night she'll hae but three:
There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton,
And Mary Carmichael, and me.
[Asterism] One of Whyte Melville's novels is called _The Queen's Marys_.
=Mary Anne=, a slang name for the guillotine; also called _L'abbaye de
monte-[`a]-regret_ ("the mountain of mournful ascent"). (See MARIANNE.)
_Mary Anne_, a generic name for a secret republican society in France.
[TN-5]See MARIANNE.)--B. Disraeli, _Lothair_.
Mary Anne was the red-name for the republic years ago, and there
always was a sort of myth that these secret societies had been
founded by a woman.
The Mary-Anne associations, which are essentially republic, are
scattered about all the provinces of France.--_Lothair._
=Mary Graham=, an orphan adopted by old Martin Chuzzlewit. She eventually
married Martin Chuzzlewit, the grandson, and hero of the tale.
=Mary Scudder.= Blue-eyed daughter of a "capable" New England housewife.
From childhood she has loved her cousin. Her mother objects on the
ground that James is "unregenerate," and brings Mary to accept Dr.
Hopkins, her pastor. The doctor, upon discovering the truth, resigns his
betrothed to the younger lover.--Harriet Beecher Stowe, _The Minister's
Wooing_ (1862).
=Mary Stuart=, an historical tragedy by J. Haynes (1840). The subject is
the death of David Rizzio.
[Asterism] Schiller has taken Mary Stuart for the subject of a tragedy.
P. Lebrun turned the German drama into a French play. Sir W. Scott, in
_The Abbot_, has taken for his subject the flight of Mary to England.
=Mary Tudor.= Victor Hugo has a tragedy so called (1833), and Tennyson, in
1878, issued a play entitled _Queen Mary_, an epitome of the reign of
the Tudor Mary.
=Mary and Byron.= The "Mary" of Lord Byron was Miss Chaworth. Both were
under the guardianship of Mr. White. Miss Chaworth married John Musters,
and Lord Byron married Miss Milbanke; both equally unfortunate. Lord
Byron, in _The Dream_, refers to his love-affair with Mary Chaworth.
=Mary in Heaven= (_To_) and _Highland Mary_, lyrics addressed by Robert
Burns to Mary Campbell, between whom and the poet there existed a strong
attachment previous to the latter's departure from Ayrshire to
Nithsdale. _Mary Morison_, a youthful effusion, was written to the
object of a prior passion. The lines in the latter
Those smiles and glances let me see,
That make the miser's treasure poor,
resembles tho
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