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A beautiful girl of Sestos, greatly beloved by Leander , a youth of Abydos . The lovers were greatly attached to each other, and often in the night Leander swam across the Hellespont to Hero in Sestus, till on one tempestuous night he was drowned, and Hero in despair threw herself into the sea and perished.
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in Grecian legend, a maiden and her lover whose names are always mentioned together. Hero lived in the town of Lesbos, on the Thracian coast, and was a priestess of Aphrodite. Leander lived in Abydos on the coast of Asia. Since Hero was a priestess her parents regarded her lover with disfavor. Every night Leander swam the Hellespont to visit Hero, who placed a light in a high tower to guide him as he swam across the strait. One stormy night the light went out. Leander was drowned. Hero looking from the tower saw his dead body as the waves rolled it to the shore. She cast herself from the tower in despair and perished in the sea. It was at one time regarded as impossible for a man to swim the Hellespont, but Lord Byron proved it possible by doing it himself. He has told the story of Hero and Leander in the Bride of Abydos. Schiller, Moore, and other poets have made use of this story in their writings. The night-wind is moaning with mournful sigh, There gleameth no moon in the misty sky, No star over Helle's sea; Yet, yet there is shining one holy light, One love-kindled star through the deep of night, To lead me, sweet Hero, to thee. --Moore.
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son of Herod the Great, by his fifth wife, Cleopatra, was appointed tetrarch of Galilee on his death (4 b. c.). This was the Herod who put to death St. John the Baptist, in compliment to his wife Herodias in revenge for his reproaches of their incestuous union. Having visited Rome he was accused of having been concerned in the conspiracy of Sejanus, and was stripped of his dominions, and sent (A. D. 39) with his wife into exile at Lugdunum (Lyons), or, as some say, to Spain, where he died. granddaughter of
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Surnamed "the Great," followed the fortunes of Brutus and Cassius, and afterward those of Antony. He was made king of Judaea by the aid of Antony, and after the battle of Actium he was continued in power by submission to and flattery of Augustus. He rendered himself odious by his cruelty, and, as he knew his death would be a cause for rejoicing, he ordered a number of the most illustrious of his subjects to be confined and murdered directly he expired, that there might appear to be grief and shedding of tears for his own death. Herod died in the seventieth year of his age, after a reign of forty years.
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a Herod the Great and Mariamne, daughter of Aristobulus and sister of Herod Agrippa I. She was first married to her uncle Herod Philip, but afterward abandoned him and connected herself with his brother Herod Antipas. It was by her artifice that Herod was persuaded to cause to be put to death John the Baptist, who had boldly denounced the incestuous connection which subsisted be tween her and Herod.
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The, in classical mythology, one of the five periods into which the history of the earth was divided. The heroic was the fourth age according to Hesiod. It covered the period during which the heroes who fought at Troy and Thebes lived. Ovid omits this age entirely. The term is often used to denote the legendary or prehistoric period of ancient nations. See Hesiod
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Robert (1591-1674), an English poet and clergyman. He was born in London and received his education at Cambridge. He studied law, but later entered the church and received the living of Dean Prior, Devonshire. He began to write poems when a young man, but the first collected edition was published in 1648 under the title Hesperides. For many years his poems suffered an undeserved neglect, but interest in them revived in the latter part of the eighteenth century. As a writer of pastoral lyrics Herrick has never been excelled by any English author. He wrote about 1,300 poems, every one short, some of them of little or no value, but among them many beautiful songs, exquisite in finish. He has been compared to Anacreon, and the work of the American poet, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, has been said to resemble that of Herrick. You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
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HANS, a German Poet, dramatist, and editor; born in Brunswick, Dec. 10, 1845. He abandoned law for literature and journalism, joining the staff of the "Deutsches Tageblatt" when it started. His plays were numerous and successful, notably "Alexander the Great"; "Jerusalem"; "Nero"; and others serious in in subject. His greatest success was with the "church play" arranged and written for the Luther Jubilee of 1883, and widely performed. His poetry includes both the light and serious, "The Fat King" among the former and "The Swine" among the latter. He died in Weimar, May 4, 1892.
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a city of Illinois in Williamson co., on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Illinois Central, and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroads. It is the center of an important coal mining region and has industries which include machine shops, a a powder plant. Pop. foundry, and (1910) 6,861; (1920) 10,986.
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a town in the kingdom of Saxony, 18 miles S. E. of Bautzen; celebrated as a chief seat of the MORAVIANS (q. v.) or Herrnhuters, who settled here in 1722.
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non-luminous rays outside the red of the solar spectrum; they were first discovered by Sir William Herschel. HERSCHELITE (named after Sir John Herschel), an orthorhombic, colorless or white translucent mineral of somewhat vitreous luster optically biaxial. Found at Acireale in Sicily.
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