Chapter Hero and Leander to Hibernia of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Herschel (Sir F. Wm.) discovered the eighth planet, at first called the Georgium sidus, in honour of George III., but now called Urdnus. In allusion to this, Campbell says he

Gave the Iyre of heaven another string.
   —Pleasures of Hope, i. (1799).

Herswin (Dame), wife of Isengrin, the wolf, in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox, by Heinrich von Alkmaar (1498).

Herta, now called St. Kilda, one of the Heb’ridês.

Hertford (The marquis of), in the court of Charles II.—Sir W. Scott: Woodstock (time, Commonwealth).

“Hertford” called Har’-ford

Her Trippa, meant for Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim, philosopher and physician. “Her” is a contraction of He’ricus, and “Trippa” a play on the words Agrippa and tripe.—Rabelais: Pantag’ruel, iii. 25 (1545).

Hervé Riel, a Breton sailor, who saved the French squadron when beaten at Cape la Hogue and flying before the English, by piloting it into the harbour of St. Malo (May 31, 1692). He was so unconscious of the service he had rendered, that, when desired to name his reward, he begged for a whole day’s holiday to see his wife. He lived at Le Croisic. Browning has a poem called Hervé Riel (1867).

Herwig, king of Heligoland, betrothed to Gudrun, daughter of king Hettel (Attila>). (See Gudrun, p. 454.)

Her’zog (Duke), commander-in-chief of the ancient Teutons (Germans). The herzog was elected by the freemen of the tribe; but in times of war and danger, when several tribes united, the princes selected a leader, who was also called a “herzog,”similar to the Gaulish “brennus”or “bren,” and the Celtic “pendragon” or head

Heskett (Ralph), landlord of the village ale-house where Robin Oig and Harry Wakefield fought.

Dame Heskett, Ralph’s wife.—Sir W.Scott: The Two Drovers (time, George III.).

Hesperia. Italy was so called by the Greeks, because it was to them the “Western Land.” The Romans, for a similar reason, transferred the name to Spain.

Hesperidêes , the women who guarded the golden apples which Earth gave to Herê (Juno) at her marriage with Zeus (Jove). They were assisted by the dragon Ladon. The orchards in which the golden apples grew were the Hesperian Fields. The island is one of the Cape Verd Isles, in the Atlantic.

Wilt thou fly
With laughing Autumn to the Atlantic isles,
And range with him th’Hesperian fields, and see
Where’er his fingers touch the fruitful grove,
The branches shoot with gold?
   —Akenside: Pleasures of Imagination, i.(1744)

Hesperus, the knight called by Tennyson “Evening Star;” but called in the History of Prince Arthur, “the Green Knight” or sir Pertolope . One of the four brothers who kept the passages of Castle Perilous.—Tennyson: Idylls (“Gareth and Lynette”): sir T.Malory: History of Prince Arthur, i. 127 (1470).
N.B.—It is a manifest blunder to call the Green Knight “Hesperus the Evening Star,” and the Blue Knight the “Morning Star.” The old romance makes the combat with the “Green Knight” at dawn, and with the “Blue Knight” at sunset. The error has arisen from not bearing in mind that our forefathers began the day with the preceding eve, and ended it at sunset. Malory calls the lady Linet.

Hesperus (The Wreck of the), a ballad by Longfellow (1842).