Horrors.

And my fell of hair

Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir,
As life were in 't. I have supp'd full with HORRORS.

SHAKESPERE, Macbeth.

Horse.-A HORSE! a horse! My kingdom for a horse!

Ibid., Richard III.

To look a gift HORSE in the mouth.—RABELAIS. BUTLER, Hudibras. Also quoted by ST. JEROME.

Hospitable. So saying, with despatchful looks in haste

She turns, on HOSPITABLE thoughts intent.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Hospitality.-HOSPITALITY grows best where it is most needed.

HUGH MILLER.

Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast.

SHAKESPERE, Comedy of Errors.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.-Hebrews xiii. 2.

Hour. It is the HOUR when from the boughs

The nightingale's high note is heard;

It is the hour when lovers' vows

Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.-BYRON, Parisina.

Some wee short HOUR ayont the twal.

BURNS, Death and Dr. Hornbook.

Hours.-Seven HOURS to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.-SIR W. JONES.

What peaceful HOURS I once enjoyed!

How sweet their memory still!

But they have left an aching void

The world can never fill.-CowPER, Walking with God.

House. A man's HOUSE is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.-SIR E. COKE, Third Institute.

The HOUSE of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. Ibid., Semayne's Case.

Huggins and Muggins.—A jocular embodiment of vulgar pretension.

HUGGINS AND MUGGINS from Chick Lane,

And Clutterbuck, who got a sprain

Before the plug was found.-Rejected Addresses.

Huggins and Muggins.-It has been suggested that these names are a corruption of Hooge en Mogende (high and mighty), words occurring in the style of the States-General of Holland, much ridiculed by English writers of the latter part of the 17th century, as, for example, in the following couplet:

Although we have never felt the least inclination to indulge in conjectural etymology, we cannot refrain, for once, from noticing the curious coincidence between the name of Odin's ravens, Hugin and Munin, Mind and Memory, and those two personages who figure so often in our comic literature as Messrs. HUGGINS AND MUGGINS.-BLACKWELL.

Humanity.

Hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of HUMANITY.

WORDSWORTH, Tintern Abbey.

Humility.-HUMILITY is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.-SELDEN, Table Talk.

Hundredth Psalm.

The musical voice of Priscilla
Singing the HUNDREDTH PSALM, the grand old Puritan anthem;
Music that Luther sang to the sacred words of the psalmist;
Full of the breath of the Lord, consoling and comforting many.
LONGFELLOW, Miles Standish.

Hurt. Rom. Courage man; the HURT cannot be much,

Mer. No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a churchdoor; but 'tis enough.-SHAKESPERE, Romeo and Juliet.

Husband.

She's adorned

Amply that in her HUSBAND's eye looks lovely,—

The truest mirror that an honest wife

Can see her beauty in.-JOHN TOBIN, The Honeymoon.

She who ne'er answers till a HUSBAND cools,
Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules.

POPE, Moral Essays.

Hypocrisy.-HYPOCRISY is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue. ROCHEFOUCAULD.

HYPOCRISY is the necessary burden of villainy.-DR. JOHNSON.

Some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.
SHAKESPERE, Julius Cæsar.

Idle. As IDLE as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean.-COLERIDGE, Ancient Mariner.

Satan finds some mischief still

For IDLE hands to do.-WATTS, Divine Songs.

Idleness.-Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess

The pains and penalties of IDLENESS. —POPE, The Dunciad.

Idler.-An IDLER is a watch that wants both hands;

As useless if it goes as if it stands.-COWPER, Retirement.

If.—Your IF is the only peacemaker; much virtue in if.

SHAKESPERE, As You Like It.

Ignorance. From IGNORANCE our comfort flows;

The only wretched are the wise.—PRIOR, To Montague.

IGNORANCE is the curse of God: knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.—SHAKESPERE, Henry VI.

Where IGNORANCE is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.-GRAY.

Ill got. Things ILL GOT had ever bad success,

And happy always was it for that son

Whose father, for his hoarding, went to hell.

SHAKESPERE, Henry VI.

Imagination. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet

Are of IMAGINATION all compact.-Ibid., Mid. Night's Dream.

O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare IMAGINATION of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow,

By thinking on fantastic summer's heat.

O, no! the apprehension of the good

Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.-Ibid., Richard II.

The lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as IMAGINATION bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.-Ibid., Mid. Night's Dream.

Imitated Humanity.-I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they IMITATED HUMANITY So abominably.—SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

Imitation.-IMITATION is the sincerest flattery.-COLTON, Lacon.
Immortal. Though inland far we be,

Our souls have sight of that IMMORTAL sea

Which brought us hither.—WORDSWORTH, Immortality.

Immortality.-It must be so-Plato, thou reasonest well-
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after IMMORTALITY?

Or whence this secret dread and inward horror
Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us;

"Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,

Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

The wide, th' unbounded prospect, lies before me;
But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Here will I hold. If there's a power above us

(And that there is all nature cries aloud,

Through all her works), he must delight in virtue;
And that which he delights in must be happy.

But when, or where ?-this world was made for Cæsar.
I'm weary of conjectures-this must end 'em!

[Laying his hand on his sword.

Thus am I doubly arm'd; my death and life,
My bane and antidote, are both before me.
This in a moment brings me to an end;
But this informs me I shall never die.
The soul, secure in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years,
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid'st the war of elements,

The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.-ADDISON, Cato.

Impeachment.-I own the soft IMPEACHMENT. (Mrs. Malaprop.)
SHERIDAN, The Rivals.

Inactivity. The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly INACTIVITY.-Sir J. MACKINTOSH.

Inch. Give an INCH, he'll take an ell.-JOHN WEBSTER, Sir Thomas Wyatt. HOBBES, Liberty and Necessity.

Inconstancy.-INCONSTANCY falls off ere it begins.—SHAKESPERE.

Ind. -A poetical contraction for India.

High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of IND.

Satan exalted sat.—MILTON, Paradise Lost.
Indemnity.-INDEMNITY for the past and security for the future.

Independence.-Thy spirit, INDEPENDENCE, let me share;
Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,

Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,

PITT.

Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

SMOLLET, Ode to Independence.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our INDEPENDENCE.— POPE, Letters.

Indolence. Enjoyment stops where INDOLENCE begins.

POLLOK, Course of Time.

The mother of misery.—BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy.

An INFANT crying in the night:

An infant crying for the light:

And with no language but a cry.-TENNYSON, In Memoriam.

Inhumanity.-Man's INHUMANITY to man

Makes countless thousands mourn.

BURNS, Man was made to mourn.

Inn.-Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found

The warmest welcome at an INN.-SHENSTONE.
Innocent.-Oh keep me INNOCENT, make others great!

CAROLINE OF DENMARK,

Innumerable.-INNUMERABLE as the stars of night,
Or stars of morning, dew-drops, which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Intellect. The march of INTELLECT.-SOUTHEY, Colloquies.

The march of INTELLECT, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the Devil.-GOETHE, Correspondence.

Intentions.-Good INTENTIONS are, at least, the seed of good actions; and every man ought to sow them, and leave it to the soil and the seasons whether they come up or no, and whether he or any other gather the fruit.-SIR W. TEMPLE.