Part 14 (1/2)
=Hogg, James.= 1770-1835. Scotch poet. Called ”The Ettrick Shepherd.”
Author of The Queen's Wake, etc. Style diffuse, but graceful and imaginative. _See Collected Works, 1869._
=Holcroft, Thomas.= 1745-1809. Dramatist. Best known by his novel The Marriage of Figaro, and his famous comedy The Road to Ruin. _See Memoirs, edited by Hazlitt, 1816._
=Holinshed, Raphael.= ---- c. 1580. Chronicler. From him Shakespeare drew in part the stories of Cymbeline, Henry VI., Richard II., Richard III., Henry IV., Henry V., Macbeth, Lear, and Henry VIII.
=Holyoake, George Jacob.= 181 Writer on social science. Author of The Logic of Facts, Hist. of Cooperation in England, etc. _Pub.
Lip._
=Home, Henry, Lord Kames.= 1696-1782. Scotch philosopher. Author Elements of Criticism, etc. _See Life, by A. F. Tytler._ _Pub. Por.
Sh._
=Home, John.= 1724-1808. Dramatist. H. wrote the once popular play Douglas, which contains the famous lines, ”My name is Norval,” etc.
_See complete works of, with Life, by Mackenzie, 3 vols., 8vo, Edinburgh, 1822._
=Hone, Wm.= 1779-1842. Satirist. Chiefly known by his compilations; as, The Every-Day Book, The Table-Book, etc.
=Hood, Edwin Paxton.= 182 Biographer. Author Lives of Wordsworth and Swedenborg, The Uses of Biography, etc. _Pub. Arm. Do. Lip._
=Hood, Thomas.= 1798-1845. Poet and humorist. A writer whose fame as a wit has overshadowed his merits as a poet. His style, when not professedly humorous, is tender and graceful. For moral earnestness The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the s.h.i.+rt cannot be surpa.s.sed.
_See E. P. Sargent's edition, Pub. Apl.; also, F. J. Child's edition._ _Pub. Dut. Hon. Por. Put. Rou._
=Hood, Thomas.= 1835-1875. Miscellaneous writer. Son to preceding.
Author of The Rhymster, etc.
=Hook, Theodore Edward.= 1788-1842. A writer of novels of fas.h.i.+on, inartistic in form, but full of humor. His power of extempore verse-making was remarkable. _See Life, by Barham, 1848._ _Pub. Rou._
=Hook, Walter Farquhar.= 1798-1875. Neph. to T. E. H. Author Lives Abps. Cant., Ecclesiastical Biog., Ch. Dict., etc. _See Life and Letters._ _Pub. Dut._
=Hooker, Joseph Dalton.= 181 Botanist. Son to W. J. H. Author Student's Flora British Islands, etc. _Pub. Mac._
=Hooker, Richard.= 1553-1600. Theologian. Author The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The greatest prose writer of the Elizabethan age. _See Keble's edition, 3 vols._ _Pub. Mac._
=Hooker, Sir Wm. Jackson.= 1785-1865. Botanist. Author British Ferns, Garden Ferns, British Flora, etc. _Pub. Put._
=Hope, Alex. James Beresford.= 182 Son to T. H. Author of the Eng. Cathedral in the 19th Cent., Wors.h.i.+p in the Church of England, etc.
=Hope, Thomas.= 1770-1831. Miscellaneous writer. Author Costumes of the Ancients, Household Furniture, etc., and the famous Oriental tale Anastasius. _Pub. Har._
=Horne, George.= 1730-1792. Bp. Norwich. Theologian. Author of a noted Commentary on the Psalms. _Pub. Ca._
=Horne, Richard Hengist.= 180 Dramatic poet. Author Gregory VII., Cosmo de Medici, Ballads and Romances, Orion, etc. A writer of much power, whose circle of readers is undeservedly small. _See Stedman's Victorian Poets._ _Pub. Rob. Rou._
=Horne, Thos. Hartwell.= 1780-1862. Theologian. Best known by his Introduction to the Scriptures. _Pub. Ca._
=Horne-Tooke, John.= 1736-1812. Philologist. Author The Diversions of Purley, etc. _See Memoirs, by Hamilton, 1812, Stephens, 1813, Graham, 1828, N. Y._
=Horner Francis.= 1778-1817. Writer on political economy and one of the founders of the Edinburgh Rev. _See Memoir and Correspondence, 1843._
=Horsley, Samuel.= 1733-1806. Bp. St. Asaph. Theological and controversial writer of note. _See Works of, 6 vols., London, 1845._