plainly of the "stock" variety; various rimes and meters are used experimentally; blank verse is not mastered; and some of the songs, such as "On a Day," are more or less artificial. Other ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long
... Polly. The story is widely circulated, appearing in the folk-songs of nearly all the nations of northern and southern Europe. It has been suggested that the popular legend may be "a wild shoot from the story of Judith and Holofernes." Dowie, doleful. ...
— Ballad Book • Katherine Lee Bates (ed.)
... the first dawn of that higher and more tender humour which was never given in such perfection to any man as ultimately to Shakespeare; one touch of the by-play of Launce and his immortal dog is worth all the bright fantastic interludes of Boyet and Adriano, Costard and Holofernes; worth even half the sallies of Mercutio, and half the dancing doggrel or broad-witted prose of either Dromio. But in the final poem which concludes and crowns the first epoch of Shakespeare's work, the special graces and peculiar glories of each that went ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... expedition, that Bethulia was besieged by Holofernes, one of Nabuchodonosor's generals; and that the famous enterprise of ...
— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin
... through the provinces that Holofernes of old time had traversed with all his hosts, and the people supposed that Holofernes had come again, for as they journeyed into any town they were meekly and worshipfully received, and evermore they told what they had seen, done, and heard, so that their name and praise were never ...
— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various


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