Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4 / A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Sacred Thespīo.

Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, vii. (1633).

Thespis, the father of the Greek drama.

Thespis, the first professor of our art,

At country wakes sang ballads from a cart.

Dryden, Prologue to Sophonisba (1729).

Thes´tylis, a female slave; any rustic maiden.--Theocritos, Idylls.

With Thestylis to bind the sheaves.

Milton, L’Allegro (1638).

Thet´is, mother of Achillês. She was a sea-nymph, daughter of Nereus, the sea-god.--Grecian Story.