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Titian. Tiziano Vecelli (1477-1576), a famous Venetian painter, Tityrus. (155)-A freedman in Virgil's Eclogues, supposed to represent Virgil himself. Tividale. See Teviotdale, Tiviot. See Teviot. Tmolus. A mountain range in Asia Minor. Tobin. James Webbe Tobin (d. 1814), an English lawyer. See note on Wordsworth's We Arc Seven, p. 1357b. Tolbooth. The principal prison in Edinburgh. Many criminals were executed in front of it. Tom Thumb. A legendary diminutive personage celebrated in English literature. Toms, Jo. Joseph Parkes (1796-1865), a Radical politician. Tonson, Jacob (c1656-1736). A prominent London publisher. Tooke. John Horne Tooke (1726-1812), an English politician, philosopher, and philologist; he opposed the war with America in 1776. Torfæus. Thormodr Torfason (1636-1719), an Icelandic antiquary and historian. Tory. The Tories, in English history, were members of one of the two great political parties which arose at the end of the 17th century. They favored conservative principles in church and state. Toulmin, Dr. Joshua Toulmin (1740-1815), a Dissenting historian and theologian. He preached at Taunton, Somersetshire, England, for nearly 40 years. Toulouse. A city in southern France; the scene of massacres of Huguenots in 1562 and 1572. Tourneur. Cyril Tourneur, an English tragic poet of the early 17th century. Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803). A Haitian revo lutionist and liberator. He was captured by the French and imprisoned for life. Tower; Tower of London. An ancient palace-citadel near the eastern wall of London. It was long a prison for political offenders; it is now a national arsenal. Towy. A river in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. Trafalgar. The name of a famous British naval victory over the French and Spanish, off Cape Trafalgar, on the southern coast of Spain, 1805. See p. 411. Trajan. Marcus Ulplus Trajanus, a famous Roman emperor (98-117). Trent. 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A romantic and beautiful valley between lakes Achray and Katrine in Perthshire, Scotland. Trout Hall. In The Complete Angler, a treatise by Izaak Walton (1593-1683), an English writer. Troy. An ancient city in Troas, Asia Minor, the scene of Homer's Iliad. Tryermaine. A fief of the Barony of Gilsland, in Tura. A castle of Ulster, North Ireland. Turkish Spy, The. An Italian romance by Giovanni Uam-Var. Ulva's Isle. A small island off the west coast of Ulz-water. Ullswater, a large lake between the Westmoreland, counties of Cumberland and England. Umfraville. Probably Sir Robert de Umfraville (d. 1436), Earl of Angus, a member of an influential Norman family in Northumberlandshire, England. He fought on the side of Henry IV and Henry Percy (Hotspur) against the Scots. The Umfravilles and the Percys were closely related. Una. In Spenser's The Faerie Queene, a beautiful maiden, the personification of truth. Upton. 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