40 CANKER-CANTANKEROUS CANKER.-Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses. I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace. SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado about Nothing, Act I. Scene 3. (Don John of his Brother.) Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset ? SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VI. Part I. Act II. And but he's something stain'd With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou might'st call him A goodly person. SHAKSPERE.-Tempest, Act I. Scene 2. As killing as the canker to the rose. The canker galls the infants of the spring, SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3. CANNONADE.-E'en the whole world, blockheads and men of letters, Enjoy a cannonade upon their betters. DR. WALCOT.-The Romish Priest, a Tale. Many saints have been canonized who ought to have been cannonaded. COLTON.-Lacon; or, Many Things in a Few CANTANKEROUS.-Well, now, that's mighty provoking! But I hope, Mr Faulkland, as there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantanckerous as to spoil the party by sitting out. SHERIDAN. The Rivals, Act V. Scene 3. [The same word will be found in "The Waterman," by DIBDIN, Act II. Scene 3.] CANVAS-CARVE. CANVAS-LELY on animated canvas stole POPE.-To Augustus, Epi. I. Line 149. CAP.-PET. Why, this was moulded on a porringer; A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap; KATE. I'll have no bigger; this doth fit the time, SHAKSPERE.-Taming the Shrew, Act IV. 41 CAPTIVATE.-Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind, CARCANET.-Say, that I lingered with you at your shop, And that to-morrow you will bring it home. SHAKSPERE.-Comedy of Errors, Act III. Scene 1. In Harrington's Orlando Furioso, we haveAbout his neck a carknet rich he ware. KNIGHT'S SHAKSPERE.-Supra. CARE.-Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 3. I am sure care's an enemy to life. SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act I. Scene 3. Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; DR. WALCOT.-Ode XV. Vol. II. Edition 1794. CARVE.-Ill carve your names on barks of trees, BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part II. Canto I. Line 565. 'Tis hard to carve for others meat, And not have time one's self to eat. Though, be it always understood, Our appetites are full as good. LLOYD. The Author's Apology. CARVE.-Rural carvers, who with knives deface the panels. COWPER.-The Sofa, Line 281. CASE.-1. I know your good nature in a case like this, and 2. State the symptoms of the case, Sir Charles. COLMAN.-The Poor Gentleman, Act I. Scene 2. CAST. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act V. Scene 4. CASTLES-Leaving the wits the spacious air, SWIFT.-Vanbrugh's House. [And see the same idea in his “Duke of Grafton's Answer to Dean Smedley's Petition;' BROOME.-Poverty and Poetry; CHURCHILL.-Night, Epi. to Robert Lloyd; SHENSTONE.-On Taste, Part II.; and LLOYD, Epi. to Colman.] CAT.-Playing the mouse, in absence of the cat. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry V. Act I. Scene 2. When the cat's away, the mice will play. OLD SAYING. CATASTROPHE.-So! so! here's fine work!-here's fine suicide, parricide, and simulation, going on in the fields! and Sir Anthony not to be found to prevent the antistrophe! SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act V. Scene 1. I'll tickle his catastrophe for this. ANONYMOUS.-The Merry Devil of Edmonton. CATCH-Catch as catch can. ATHENEUS-Lib. V. Page 193; a saying of Anti- For why? Because the good old rule That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. WORDSWORTH.-Rob Roy's Grave. CATO. The dawn is overcast, the morning low'rs, The great, th' important day, big with the fate ADDISON.-Cato, Act I. Scene 1. CAVIARE-CHANGE. CAVIARE. Twas caviare to the general. SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. CENSORIOUS.-Be not too rigidly censorious, CENSURE.—But we contemn the fury of these days, Numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. 43 Censure is the tax a many pays to the public for being eminent. ANON.-Spectator, No. ĆI. CHAMBER.-Sitting in my dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-cole fire. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act II. CHANCE.-A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate THOMSON.-Summer. CHANGE.-Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 261. Where yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another? GAY.-Fable III. Line 33. A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. Fear of change Perplexes monarchs. MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book I. No:-Let the eagle change his plume, CAMPBELL.-O'Connor's Child. CHANGE.-Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? JEREMIAH. Chap. XIII. Verse 23. The French and we still change, but here's the curse, Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd: yet we know BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-Prologue to the Noble Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind, POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. I. To Sir R. Temple. How chang'd, alas, from what it once had been! 'Tis now degraded to a public inn. GAY.-A True Story. The hearts Of all his people shall revolt from him, SHAKSPERE.-King John, Act III. Scene 4. CHAOS.-For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, SHAKSPERE.- Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul Chaos is come again. SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act III. Scene 3. But, should he hide his face, th' astonish'd sun, CHAPEL.-Wherever God erects a house of prayer, DE FOE.-The True-born Englishman. |