littlemore is some village hampden that with dauntless breast meaning.
littlemore is some village hampden that with dauntless breast meaning.
some village hampden that with dauntless breast meaning?
littlemore
outside of britain, the towns of hampden, maryland; hamden, connecticut; hampden, maine; hampden, massachusetts; and hampden, newfoundland and labrador; as well as the county of hampden, massachusetts are named in his honour. hampden–sydney college in virginia is also named in honour of john hampden and of algernon sydney, another english patriot; and mount hampden in zimbabwe.









































thomas gray's poem "elegy written in a country churchyard" refers to the heroism of hampden in the stanza:
john hampden
"some village-hampden, that with dauntless breast / the little tyrant of his fields withstood;/ some mute inglorious milton here may rest, / cromwell guiltless of his country's blood."
john hampden