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DISPLAY.

DISPLAY-DISSENTERS.

Would you, when thieves are known abroad,
Bring forth your treasures in the road?
Would not the fool abet the stealth,
Who rashly thus exposed his wealth?
DISPUTES—see Controversy, Discord.

For when disputes are weary'd out,

Gay Fables.

'Tis interest still resolves the doubt. Butler, Hud. 2. 11. 481.

'Tis strange how some men's tempers suit,

Like bawd and brandy, with dispute,

That for their own opinions stand fast,

Only to have them claw'd and canvass'd. Butler, Hud. 2. 11. 1.

Some say, compared to Bononcini,

That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver that he to Handel

Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.

Strange that all this diff'rence should be

"Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

J. Byrom, On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini. DISSENSION.

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts,
That no dissension hinder government. Sh. Hen. VI. 3. IV. 6.
Debates, dissensions, uproars are the joy;

Provoked without offence, and practised to destroy. Dryden.
Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,

And sorrow but more closely tied ;

That stood the storm, when waves were rough,

Yet in a sunny hour fall off. Moore, Light of the Harem. Dissensions, like small streams at first begun,

Unseen they rise, but gather as they run. Garth, Dis. 111. 184.

DISSENTERS- -see Methodists, Puritans.

So, ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout
Of petulant, capricious sects,
The maggots of corrupted texts,
That first run all religion down,
And, after ev'ry swarm, its own.

Butler, Hud. 3, 11. 7.

A little, round, fat, oily man of God. Thomson, Cast. Ind. 1. 69.

DISSIMULATION-DIVORCE.

DISSIMULATION—see Discretion, Duplicity.

We'll mock the time with fairest show;

Fair face must hide what the false heart does know.

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Sh. Macb. 1. 7.

When my love swears that she is made of truth,

I do believe her, though I know she lies. Sh. Son. cxxxvIII,
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But-why did you kick me down stairs?

Bickerstaff, 'Tis well it's no worse.

Thus 'tis with all-their chief and constant care

Is to seem everything but what they are. Goldsm. Ep. to Sis.

Smooth dissimulation, skill'd to grace.

A devil's purpose with an angel's face.
DISSOLUTION.

Like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.

DISTANCE.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,

Cowper.

Sh. Temp. IV. 1.

And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Campbell, P.H.7. DISTINCTIONS.

There's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war;
A thief and justice, fool and knave,
A huffing officer and a slave;
A crafty lawyer and pick-pocket,
A great philosopher and a blockhead;

A formal preacher and a player,

A learn'd physician and man-slayer. Butler, Hud. 2, 111. 957. DISTRESS.

In this wild world the fondest and the best,
Are the most tried, most troubled, and distrest.

DIVINITY-see Religion, Theology.

In Religion

What damned error but some sober brow

Will bless it and approve it with a text,

Crabbe.

Hiding the grossness with fair ornament. Sh. Mer. V. 111. 2. DIVORCE.

No choice was left his feelings or his pride,
Save death or Doctor's Commons-so he died.

Byron.

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DOCTORS-DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.

DOCTORS-see Medicine, Physic.

By medicines life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too.

Out, ye impostors !

Sh. Cymb. v. 5.

Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks-your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
For men are brought to worse distresses,
By taking physic, than diseases;
And therefore commonly recover,
As soon as doctors give them over.
Wounds by the wider wounds are heal'd,
And poisons by themselves expell'd.

Each proselyte would vote his doctor best,
With absolute exclusion of the rest.

The doctor now obeys the summons,

Likes both his company and commons;
Displays his talents; sits till ten;
Next day invited comes again.

The surest way to health, say what they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be ill ;-
Most of those evils we poor mortals know,
From doctors and imagination flow.

Will kick'd out the doctor: but when ill indeed,
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Massinger.

Butler, Hud.

Butler, Hud.

Dryden.

Swift.

Churchill.

G. Colman Jun. Lodgings for Single Gentlemen.

A doctor lately was a captain made:

It is a change of title, not of trade. Martial (Hay), VIII. 74. DOGS.

Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ;

As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,

Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept

All by the name of dogs: the valued file
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
The housekeeper, the hunter, every one

According to the gift which bounteous nature
Hath in him closed.

I am his Highness's dog at Kew!

Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Sh. Macb. III. 1.

Pope, On the collar of a dog he gave to the Prince.

DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss

Of Paradise that hast survived the fall!

Cowper, Tash, 111.

DOMINION.

DOMINION-DOVER CLIFFS.

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
DOUBT.

Modest doubt is call'd

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Milton, P. L. 1. 261.

The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst.

Sh. Troil. and Cr. II. 2.

Our doubts are traitors,

And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.

Sh. M. for M. 1. 5.

Many with trust, with doubt few are undone.

Ld. Brooke, Mustapha.

Known mischiefs have their cure, but doubts have none;
And better is despair than fruitless hope
Mix'd with a killing fear.

Yet do not think I doubt thee,

I know thy truth remains;
I would not live without thee,
For all the world contains.

Oh! wrath will droop with wearied wing,
And hate will yield to tears;

But doubt destroys the fairest thing-
Creates the spot it fears.

There lives more faith in honest doubt,

May, Cleopatra.

G. P. Morris.

Eliza Cook.

Believe me, than in half the Creeds. Tennyson, In Mem. xcv.

DOVER CLIFFS.

How fearful

And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!

upon

the beach,

The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air
Shew scarce so gross as beetles: half way down
Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade!
Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head:
The fishermen, that walk
Appear like mice: and yon tall anchoring bark
Diminish'd to her cock; her cock a buoy
That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes,
Almost too small for sight: the murmuring surge,
Cannot be heard so high: I'll look no more;
Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight
Topple down headlong.

Sh. Lear, 1v. 6.

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DOVER CLIFFS-DREAMS.

DOVER CLIFFS-continued.

The dreadful summit of the cliff, That beetles o'er his base into the sea, The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain, That looks so many fathoms to the sea, And hears it roar beneath.

DRAMA-DRAMATIC WRITERS.

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give,

For we that live to please, must please to live.

Sh. Ham. I. 4.

Johnson, Prologue (On opening Drury Lane Tk.).

Some force whole regions, in despite

O' geography, to change their site;

Make former times shake hands with latter,

And that which was before, come after. Butler, Hud. 2, 1. 23.

DREAMS.

Dreams are the children of an idle brain,

Begot of nothing but vain fantasy;
Which is as thin of substance as the air;
And more inconstant than the wind.

If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep,

Sh. Rom. 1. 4.

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. Sh. Rom. v. 1.
'Tis still a dream; or else such stuff as madmen
Tongue, and brain out; either both or nothing;
Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such
As sense cannot untie.

Sh. Cymb. V. 4.

Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes:
Compounds a medley of disjointed things,
A mob of cobblers, and a court of kings:
Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad;
Both are the reasonable soul run mad.
Dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and torture, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts;
They take a weight from off our waking toils;
They do divide our being; they become
A portion of ourselves as of our time,
And look like heralds of eternity.
Strange state of being! (for 'tis still to be)
Senseless to feel, and with seal'd eyes to see.
O, spirit land! thou land of dreams!
A world thou art of mysterious gleams,
Of startling voices and sounds of strife,
A world of the dead in the hues of life.

Dryden.

Byron, Dream, 1. 5.

Byron.

Mrs. Hemans.