There dwelt no joy in Eden’s rosy bower...
The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man, the hermit, sighed—till woman smiled.
Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, ii. (1799).
Hyndman (Master), usher to the council-chamber at Holyrood.—Sir W. Scott, The Abbott (time, Elizabeth).
Hypatia. Beautiful and learned pagan, whose school of philosophy was celebrated in Alexandria in 415 A. D. She was torn to pieces in a church by a Christian mob, in the flower of her youth and beauty.—Charles Kingsley, Hypatia (1853).
Hyperi´on, the sun. His parents were Cælum and Tellus (heaven and earth). Strictly speaking, he was the father of the sun, but Homer uses the word for the sun itself.
When the might
Of Hyperi´on from his noon-tide throne
Unbends their languid pinions [i.e. of the winds].