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Rump Parliament, iii. 487.
HEART of a lover, story of, i. 233, 234.
HEAVY hours of literary men, i. 392.
HELL, Purgatory, and Heaven, topographical descriptions of, i. 202;
treatises on, 204, 205.
HEMON DE LA FOSSE, a modern Polytheist, executed in 1503, i. 216.
HENRIETTA, queen of Charles I., her character, ii. 337; anecdote
illustrative of, ib.; after the Restoration, 338; various
descriptions of her person, ib.; her contract with the Pope, 339;
account of her journey to England on her marriage, 340; her French
establishment, 341; anecdote of her confessor's conduct, 342; the
dismissal of her French attendants, 345; the amount of her supposed
influence over her husband, 348.
HENRY the Seventh, anecdote of, ii. 10.
HENRY the Eighth, anecdote of, ii. 10; his proclamation against
reading the Bible in English, iii. 373, note.
HENRY, prince, son of James I., anecdote of, iii. 186-194.
HENRY, the English historian, loose and general in his references,
ii. 418.
HERETICS, a classification of, i. 350.
HERMIPPUS REDIVIVUS, a curious jeu-d'-esprit, i. 320.
HEYLIN, a popular writer, died in 1662, iii. 215; his rival
biographers, 216-221; his History of the Puritans and Presbyterians,
239.
HIGH SHERIFF'S Oath, exceptions taken to, by Sir Edward Coke, iii.
446.
HISTORY, of events which have not happened, a good title for a
curious book, ii. 428; speculative history of the battle of
Worcester, had it terminated differently, 429; a history of this
kind in Livy, ib.; subjects for, 430-438.
HISTORY of New Words.--See NEOLOGY. Of suppressed opinion, iii.
150-163; of writing masters, 167-177.
HISTORIANS, remarks on the infidelities of, i. 191; Italian,
commended, iii. 177; notices of the most celebrated, 180-186; wrote
for posterity, 182, 183; fate of Giannone, who published in his
life-time, 185; observations on, 186.
HOLYDAY, Barton, author of the comedy "The Marriage of the Arts,"
ii. 43.
HOME, the author of the tragedy of "Douglas," persecuted for
composing it, i. 197.
HOMER, notice of his detractors, i. 24; profound knowledge of
history, geography, arts, sciences, and surgery ascribed to, 303.
HUDIBRAS, attacks upon Butler, the author of, ii. 491; various
accounts of the original of the character, 492; indecency avoided
in, 493; epitaph on the au
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