_Queen Mary._
HERON.
A large water-fowl, with long sharp bill and long legs and toes.
_Happy._
HESPER.
The personification of the evening star.
_Leonine Elegiacs_;
_Mariana in the South_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_.
HESPERIAN.
He smiled, and opening out his milk-white palm
Disclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold,
That smelt ambrosially,
The golden apple that grew in the fabulous garden of Hesperides the
daughter of Hesperus, or Night, in Africa.
_Œnone._
HESPER-PHOSPHOR.
Sweet Hesper-Phosphor, double name
Hesper and Phosphor are two names for the same star, _i.e._ Venus as
she is the evening or the morning star.
_In Memoriam._
HESPERUS.
The personification of the evening-star. The name of a knight--one of
four brothers--who kept the passages of Castle Perilous, where the lady
Lyonors was held a prisoner, and who was overthrown by sir Gareth.
_Leonine Elegiacs_;
_Gareth and Lynette_.
HETAIRAI.
But girls, Hetairai, curious in their art,
Hired animalisms.
A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the females of a
tribe were held in common.
_Lucretius._
HETTY.
Daughter of the village squire, supposed to be weak-minded.
An Hetty wur weak i’ the hattics, wi’out ony harm i’ the legs,
_Village Wife._
HIC JACETS.
The first words on old tombstones--‘_Here lies_.’
_Merlin and Vivien._
HIDALGOS.
Spanish noblemen.
_Columbus._
HIGGINS.
A farm labourer.
_Promise of May._
HILDEBRAND.
Pope Gregory VII, born in Tuscany. His youth was passed at Rome in the
monastery of St. Maria, and afterwards studying at Clugny became famous
as a preacher. Elected pope in 1073; deposed by the emperor Henry IV,
but Gregory retaliated by excommunicating the emperor, and finally
compelled him to do penance. Gregory was however subsequently deposed
in favour of Clement III, in 1080, by Henry, who besieged and captured
Rome, but Gregory was liberated by Robert Guiscard, and retired to
Salerno, where he died.
_Harold._
HILL OF HOPE.
‘Brother,’ she said, ‘let this be call’d henceforth
The Hill of Hope:’
_Lover’s Tale._
HILL OF WOE.
Last we came
To what our people call ‘The Hill of Woe.’
_Lover’s Tale._
HILLS.
A millionaire family.
new-comers in an ancient hold,
New-comers from the Mersey, millionaires,
Here lived the Hills--a Tudor-chimnied bulk
Of mellow brickwork on an isle of bowers.
_Edwin Morris._
HISPANIOLA.
The largest of the West Indian Islands, now known by the name of Hayti,
discovered by Columbus in 1492. In 1697 the island was ceded to France,
but in 1791 after a revolution, the natives swept the island of all
Europeans, and established a republican form of government.
_Columbus._
HO.
they swerved and brake
Flying, and Arthur call’d to stay the brands
That hack’d among the flyers, ‘Ho! they yield!’
A word used by the Heralds to stop fighting in tournaments in mediæval
times.
_Coming of Arthur._
HOLLY.
An evergreen shrub, with hard, prickly leaves and red and yellow
berries.
_The Princess_;
_Spiteful Letter_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Pelleas and Ettarre_;
_Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham_.
HOLLY-HOAK.
A rich luxuriant plant, a favourite in English shrubberies, with a
great variety of colour in its flower.
_The Princess._
HOLLYHOCK.
A kind of mallow, bearing flowers of various colours.
_A Spirit Haunts_;
_Aylmer’s Field_.
HOLMES.
A clergyman present at the house of Francis Allen, on Christmas Eve,
when a conversation on the decay of Christmas customs and the Christian
religion took place between some college-friends assembled round the
wassail-bowl.
_The Epic._
HOLOFERNES.
And, couch’d behind a Judith, underneath
The head of Holofernes peep’d and saw.
The Assyrian general in command of Nebuchadnezzar’s army. As he was
besieging the town of Bethulia, Judith, a Jewish heroine, made her
way into his tent and cutting off his head as he lay asleep, bore
it in triumph to the town. The subject forms part of the apocryphal
book of Judith, but it is not mentioned by Josephus, and is therefore
considered spurious. _Judith_, a poem, the authorship of which is
unknown, gives in some 350 lines the slaughter of Holofernes and
Judith’s summons to the Israelites.
