Dean Milman, Fazio, ii.  I (1815).

DANGEAU (Jouer a la), to play as good a hand at cards as Phillippe de Courcillon, marquis de Dangeau (1638-1720).

DAN’GERFLELD (Captain), a hired witness in the “Popish Plot”—­Sir W. Scott, Pe-veril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

DANGLE, a gentleman bitten with the theatrical mania, who annoys a manager with impertinent flattery and advice.  It is said that Thomas Vaughan, a playwright of small reputation, was the original of this character.—­Sheridan, The Critic (see act i.  I), (1779).

DAN’HASCH, one of the genii who did not “acknowledge the great Solomon.”

When the Princess Badoura in her sleep was carried to the bed of Prince Camaral’zaman that she might see him, Danhasch changed himself into a flea, and bit her lip, at which Badoura awoke, saw the prince sleeping by her side, and afterwards became his wife.—­Arabian Nights ("Camaralzarnan and Badoura.”)

DANIEL, son of Widow Lackitt; a wealthy Indian planter.  A noodle of the softest mould, whom Lucy Weldon marries for his money.—­Thomas Southern, Oroonoko (1696).

DAN’NISCHEMEND, the Persian sorcerer, mentioned in Donnerhugel’s narrative.—­Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).

DANTE AND BEATRICE.  Some say that Beatrice, in Dante’s Divina Commedia, merely personifies faith; others think it a real character, and say she was the daughter of the illustrious family of Portinari, for whom the poet entertained a purely platonic affection.  She meets the poet after he has been dragged through the river Lethe (Purgatory, xxxi), and conducts him through paradise.  Beatrice Portina’ri married Simon de Bardi, and died at the age of 24; Dante was a few months older.

  Some persons say that Dante meant Theology
  By Beatrice, and not a mistress; I ... 
  Deem this a commentator’s phantasy.

Byron, Don Juan, iii. 11 (1820).

DANTE AND-VIRGIL.  Virgil was Dante’s poetic master and is described as conducting him through the realms depicted in the Divina Commedia.

[Illustration] The poet married Gemma, of the powerful house of Donati. (See LOVES).

Dante’s Beard.  All the pictures of

Dante which I have seen represent him without any beard or hair on his face at all; but in Purgatory, xxxi., Beatrice says to him, “Raise thou thy beard, and lo! what sight shall do,” i.e. lift up your face and look about you; and he adds, “No sooner lifted I mine aspect up ... than mine eyes (encountered) Beatrice.”

DAN DEVEREUX.  A young Nantucket giant married to a dainty waif rescued in infancy from the sea.  He marries her because she is homeless and seems to be in love with him.  When too late, he knows that his affections are another’s, and sees his wife fascinated by a handsome French adventurer.  In an attempt to elope, the wife and her lover are wrecked, and clinging to a spar, are overtaken by the “terrible South Breaker—­plunging and rearing and swelling, a monstrous billow, sweeping and swooping and rocking in.”  Dan in later life, marries Georgia, his first love.—­Harriet Prescott Spofford, The South Breaker (1863).