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in the shape of the hammers.… From this hint he constructed his musical scale.—Iamblichus: Life of Pythagoras, xxvi.

The same tale is also told of Tubalcain.

Tuball hadde greete lykynge to here the hamers sowne, and he fonde proporcions and acorde of melodye by weyght of the hamers; and so he used them moche in the acorde of melodye, but he was not fynder of the Instrumentes of musyke.—Higden: Polycronycon.

Harmony (Mr.), a general peace-maker. When he found persons at variance, he went to them separately, and told them how highly the other spoke and thought of him or her. If it were man and wife, he would tell the wife how highly her husband esteemed her, and would apply the “oiled feather” in a similar way to the husband. “We all have our faults,” he would say, “and So-and-so knows it, and grieves at his infirmity of temper; but though he contends with you, he praised you to me this morning in the highest terms.” By this means he succeeded in smoothing many a ruffled mind.—Inchbald: Every One has His Fault (1794).

Harness Prize, a prize competed for triennially, on some Shakespearian subject. The prize consists of three years’ accumulated interest of £500. It was founded by the Rev. Mr. Harness, and accepted by the University of Cambridge. The first prize was awarded in 1874.

Harold “the Dauntless,” son of Witikind the Dane. “He was rocked on a buckler, and fed from a blade.” Harold married Eivir, a Danish maid, who had waited on him as a page.—Sir W. Scott: Harold the Dauntless (1817).

Harold (Childe), a man of good birth, lofty bearing, and peerless intellect, who has exhausted by dissipation the pleasures of youth, and travels. Sir Walter Scott calls him “lord Byron in a fancy dress.” In canto i. the childe visits Portugal and Spain (1809); in canto ii., Turkey in Europe (1810); in canto iii., Belgium and Switzerland (1816); in canto iv., Venice, Rome, and Florence (1817).

(Lord Byron was only 21 when he began Childe Harold, and 28 when he finished it.)