_The Princess._
HOLY CROSS.
_English cries._ Harold and Holy Cross! Out! out!
_See_ =Waltham=.
HOLY ELDERS.
Such times have been not since the light that led
The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh.
Has reference to the Magi who were led to Bethlehem by the Star in the
East where they presented to the new-born Christ their offerings of
gold, frankincense and myrrh. _St. Matthew ii. 11._
_Morte d’Arthur_;
_Passing of Arthur_.
HOLY GRAIL.
The vessel made of emerald stone, said to have been used by Christ at
the last supper, and in which Joseph of Arimathæa caught some of the
blood that flowed from His wounds on Calvary.
The cup, the cup itself from which our Lord
Drank at the last sad supper.
The story is, that after Joseph of Arimathæa had begged the body of
Christ he followed Philip to Gaul as a preacher, and being sent across
the Channel to carry the gospel into Britain, came to Glastonbury in
Somersetshire. He brought with him the dish which was eventually lost,
and the quest of the Grail was undertaken by several knights of the
Round Table. As the Knights were seated at the Round Table at Camelot,
a noise as of thunder was heard and the palace shook, and there came
from the beam a vision of the Holy Grail, covered with white samite and
borne by invisible hands; all the knights heard the noise, but only sir
Galahad the pure was permitted to see it with his bodily eyes, after
which it was borne away to the holy heavens.
The Cathedral of Genoa is supposed to contain the Holy Grail. It is a
shallow basin made of dark green glass, and was for centuries regarded
as an emerald. It was brought to Genoa in 1101 +A.D.+ by Guglielmo
Embriaco, a native of Genoa and a Crusader. Embriaco invented the
movable wooden towers used at the siege and capture of Jerusalem in the
First Crusade.
_Sir Galahad_;
_Holy Grail_.
HOLY LAND.
= Palestine.
_In Memoriam_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Happy_;
_The Foresters_.
HOLY ROOD.
The cross or crucifix fixed over the entrance to the chancel of a
church.
_Harold_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Becket_;
_The Foresters_.
HOLY SEPULCHRE.
whereon I vow’d
That, if our Princes harken’d to my prayer,
Whatever wealth I brought from that new world,
Should, in this old, be consecrate to lead
A new crusade against the Saracen,
And free the Holy Sepulchre from thrall.
The Sepulchre in which the body of Christ was laid.
_Columbus._
HOLY WAR.
The name given to an expedition carried on by Christians against the
Saracens in the Holy Land in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth
centuries.
_Happy._
HOLY WRIT.
= The Scriptures.
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Holy Grail_;
_Queen Mary_;
_The Foresters_.
HOMER.
The great epic poet of Greece, and author of the _Iliad_ and the
_Odyssey_.
_The Princess_;
_On Translations of Homer_;
_Epilogue_;
_Parnassus_.
HOMERIC.
these twelve books of mine
Were faint Homeric echoes, nothing-worth.
Has reference to the poetry of Homer the famous Greek poet.
_The Epic._
HONEYSUCKLE.
A flowering plant with cream-coloured flowers.
_May Queen_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_City Child_.
HONG-KONG.
Clag-cloister; Anatolian Ghost;
Hong-Kong, Karnac, and the rest.
= the three cities.
_To Ulysses._
HONORIUS.
but echo’d on to reach
Honorius, till he heard them, and decreed
That Rome no more should wallow in this old lust
Of Paganism, and make her festal hour
Dark with the blood of man who murder’d man.
Flavius Honorius Augustus, emperor of Rome, second son of Theodosius.
He suppressed the gladiatorial combats practised in Rome. It was during
his reign that the persecution of the pagans began (384-423).
_St. Telemachus._
HOOD (Robin).
_See_ =Robin, Robin Hood=.
HOOPER (John).
Born in Somersetshire in 1518, and became a Cistercian monk at
Gloucester. A study of the writings of Zwingli converted him to the
reformed faith, and in 1550 he was created bishop of Gloucester by
Edward VI, but was imprisoned in the Fleet prison for objecting to wear
the episcopal habit. In 1552 he was made bishop of Worcester. On the
accession of Mary he was committed to the Tower, and after eighteen
months’ imprisonment was tried for heresy, condemned to death, and
burnt at Gloucester, February 9, 1555.
