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CONTENT-CONVERSE.

CONTENT.-Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

DRYDEN.-29th Ode, Horace, Book III. Verse 8.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be

content.

PHILIPPIANS.-Chap. IV. Verse 11.

Mecenas, what's the cause, that no man lives
Contented with the lot which reason gives,
Or chance presents; yet all with envy view
The schemes that others variously pursue?

FRANCIS' HORACE.-Book I. Sat. I.

Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot, or not, to be content with all.

HERRICK.-Hesperides, Aphorisms, No. 215.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

LE SAGE.-Gil Blas, Book VII. Chap. 13.

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down;
Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

HEYWOOD.-A Woman Kill'd with Kindness.

CONTENTIONS.-Contentions fierce,

Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

SCOTT.-Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XL. quoting "Albion."

In this contention, it is difficult to say which party succeeded.
FIELDING. Joseph Andrews.

CONTEST.-Between nose and eyes, a strange contest arose,
The spectacles set them unhappily wrong;
The point in dispute was, as all the world knows,
To which the said spectacles ought to belong.

COWPER.-Report of an Adjudged Case.

CONTRITE.-Prostrate my contrite heart I rend:
My God, my Father, and my Friend!

Do not forsake me in my end!

ROSCOMMON.-Day of Judgment, Verse 17.

CONVERSE-Studious let me sit,

And hold high converse with the mighty dead.
THOMSON.-Winter, Line 431.

CONVERSE.-In days of yore when time was young,
When birds convers'd as well as sung,

When use of speech was not confin'd

Merely to brutes of human kind.

LLOYD.-Hare and Tortoise.

CONVERSING.-With thee conversing I forget the way. GAY.-Trivia, Book II. Line 480.

With thee conversing I forget all time.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 639.

While we converse with her, we mark

No want of day, nor think it dark.

WALLER.-The Night Piece.

COOKS.-Are these the choice dishes the doctor has sent us?
Is this the great poet whose works so content us?

This Goldsmith's fine feast, who has written fine books?
Heaven sends us good meat-but the Devil sends cooks.
GARRICK.-On Goldsmith's "Retaliation."

COPY.-You are the cruell'st she alive,

If you will lead these graces to the grave,

And leave the world no copy.

SHAKSPERE.

Twelfth Night, Act I. Scene 5.

(Viola to Olivia.)

CORINTH.—It is not every man's lot to gain Corinth.
SMART'S HORACE.-Book I. Epi. 17.

CORK. The cork shall start obsequious to my thumb.
SCOTT.-Peveril of the Peak, Chap. 22.

CORNISH MEN.-By Pol, Tre, and Pen,
You may know the Cornish men.

SCOTT.-Kenilworth, Chap. I.

CORPORAL. The Corporal.-Tread lightly on his ashes, ye men of genius-for he was your kinsman: weed his grave clean, ye men of goodness-for he was your brother. Oh Corporal! had I thee but now-now that I am able to give thee a dinner and protection-how would I cherish thee! But alas! alas! alas! now that I can do this, the occasion is lost for thou art gone; thy genius fled up to the stars, from whence it came; and that warm heart of thine, with all its generous and open vessels, compressed into a clod of the valley!

STERNE.-Tristram Shandy, Vol. VI. Chap. 25.

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CORSAIR-COURAGE.

CORSAIR.-He left a Corsair's name to other times,
Link'd with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.

BYRON.-The Corsair, Canto III. Stanza 24.

COT-COTTAGE-COTTAR.-At night returning, every

labour sped,

He sits him down the monarch of a shed;
Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
His children's looks that brighten at the blaze;
While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
Displays her cleanly platter on the board,

GOLDSMITH.-The Traveller.

An' makes him quite forget his labour and his toil.

BURNS. The Cottar's Saturday Night, Verse 3.

The little smiling cottage, warm embower'd;
The little smiling cottage, where at eve

He meets his rosy children at the door,
Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife,
With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent
To cheer his hunger after labour hard.

COUNCIL.

DYER.-The Fleece, Book I.

Want of judgment, Drollio;

An unlearned council,-I ever told you so,—

Never more heads nor ever less wit, believe it.

SUCKLING. The Sad One, Act III. Scene 2.

COUNTENANCE.-A countenance more in sorrow than in

anger.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2.
(Horatio to Hamlet.)

COUNTRY.—It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country.
HORACE. Book III. Ode II.; and see CICERO in

the Tusculan Disputations; BEN JONSON in the play of Catiline, Act III. Scene 2; and BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, in the Faithful Friends, Act II. Scene 3.

COURAGE.-Remember now, when you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but, at the same time, as polished, as your sword.

SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act III. Scene 4.

Courage never to submit or yield.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 108.

COURAGE.-Courage mounteth with occasion. SHAKSPERE.-King John, Act II. Scene 1. (Austria to King Philip.)

COURT-1. Wast ever in court, shepherd?

2. No, truly.

1. Then thou art d-d. Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd. SHAKSPERE.-As You Like It, Act III. Scene 2. (Touchstone to Corin.)

I will make a star-chamber matter of it.

SHAKSPERE.-Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I.
Scene 1. (Shallow to Sir Hugh Evans.)

There is a court above, of the star chamber,
To punish routs and riots.

BEN JONSON.-Magnetic Lady, Act III. Scene 4.
Knight's Note.

COURTESY.-I am the very pink of courtesy.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 4. (Mercutio to Romeo.)

COUSIN.-His master and he are scarce cater-cousins. SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act II. Scene 2. (Gobbo to Launcelot.)

COWARD.-Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?

SCOTT.-Marmion, Canto IV. Stanza 30.

Cowardice

Hath made us by-words to our enemies.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VI. Part III. Act I.
Scene 1. (Warwick to Plantagenet, Duke of
York.)

Yon trembling coward, who forsook his master.
HOME.-Douglas, Act II. Scene 1.

COWARDS.-Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

SHAKSPERE. Julius Cæsar, Act II. Scene 2.
(Cæsar to Calphurnia.)

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COWARDS.

COWARDS-CRADLED.

A plague of all cowards!

Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant? You rogue, here's lime in this sack too. There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man: yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act II.
Scene 4. (Falstaff to Prince Henry.)

COWLEY.-He more had pleas'd us, had he pleas'd us less.
ADDISON.-An Account of English Poets.

CRADLE.-All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave, is uncertain.

SENECA. Of a Happy Life, Chap. XXII.

CRADLE TO THE GRAVE.-From the maternal tomb,
To the grave's faithful womb.

COWLEY.-Life.

From the cradle to the tomb,
Not all gladness, not all gloom.
ANONYMOUS.

To the coffin, from the cradle.

PRIOR.-Moral to "The Ladle."

Hard-travell'd from the cradle to the grave.
YOUNG.-Night VI. Line 221.

A little rule, a little sway,
A sun-beam in a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.

DYER.-Grongar Hill, Line 89.

The hearts within thy valleys bred,
The fiery souls that might have led
Thy sons to deeds sublime,
Now crawl from cradle to the grave,
Slaves-nay the bondmen of a slave,
And callous, save to crime.

BYRON.-The Giaour.

CRADLED.-Most wretched men
Are cradled into poverty by wrong.

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
SHELLEY.-Julian and Maddalo.

Scourged by the winds, and cradled on the rock.

CAMPBELL.-The Pleasures of Hope, Part I.