And, therefore, Fate with royalty must crown
His chosen head.
Southey, Roderick, etc., xxiii. (1814).
Humming-bird. John James Audubon’s story of the Loves of the Hummingbirds reads like romantic fiction rather than fact. The male, when wooing his bride, feeds her with honey, and fans her with his wings while she sips it. After marriage and during incubation, his tender assiduities are redoubled instead of abated. By John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography (1831).
Humorous Lieutenant (The), the chief character and title of a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher (1647). The lieutenant has no name.
Humpback (The). Andrea Sola´ri, the Italian painter, was called Del Gobbo (1470-1527).
Geron´imo Amelunghi was also called Il Gobbo di Pisa (sixteenth century).
Humphrey (Master), the hypothetical compiler of the tale entitled “Barnaby Rudge” in Master Humphrey’s Clock, by Charles Dickens (1840).
Humphrey (Old), pseudonym of George Mogridge.
⁂ George Mogridge has also issued several books under the popular name of “Peter Parley,” which was first assumed by S.G. Goodrich, in 1828. Several publishers of high standing have condescended to palm books on the public under this nom de plume, some written by William Martin, and others by persons wholly unknown.