Heart.-A millstone and the human HEART are driven ever round,
If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be
ground.-LONGFELLOW, The Restless Heart.

A HEART to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
GIBBON, Decline and Fall.

HEART to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.-JUNIUS, Letter xxxvii.

Hearts. When true HEARTS lie wither'd

And fond ones are flown,

Oh! who would inhabit

This bleak world alone ?-MOORE, Last Rose of Summer.

Heaven.—A HEAVEN on earth.-MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Beholding HEAVEN and feeling hell.

MOORE, The Fire Worshippers.

In hope to merit HEAVEN by making earth a hell.

BYRON, Childe Harold.

MARLOWE, Faustus.

All places shall be hell that are not HEAVEN.

HEAVEN'S ebon vault,

Studded with stars unutterably bright,

Thro' which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,

Seems like a canop, which love has spread

To curtain her sleeping world.—SHELLEY, Queen Mab.
Look how the floor of HEAVEN

Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,

Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims:

Such harmony is in immortal souls;

But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay

Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

SHAKESPERE, Merchant of Venice.

Hecuba.-What's HECUBA to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?—Ibid., Hamlet.
Hell.-All HELL broke loose.-MILTON, Paradise Lost.
HELL is full of good meanings and wishings.

HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum.
HELL is paved with good intentions. -BoswELL, Johnson.
The fear o' HELL'S a hangman's whip

To haud the wretch in order;
But where ye feel your honour grip,
Let that aye be your border.

BURNS, Epistle to a Young Friend.

Hell.-In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon :-" In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 'tis not good manners to mention here."-TOM BROWN, Laconics.

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite,

Who never mentions HELL to ears polite.-POPE, Moral Essays.
Which way shall I fly,

Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?

Which way I fly is HELL; myself am hell;
And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Help.-God helps them that HELP themselves.

B. FRANKLIN, Poor Richard.

Herbs. Better is a dinner of HERBS where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.- Proverbs, xv. 17.

Herod. It out-herods HEROD.-SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

Heroes. Troops of HEROES undistinguished die.—ADDISON.

Highly.

What thou wouldst HIGHLY,

That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,

And yet wouldst wrongly win. --SHAKESPERE, Macbeth, act i. sc. 4. Hills. Over the HILLS and far away.-GAY, Beggars' Opera.

Hindrance. Something between a HINDRANCE and a help.

WORDSWORTH, Michael.

History. HISTORY, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

GIBBON, Decline and Fall.

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that HISTORY is philosophy teaching by examples, — BOLINGBROKE, On History.

Hobgoblin.-A name formerly given to the merry spirit usually called
Puck, or Robin Goodfellow.

Those that HOBGOBLIN call you, and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck.

SHAKESPERE.

Hob-Nob.-Companionship on easy terms. HOB to warm, and HOB and NOB, as meaning the touching of the top and bottom of the glass in pledging, have been assigned as the origin; but the Shakesperean sense is give or take.

Hobson's Choice.-No alternative. Tobias Hobson was the first man in England that let out hackney horses. When a man came for a horse, he was led into the stable, where there was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood next to the stable door; so that every customer was alike well served according to his chance, from whence it became a proverb, when what ought to be your election was forced upon you, to say "HOBSON'S CHOICE." -Spectator, No. 509.

Hocus Pocus.-Legerdemain. According to Tillotson, this is a corruption of hoc est corpus, as used in the service of the Mass.

Hog.-The fattest HOG in Epicurus' sty.-W. MASON, Heroic Epistle. Holidays. If all the year were playing HOLIDAYS,

To sport would be as tedious as to work.

SHAKESPERE, Henry IV.

Home. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,

As they draw near to their eternal HOME.

E. WALLER, Verses upon his Divine Poesy.

'Tis sweet to hear the watch dog's honest bark
Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near HOME;
"Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when we come.

BYRON, Don Juan.

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like HOME.

J. H. PAYNE, from the opera of Clari.

Our wives are as comely;

And our HOME is still home, be it ever so homely.-C. DIBDIN. Homeless. And HOMELESSs near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

WORDSWORTH, Guilt and Sorrow.

Homer.-Read HOMER once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, so poor;
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

SHEFFIELD, Duke of Buckingham.

Seven cities warr'd for HOMER being dead;
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.

T. HEYWOOD, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.

Seven wealthy towns contend for HOMER dead,

Through which the living Homer begged his bread.-ANON.

Honest. To be HONEST as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.—SHAKESPERE, All's Well.

Honesty.-HONESTY is the best policy.-Don Quixote.
The Nimmer's.

HONESTY is the best policy.

BYRON,

principle is not an honest man.-Archbishop WHATELEY.

HONESTY'S a fool, and loses that it works for.

SHAKESPERE, Othello.

No legacy is so rich as HONESTY.—Ibid., All's Well.

Honey-dew. He on HONEY-DEW hath fed,

And drunk the milk of Paradise.-COLERIDGE, Kubla Khan.

Honour.-HONOUR and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

POPE, Essay on Man.

He that died o' Wednesday.

HONOUR pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: therefore. I'll none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.-SHAKESPERE, King Henry IV.

HONOUR, riches, marriage-blessing,

Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!

Juno sings her blessings on you.-Ibid., Tempest.

If I lose mine HONOUR I lose myself.—Ibid., Antony and Cleo.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man

Holds HONOUR far more precious dear than life.—Ibid., Pericles.
Take HONOUR from me and my life is done.

Ibid., Richard II.

That chastity of HONOUR which felt a stain like a wound.

ED. BURKE.

Hookey Walker.-The popular name of a Londoner, whose real name was John Walker, and who often forms a subject of allusion when the testimony of a person of tried and well-known veracity is impeached.

"John Walker was an out-door clerk at Longman, Clementi, & Co.'s, in Cheapside, where a great number of persons were employed; and 'Old Jack,' who had a crooked or hooked nose, occupied the post of a spy upon their aberrations, which were manifold. Of course it was for the interest of the surveillants [sic] to throw discredit upon all

Jack's reports to the head of the firm; and numbers could attest that those reports were fabrications, however true. Jack, somehow or other, was constantly outvoted, his evidence superseded, and of course disbelieved; and thus his occupation ceased, but not the fame of HOOKEY WALKER.'"-JON BEE (i.e., JOHN BADCOCK).

Hope.-HOPE deferred maketh the heart sick.—Proverbs xiii. 12.

HOPE, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shriek'd-as Kosciusko fell!

THOMAS CAMPBELL, Pleasures of Hope.

HOPE springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

POPE, Essay on Man.
For HOPE is but the dream of those that wake.-PRIOR.
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only HOPE.-SHAKESPERE, Measure for Measure.
HOPE! thou nurse of young desire.-BICKERSTAFF.
HOPE to the end.-1 Peter, i. 13.

HOPE withering fled, and Mercy sighed Farewell!

The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
Still, still on HOPE relies;

And every pang that rends the heart

BYRON, The Corsair.

Bids expectation rise.-GOLDSMITH, The Captivity.

HOPE, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers the way;

And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.—Ibid.

Thus heavenly HOPE is all serene,

But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,

Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,

As false and fleeting as 'tis fair.

HEBER, On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope.

True HOPE is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

SHAKESPERE, Richard III.

Where peace

And rest can never dwell, HOPE never comes,
That comes to all.-MILTON, Paradise Lost.

While there is life there's HOPE, he cried.

GAY, The Sick Man.