Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—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).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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