Question: some village hampden that with dauntless breast meaning
Answer: Thomas Gray 's poem `` Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard '' refers to the heroism of Hampden in the stanza : `` 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 .