E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Masson, David
(b. Aberdeen, December 2nd, 1822). “Essays, Biographical and Critical, chiefly on English Poets” (1856), “The Life of John Milton” (six vols., 1858–79), “British Novelists and their Styles” (1859); “Recent British Philosophy” (1865), “Drummond of Hawthornden” (1873); “The Three Devils—Milton’s, Luther’s, and Goethe’s” (1874); “Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, etc.” (1874); “De Quincey” in the English Men of Letters series (1878), “A Memoir of Goldsmith” (1879); “Carlyle” (1885). “Edinburgh Sketches and Memories” (1892). Has edited Cambridge “Milton” (1874); the Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, etc.
