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"A Virtuoso's Collection" is the final short story in ''Mosses from an Old Manse'' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in ''Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion'', I (May 1842), 193-200. The story references a number of historical and mythical figures, items, beasts, books, etc. as part of a museum collection. Some scholars regard the real-life museum of the East India Marine Society in Salem, Massachusetts, as a model for Hawthorne's fictional museum.〔 (fulltext via HathiTrust)〕 The narrator is led through the collection by the virtuoso himself who turns out to be the Wandering Jew. == The Collection == * Opportunity, by the ancient sculptor Lysippus * The wolf that devoured Little Red Riding Hood * The she-wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus * Edmund Spenser's 'milk-white lamb' which Una led in ''The Faerie Queene'' * Alexander the Great's Bucephalus * Don Quixote's horse Rosinante * The donkey from William Wordsworth's Peter Bell: A Tale * The donkey from Book of Numbers chapter 22 that was beaten by Balaam * Argus, Ulysses' dog * Cerberus * The fox from Aesop's fable The Fox Who Lost Its Tail * Dr. Samuel Johnson's cat Hodge * The cat who saved Muhammad from a snake, or Muezza, the Prophet's pet. Perhaps both cats are in the collection. * Thomas Gray's inspiration for the poem "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes". The cat, Selima, belonged to Horace Walpole * Sir Walter Scott's cat Hinse * Puss in Boots * Bast, the Egyptian sun and war goddess, in her cat form * George Gordon Byron's pet bear * The Erymanthean Boar * St. George's Dragon. ''See'' Saint George and the Dragon * Python * The serpent which tempted Eve * The horn's of the stag poached by Shakespeare〔http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/rowe.htm〕 * The shell of the tortoise that supposedly killed Aeschylus * Apis, an Egyptian bull-deity * "The cow with the crumpled horn" from the nursery rhyme "This Is The House That Jack Built" * The cow that jumped over the moon from the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" * A griffin * The dove that brought the olive branch to Noah to signify that the flood was receding * Grip, the raven that belonged to Barnaby Rudge and later inspired Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" * The raven in which the soul of George I of Great Britain revisited his love, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal after his death * Minerva's owl * The vulture (or eagle) that daily ate Prometheus's liver * The sacred ibis of Egypt * One of the Stymphalian birds shot by Hercules. ''See'' Labours of Hercules * Percy Bysshe Shelley's skylark from "To a Skylark" * William Cullen Bryant's water-fowl from "To a Waterfowl" * A pigeon, preserved by Nathaniel Parker Willis, from the belfry of Old South Church in Boston * The albatross from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' * A domestic goose from the temple of Juno on the Capitoline Hill. Livy claimed these geese saved Rome from the Gauls around 390 BC. * Robinson Crusoe's parrot * A live phoenix * A footless bird of paradise or Huma bird * The peacock that once contained the soul of Pythagoras 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Virtuoso's Collection」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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