Feliciano de Sylva, Don Quixote’s favorite author. The two following extracts were, in his opinion, unsurpassed and unsurpassable:—
The reason, most adored one, of your unreasonable unreasonableness hath so unreasonably unseated my reason, that I have no reasonable reason for reasoning against such unreasonableness.
The bright heaven of your divinity that lifts you to the stars, most celestial of women, renders you deserving of every desert which your charms so deservedly deserve.—Cervantes, Don Quixote, I. i. 8 (1605).
Félicie, happy French girl, the daughter of Jean and Gabrielle Waldo. Her mother gives her poison by mistake, from the effects of which she is relieved by John of Lugio, summoned from his home many leagues away, “In His Name.”—Edward Everett Hale, In His Name (1887).
Felix, a monk who listened to the singing of a milk-white bird for a hundred years; which length of time seemed to him “but a single hour,” so enchanted was he with the song.—Longfellow, The Golden Legend. (See also Hildesheim.)
Felix (Don), son of Don Lopez. He was a Portuguese nobleman, in love with Violante; but Violante’s father, Don Pedro, intended to make her a nun. Donna Isabella, having fled from home to avoid a marriage disagreeable to her, took refuge with Violante; and when Colonel Briton called at the house to see Donna Isabella, her brother Don Felix was jealous, believing that Violante was the object of his visits. Violante kept “her friend’s secret,” even at the risk of losing her lover; but ultimately the mystery was cleared up, and a double marriage took place.—Mrs. Centlivre, The Wonder (1714).
Felix Holt (See Holt).
Felix (M. Minucius), a Roman lawyer, who flourished A.D. 230; he wrote a dialogue entitled Octavius, which occupies a conspicuous place among the early Apologies of Christianity.
Like Menucius Felix, she believed that evil demons hid themselves in the marbles [statues].—Ouida, Ariadnê, i. 9.
Felix (St.), of Burgundy, who converted Sigbert (Sigebert or Sabert) king of the East Saxons, (A.D. 604).—Ethelwerd, Chronicles, v.