Hierocles, a neo-Platonic philosopher (c. 450 A.D.), who after long
labour collected a book of twenty-eight jests, a translation of which
(Gentleman’s Magazine, 1741) has been attributed to Johnson
Hill, Aaron, playwright, stage-manager, and projector of bubble schemes
(1685-1750). See Pope’s Dunciad, ii. 295 ff.
Hippocrene, “the fountain of the Muses, formed by the hoof of Pegasus”
Holbach, Baron, a French “philosophe” who entertained at his hospitable
board in Paris all the Encyclopaedia (q.v.) writers; a materialist, but
a philanthropist (1723-89)