O’ the foil, and brought Mannaia on the stage.
R. Browning, The Ring and the Book, iii. (date of the story, 1487).
Mannering (Guy) or Colonel Mannering.
Mrs. Mannering (née Sophia Wellwood), wife of Guy Mannering.
Julia Mannering, daughter of Guy. She marries Captain Bertram. “Rather a hare-brained girl, but well deserving the kindest regards” (act i. 2 of the dramatized version).
Sir Paul Mannering, uncle to Guy Mannering.—Sir. W. Scott, Guy Mannering (time, George II.).
⁂ Scott’s tale of Guy Mannering has been dramatized by Daniel Terry.
Manon l’Escaut, the heroine of a French novel, entitled Histoire de Chevalier Desgrieux et de Manon Lescot, by A. F. Prévost (1733). Manon is the “fair mischief” of the story. Her charms seduce and ruin the Chevalier des Grieux, who clings to her through all her career with an unconquered passion, forgiving and forgetting to the tragic end when she dies as a convict in the wilds of Louisiana.
Manri´co, the supposed son of Azuce´na, the gypsy, but in reality the son of Garzia (brother of the conte di Luna). Leono´ra is in love with him, but the count entertains a base passion for her, and, getting Manrico into his power, condemns him to death. Leonora promises the count to give herself to him if he will spare the life of Manrico. He consents, but while he goes to release his “nephew,” Leonora sucks poison from a ring and dies. Manrico, on perceiving this, dies also.—Verdi, Il Trovato´rê (an opera, 1853).
Mans (The Count of), Roland, nephew of Charlemagne. He is also called the “knight of Blaives.”