_Queen Mary._
HOP.
A bitter plant, the cones of which are much used in brewing.
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_.
HORACE.
The Roman lyric poet.
_Epilogue_;
_Poets and their Bibliographies_.
HORSELEECH.
_Golden Year._
HORTENSIA.
On the other side
Hortensia spoke against the tax;
In 44 +B.C.+ after the assassination of Julius Cæsar there was formed
in Rome a Commission, called the Commission of Public Safety. This
Commission, having declared war against Brutus (the murderer of Cæsar),
levied a war tax on the wealthy ladies of Rome, but the eloquent
pleading of Hortensia succeeded in the proposed tax being rejected. She
was the daughter of the famous orator Hortensius.
_The Princess._
HOUGOUMONT.
this, indeed, her voice
And meaning, whom the roar of Hougoumont
Left mightiest of all peoples under heaven?
= Battle of Waterloo.
_To the Queen, II._
HOURIS.
Or thronging all one porch of Paradise
A group of Houris bow’d to see
The dying Islamite, with hands and eyes
That said, We wait for thee.
Seventy-two beautiful virgins of paradise, whose companionship,
according to the teaching of the _Koran_, is part of the reward
of every faithful Mohammedan after death. They are possessed with
perpetual youth and beauty.
_Palace of Art_;
_Promise of May_.
HOURS.
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
Three sisters, attendants on the gods.
_Tithonus._
HOWARD (Thomas).
_See_ =Thomas Howard=.
HOWARD (Lord William).
_See_ =William, William Howard=.
HOWL.
= Owl.
_Owd Roä._
HOWLABY BECK.
But I minds when i’ Howlaby beck won daäy ya was ticklin’ o’ trout,
An’ keeäper ’e seed ya an roon’d, an’ ’e beal’d to ya ‘Lad, coom
hout’
_Church-warden and the Curate._
HOWLABY DAÄLE.
An’ ’e kep his heäd hoop like a king, an’ ’e’d niver not fown wi’
’is taäil,
Fur ’e’d niver done nowt to be shaämed on, when we was i’ Howlaby
Daäle.
_Owd Roä._
HUBERT.
Lover of Miriam Erne, only child of the late Miriam Erne. Hubert was
spoken of by Miriam’s father as the fairy prince. On the wedding
morning Miriam asked her father to wish her joy. He replied,
What need to wish when Hubert weds in you
The heart of Love, and you the soul of Truth
In Hubert?
_The Ring._
HUGH.
An old knight who had fought at Agincourt where Henry V defeated the
French in 1415. Walter, son of Walter Vivian, showed to some of his
friends invited to spend the day with them, some of the articles which
adorned his father’s house, and which had been collected from all
quarters of the globe and at all eras of history. And ‘this’ he said,
‘was Hugh’s at Agincourt.’
_The Princess._
HUGH (de Morville).
_See_ =De Morville=.
HUMBER (river).
_Harold._
HUNGARY.
Shall I weep if a Poland fall? shall I shriek if a Hungary fail?
In 1848-9 the Hungarians under Louis Kossuth rebelled against Austrian
rule, but, with the aid of Russia, were reduced to subjection.
_Maud._
HUNTINGDON (Earl of).
_See_ =Robin, Robin Hood=.
HUTTERBY HALL.
I could fettle and clump owd booöts and shoes wi’ the best on ’em
all,
As fer as fro’ Thursby thurn hup to Harmsby and Hutterby Hall.
_Northern Cobbler._
HYACINTH.
A beautiful bulbous-rooted flowering plant of many varieties. The
hyacinth was fabled to have sprung from the blood of Hyakinthos, a
youth killed by Apollo with a quoit.
_Balin and Balan_;
_Guinevere_.
HYADES.
on shore, and when
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea:
A Greek word meaning the ‘rainers’; and a name given to seven stars in
the constellation Taurus; their rising and setting simultaneously with
the sun is believed to be attended with wet weather.
_Ulysses._
HYMEN.
In Greek mythology the god of marriage, son of Apollo; represented
as a boy with wings, and carrying in his hand the marriage torch and
bridal veil. Originally a song sung at a Greek wedding.
Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour,
There dwelt no joy in Eden’s rosy bow’r!
In vain the viewless seraph ling’ring there,
At starry midnight, charm’d the silent air;
In vain, the wild-bird caroll’d on the steep,
To hail the sun, slow-wheeling from the deep;
In vain, to soothe the solitary shade,
Aërial notes in mingling measure play’d;
The summer wind that shook the spangled tree,
The whispering wave, the murmur of the bee;--
Still slowly pass’d the melancholy day,
And still the stranger wist not where to stray.
The world was sad!--the garden was a wild!
And man, the hermit, sigh’d--till Woman smil’d!
Campbell: _Pleasures of Hope, Part II._
_The Cup._
HYPERION.
‘Look where another of our Gods, the Sun,
Apollo, Delius, or of older use
All-seeing Hyperion--what you will--
The name given by the poets to the Sun.
_Lucretius._
IBYCI.
And one an _uxor pauperis Ibyci_.
Has reference to the wife of Ibycus, a Greek lyric poet.
_Becket._
ICELAND.
An island in the North Atlantic Ocean.
_Harold._
ICENIAN.
An ancient British tribe who inhabited the present counties of Norfolk
and Suffolk. Under their queen Boädicea (_q.v._) they rose against the
Romans, destroyed the Roman colonies of Colchester, St. Albans and
London, and slew 70,000 Romans, but were in turn defeated by Suetonius
Paulinus the Roman governor of Britain.
_Boädicea._
IDA.
A mountain range in Asia Minor extending from Phrygia through Mysia
into the Troas. It was the scene of the rape of Ganymede and the
judgment of Paris, and the place from which the gods watched the
battle between the Trojans and the Greeks. Zeus is said to have been
born here, and it possessed a temple in honour of Cybele the Idæan
Mother. The rivers Gramcus, Simois, Scamander and many other smaller
streams have their sources in the mountain, hence Tennyson’s epithet of
_Many-fountain’d Ida_.
_Œnone_;
_Lucretius_;
_Death of Œnone_.
IDA.
Heroine of _The Princess_, betrothed in infancy to prince Arac. On
attaining marriageable age she determined to found a college for women,
and rigidly exclude all men. She was essentially earnest and devoted
to her cause for its own sake, and would undoubtedly have shrunk from
no personal sacrifice which might have promoted the welfare of her
darling purpose. In her position as head of the college she was the
embodiment of majestic dignity, her voice resonant and divine and
formed a striking contrast to some of the subordinate members of her
staff. In founding the college her chief aim was for the betterment of
woman’s position. She thought that the province of woman in the economy
of nature was intellectual eminence.
Knowledge is now no more a fountain seal’d:
Drink deep, until the habits of the slave,
The sins of emptiness, gossip and spite
And slander, die.’
The prince put on woman’s clothing, and was admitted to the college as
a girl student. The prince’s father declared war upon the father of the
princess to enforce the marriage contract, and it was agreed to settle
the quarrel by a combat of fifty warriors on either side; the prince
was beaten and the college was turned into a hospital for the wounded
men, most of the girl graduates being ordered home. The princess
remained to nurse the defeated prince, with the natural consequence
that in tending him she was drawn to love him, abandoned the college,
and married her betrothed.
_The Princess._
IDALIAN.
Idalian Aphroditè beautiful,
Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells,
Idalium, an ancient town in Cyprus. It possessed a temple sacred to
Aphroditè, from which she was sometimes called Idalia.
_Œnone._
IDEN.
And Thomas White will prove this Thomas Wyatt,
And he will prove an Iden to this Cade,
Has reference to Alexander Iden, a Kentish squire who slew Jack Cade
(_q.v._) and brought his head to Henry VI, for which service he was
knighted. Shakespeare in _Second Part of King Henry VI, Act v. Scene
i_, alludes to it:
_King Henry._ The head of Cade! Great God, how just art thou!
O, let me view his visage, being dead,
* * * * *
_King Henry._ How art thou call’d? and what is thy degree?
_Iden._ Alexander Iden, that’s my name;
A poor esquire of Kent, that loves his king.
* * * * *
_King Henry_. Iden, kneel down.
Rise up a knight.
_Queen Mary._
IDRIS.
