Byron, Don Juan, iii. 11 (1820).
Dantê and-Virgil. Virgil was Dante's poetic master and is described as conducting him through the realms depicted in the Divina Commedia.
The poet married Gemma, of the powerful house of Donati. (See LOVES).
Dantê's Beard. All the pictures of
Dantê which I have seen represent him without any beard or hair on his face at all; but in Purgatory, xxxi., Beatrice says to him, "Raise thou thy beard, and lo! what sight shall do," i.e. lift up your face and look about you; and he adds, "No sooner lifted I mine aspect up ... than mine eyes (encountered) Beatrice."
Dan Devereux. A young Nantucket giant married to a dainty waif rescued in infancy from the sea. He marries her because she is homeless and seems to be in love with him. When too late, he knows that his affections are another's, and sees his wife fascinated by a handsome French adventurer. In an attempt to elope, the wife and her lover are wrecked, and clinging to a spar, are overtaken by the "terrible South Breaker—plunging and rearing and swelling, a monstrous billow, sweeping and swooping and rocking in." Dan in later life, marries Georgia, his first love.—Harriet Prescott Spofford, The South Breaker (1863).
Danton of the Cevennes. Pierre Seguier, prophet and preacher of Magistavols, in France. He was a leader amongst the Camisards.
Danvers (Charles), an embyro barrister of the Middle Temple.—C. Selby, The Unfinished Gentleman.
Daph'ne (2 syl.)., daughter of Sileno and Mysis, and sister of Nysa. The favorite of Apollo while sojourning on earth in the character of a shepherd lad named "Pol."—Kate O'Hara, Midas (a burletta, 1778).