Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as
his demesne,
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
919
KEATS: On first looking into Chapman’s
Homer.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead; Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. 920 THOMAS HEYWOOD: Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.
=Honesty.=
An honest man he is, and hates the slime
That sticks on filthy deeds.
921
SHAKS.: Othello, Act v., Sc. 2.
A wit’s a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
922
POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 247.
=Honor.=
Too much honor:
O, ’tis a burthen, ... ’tis a burthen,
Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven.
923
SHAKS.: Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2.
Honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path. 924 SHAKS.: Troil, and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3.
Honor’s a fine imaginary notion,
That draws in raw and unexperienced men
To real mischiefs, while they hunt a shadow.
925
ADDISON: Cato, Act ii., Sc. 5.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 926 POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 193.
His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. 927 TENNYSON: Idyls, Elaine, Line 884.
There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay.
928
WILLIAM COLLINS: Ode in 1746.
=Hood.=
A page of Hood may do a fellow good
After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.
929
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: How Not to Settle It.
=Hope.=
True hope is swift, and flies with swallows’ wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 930 SHAKS.: Richard III., Act v., Sc. 2.
So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost. 931 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 108.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blest.
932
POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 95.
Auspicious hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. 933 CAMPBELL: Pl. of Hope, Pt. i., Line 45.
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.
934
HEBER: On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope.
Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes to all.
935
MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 65.
“All hope abandon, ye who enter
in!”
These words in sombre color I beheld
Written upon the summit of a gate.
936
DANTE: Inferno, Longfellow’s Trans.,
Canto iii., Line 9.


