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

by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Why, this is worse than Prince Volscius in love!--Sir W. Scott.

Oh, be merry, by all means. Prince Volscius in love! Ha, ha, ha!--W. Congreve, The Double Dealer (1694).

Volsunga Saga (The), a collection of tales in verse about the early Teutonic heroes, compiled by Sæmund Sigfusson in the eleventh century. A prose version was made some 200 years later by Snorro Sturleson. This saga forms a part of the Rhythmical[Rhythmical], or Elder Edda, and of the Prose, or Younger Edda.

Voltaire (The German), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1838).

Christoph Martin Wieland is also called “The German Voltaire” (1733-1813).

Voltaire (The Polish), Ignatius Krasicki (1774-1801).

Voltaire (The Russian), Alex P. Sumorokof (1727-1777).

Vol´timand, a courtier in the court of Claudius, king of Denmark.--Shakespeare, Hamlet (1596).

Volumnia was the wife of Coriolanus, and Vetu´ria his mother; but Shakespeare makes Virgilia the wife, and Volumnia the mother.--Coriolanus (1610).

The old man’s merriment in Menenius; the lofty lady’s dignity in Volumnia; the bridal modesty in Virgilia; the patrician and military haughtiness in Coriolanus; the plebeian malignity and tribunitian insolence in Brutus and Sicinius, make a very pleasing and interesting variety.--Dr. Johnson.