1894 Brewer’s / A / Adolpha
Daughter of General Kleiner, governor of Prague and wife of Idenstein. Her only fault was “excess of too sweet nature, which ever made another’s grief her own.”—Knowles: Maid of Mariendorpt (1838).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.