Himself beyond the rest pushing could move
The chair of Idris.
A mythical Welsh giant, whose rocky chair was on the mount of Cader
Idris in Merionethshire. Tradition says that any one passing the night
in the chair, would, in the morning either be found dead or endowed
with poetical inspiration.
_Marriage of Geraint._
ILIAD.
The great epic poem by Homer.
_Parnassus._
ILION.
but in front
The gorges, opening wide apart, reveal
Troas and Ikon’s column’d citadel,
The crown of Troas.
= The city of Troy, built by the gods Neptune and Apollo, for Laomedon,
the father of Tithonus.
_Œnone_;
_Tithonus_;
_Lucretius_;
_To Virgil_;
_Death of Œnone_.
ILLYRIAN.
Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls
Of water, sheets of summer glass,
The coastlands east of the Adriatic and north of Greece.
_To E. L._
IMMANUEL GOLDSMITHS.
A jeweller, whose shop was ransacked and ‘ower a hoonderd pounds worth
o’ rings stolen.’
_Promise of May._
IND.
and bind with bands
That island queen who sways the floods and lands
From Ind to Ind,
= India.
_Buonaparte_;
_Queen Mary_.
INDIA.
_Milton_;
_A Welcome to Her Royal Highness Marie Alexandrovna,
Duchess of Edinburgh_;
_To the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava_;
_On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria_;
_Defence of Lucknow_.
INDIES.
= West Indies.
_Columbus_;
_Queen Mary_.
INNISKILLENS.
The second squadron of Inniskillings, who, with two squadrons of the
Scots Greys made the famous charge at Balaclava.
_Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava._
INQUISITION DOGS.
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain.
= The Spanish Inquisition established in 1480.
_The Revenge._
IONIAN ARTEMIS.
_See_ =Ephesian Artemis=.
IONIAN FATHER.
And there the Ionian father of the rest;
A million wrinkles carved his skin;
= Homer.
_Palace of Art._
IONIAN HILLS.
There lies a vale in Ida, lovelier
Than all the valleys of Ionian hills.
May probably refer to the neighbouring hills of Mysia.
_Œnone._
IRÂN.
= The Persian empire.
_Akbar’s Dream._
IRELAND.
_Last Tournament_;
_Harold_.
IRIS.
But light-foot Iris brought it yester-eve,
Delivering, that to me,
The daughter of Thaumas and Electra. She was a virgin goddess and a
messenger of the gods, and swift as the breeze with wings of gold. She
was the personification of the rainbow.
_Œnone_;
_Achilles over the Trench_.
IRIS.
A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous roots.
_In Memoriam._
ISABEL.
Revered Isabel, the crown and head,
The stately flower of female fortitude,
Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead.
Has reference to Tennyson’s mother. The poem itself is a description
of her.
_Isabel._
ISCARIOT.
That Pontius and Iscariot by my side
Show’d like fair seraphs.
= Judas, surnamed Iscariot, one of the twelve Apostles, who betrayed
his Master for thirty pieces of silver.
_St. Simeon Stylites_;
_Queen Mary_.
ISIS.
For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil.
An Egyptian goddess and the goddess of procreation and birth, her
symbol being the cow. Her principal temple was at Busiris in the Delta
of the Nile. Several feasts were held in her honour, and there were
also special mysteries of Isis, supposed to have been borrowed from the
Eleusinian mysteries of Demeter.
_Maud._
ISLAMITE.
Or thronging all one porch of Paradise
A group of Houris bow’d to see
The dying Islamite, with hands and eyes
That said, We wait for thee.
= Obedience to God’s Will.
_Palace of Art._
ISLE OF FINN.
Go back to the Isle of Finn and suffer the Past to be Past.’
= Ireland.
_Voyage of Maeldune._
ISLE OF A SAINT.
ISLE OF FIRE.
ISLE OF FLOWERS.
ISLE OF FRUITS.
ISLE OF SHOUTING.
ISLE OF THE DOUBLE TOWERS.
ISLE OF WITCHES.
_See_ =Maeldune=.
ISLE OF WIGHT.
Yet one lay-hearth would give you welcome
(Take it and come) to the Isle of Wight:
An island in the English Channel.
