Chapter Hinzelmann to Hobby-de-Hoy of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Hobbes’s Voyage, a leap in the dark. Thomas Hobbes, on the point of death, said, “Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark” (1588–1679).

‘Tis enough. I’ll not fail. So now I am in for Hobbes’s voyage—a great leap in the dark [this leap was matrimony].—Vanbrugh: The Provoked Wife, v. 3(1697).

Hobbididance , the prince of dumbness, and one of the five fiends that possessed “poor Tom.”—Shakespeare: King Lear, act iv. sc. 1 (1605).

(This name is taken from Harsnett’s Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures, 1561–1631.)

Hobbie o’ Sorbietress, one of the huntsmen near Charlie’s Hope farm.—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

Hobbima (The English), John Crome of Norwich, whose last words were,“O Hobbima, Hobbima, how I do love thee!” (1769–1821).

The Scotch Hobbima, P. Nasmyth (1831–1890)

Minderhout Hobbima, a famous landscape painter of Amsterdam (1638– 1709).

Hobbinol. (See Hobinol.)

Hobbinolia or “Rural Games,” a burlesque poem in blank verse, by William Somerville (1740). Hobbinol was the squire of his village, and had a son, who with Ganderetta were chosen king and queen of May.

Hobbler or Clopinel, Jehan de Meung, the French poet, who was lame (1260–1320). Meung was called by his contemporaries Pére de l’Eloquence.

Tyrtæus, the Greek elegiac poet, was called “Hobbler” because he introduced the alternate pentameter verse, which is one foot shorter than the old heroic metre.

Hobbler (The Rev.Dr.), at Ellieslaw Castle, one of the Jacobite conspirators with the laird of Ellieslaw.—Sir W. Scott: The Black Dwarf (time, Anne).

Hobby-de-Hoy, a lad from 14 to 21.

1–7. The first seven years, bring up as a child;
7–14. The next to learning, for waxing too wild;
14–21. The next, to keep under sir Hobbard de Hoy;
21–28. The next, a man, and no longer a boy.
   —Tusser: Five hundred Points of Good Husbandry, I.(1557).