_To Ulysses_;
_To Rev. F. D. Maurice_.
ISLIP.
A town near Oxford.
_Queen Mary._
ISOLT.
According to the Arthurian tradition there were two ladies of this
name, Isolt the Fair, daughter of Anguish, king of Erin, wife of king
Mark (_q.v._) of Cornwall; and Isolt of the ‘White Hands,’ daughter of
Howell, king of Brittany, and the wife of sir Tristram (_q.v._). It is
the latter lady to whom Tennyson refers.
_Last Tournament_;
_Guinevere_.
ISSA BEN MARIAM.
Issa Ben Mariam, his own prophet, cried
‘Love one another, little ones,’ and ‘bless’
Whom? even ‘your persecutors’!
= Jesus, the son of Mary, founder of the Christian religion.
_Akbar’s Dream._
ISSUS.
when her Satrap bled
At Issus by the Syrian gates,
A Cilician town, famous for the victory which Alexander the Great
obtained over Darius, 333 +B.C.+
_Alexander._
ITALY.
_The Brook_;
_The Daisy_;
_To Dante_;
_Queen Mary_.
ITHACENSIAN SUITORS.
I ceased, and all the ladies, each at each
Like the Ithacensian suitors in old time,
Stared with great eyes, and laugh’d with alien lips,
Has reference to Penelope, wife of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, who,
during the latter’s absence in the Trojan war, was beset by numerous
suitors, assuming that Odysseus had perished in the war. Eventually,
through the good offices of Pallas Athene, Odysseus returned, and
relieved her of her perplexity.
_The Princess._
IVIN’.
= Ivy.
_Owd Roä_;
_Church-warden and the Curate_.
IVY.
A plant of the genus _Hedera_, with dark smooth evergreen leaves. The
stem clings to walls and trees.
_Œnone_;
_Lotos-Eaters_;
_Day-Dream_;
_The Brook_;
_Spiteful Letter_;
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Harold_;
_The Foresters_.
IXION-LIKE.
Shadows thou dost strike,
Embracing cloud, Ixion-like;
Ixion was the king of the Lapithæ, who attempted to win the love of
Juno, but Jupiter substituted a cloud of her instead, whereby he became
the father of the Centaurs, and whom Jupiter punished by fastening him
to an eternally revolving wheel in hell.
_Two Voices._
JACHIN.
A brass pillar, signifying stability, at the entrance to Solomon’s
temple. _1 Kings vii. 21._
I have built the Lord a house--sing, Asaph! clash
The cymbal, Heman! blow the trumpet, priest!
Fall, cloud, and fill the house--lo! my two pillars,
Jachin and Boaz!--
_Harold._
JACK.
The man employed by a farmer named Jocky Dawes to remove his household
belongings from the farm as the house was supposed to be haunted.
_Walking to the Mail._
JACK.
And Jack on his ale-house bench has as many lies as a Czar;
_See_ =Czar=.
_Maud._
JACKSON.
A labourer to farmer Dobson.
_Promise of May._
JACOBINISM--JACQUERIE.
After madness, after massacre, Jacobinism and Jacquerie.
_Jacobinism._ The policy of the Jacobite faction opposite to legitimate
government. _Jacquerie._ A name given to the French peasants who rose
in revolt against the nobles during the absence of king John II of
France as a prisoner in England in 1358, the leader of whom assumed the
name of Jacques Bonhomme.
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._
JAEL.
And highest, among the statues, statue-like,
Between a cymbal’d Miriam and a Jael,
A Jewish heroine, wife of Heber the Kenite, who slew Sisera the captain
of the host of the Canaanites, who after being defeated by Deborah and
Balak near the brook Kishon, fled and took refuge in her tent. _See
Judges iv._
_The Princess._
JAMES.
A friend of the poet Leonard, also spending a holiday in Llanberis. He
had listened to the lines written by Leonard concerning the Golden Age,
and added all in heat,
‘What stuff is this!
Old writers push’d the happy season back,--
The more fools they--we forward: dreamers both:
He declares:
That unto him who works, and feels he works,
This same grand year is ever at the doors.’
_Golden Year._
JAMES.
We flung the burthen of the second James.
= We got rid of James II, declared the throne vacant, and resisted him
by force of arms.
_Third of February._
JAMES.