90 DOUBT-DREAMERS. DOUBT.-Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it, SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act III. Scene 3. DOUBTLESS.-Doubtless the pleasure is as great BUTLER —Hudibras, Part II. Canto III. DOUBTS.-O, what damned minutes tells he o'er, (Iago to Othello, warning him against Jealousy.) And make us lose the good we oft might win, SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act I. DOVE.-The dove returning bore the mark DRYDEN.-To Her Grace of Ormond, Line 70. The dove was twice employ'd abroad, before DOVE-COTE.-Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Alone, I did it. SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act V. Scene 5. DOWN-He that is down needs fear no fall; BUNYAN.-Pilgrim's Progress, Part II. DREAM.-If ever I did dream of such a matter, abhor me. SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act I. Scene 1. (Iago to Roderigo.) DREAMERS.-1. Dreamers often lie. 2. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. 1. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 4. (Mercutio and Romeo.) DREAMERS.-And mourn, in lamentation deep, BURNS.-The Lament, Verse 1. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act IV. Scene 1. Like the dreams, Children of night, of indigestion bred. CHURCHILL.-The Candidate, Line 784. But if, as morning rises, dreams are true. DANTE.-Inferno, Canto XXVI. Line 7. A vision after midnight, when dreams are true. HORACE.-Book I. Sat. X. Page 179. Bohn's Ed. by Buckley. Towards dawn, the lamp now flickering, (at the time when true visions are wont to be seen.) OVID.-Epi. XIX, page 219. Bohn's Ed. by Riley. Like the dream That o'ertook me at my waking hour, This morn; and dreams they say are then divine. DRYDEN.-Don Sebastian, Act IV. Scene 1. At break of day, when dreams, they say, are true. DRYDEN.-The Spanish Friar, Act III. Scene 2. And though it be a waking dream, Yet let it like an odour rise: To all the senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music in their ear. BEN JONSON.-The Vision of Delight. DREAMS.-Dreams in their development have breath, BYRON.-The Dream, Line 5. Led by those waking Dreams of Thought, LANGHORNE.-Owen of Carron, Verse 19. DRESS. She bears a duke's revenues on her back. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VI. Part II. Act I. O, many Have broke their backs with laying manors on them SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 1. To bear them The back is sacrifice to the load. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 2. (Katherine to Wolsey.) Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires, Where peace and hospitality might reign. COWPER.-The Task, Book II. Line 614. Here's such a plague every morning, with buckling shoes, gartering, combing, and powdering. FARQUHAR.-The Twin Rivals, Act I. DRINK.-Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. BEN JONSON.-To Celia. The Forest. This song is taken from a collection of love-letters written by Philostratus, an ancient Greek sophist. Drink boldly, and spare not. URQUHART'S RABELAIS.-Chap. XXXIV. Which would throw me there, if I keep the round. GEORGE HERBERT.-The Temple, Stanza 5. Drink to day, and drown all sorrow; You shall not do it to-morrow: Best while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Bloody Brother, Act II. Scene 2. DRINK.-I see by thy eyes thou hast been reading a little Geneva print. ANONYMOUS.-The Merry Devil of Edmonton. Potations pottle deep. SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act II. Scene 3. (Iago's plot against Cassio.) DRINKING.-Not to-night-I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. I have drunk but one cup to-night, and-behold what innovation it makes here: I am unfortunate in the infirmity, and dare not task my weakness with any more. SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act II. Scene 3. Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil. If we do not drink to his cost, we shall die in his debt. I drank: I liked it not: 'twas rage, 'twas noise, An airy scene of transitory joys. In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow and enlarge the soul. PRIOR.-Solomon, a Poem, Book II. Line 106. And in the flowers that wreath the sparkling bowl, PRIOR. Ibid. Line 140. [See a pleasant piece of exaggeration, wherein the drunken person imagines himself on board a vessel, and in danger of shipwreck.] HEYWOOD.-The English Traveller. Lamb's DROP-A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. PROVERBS. Chap. XXVII. Verse 15. From the frequent drop, ever falling, even the stone is bored into a hollow. BANKS' Bion.-Idyl XI. Page 176. Much rain wears the marble. SHAKSPERE. King Henry VI. Part III. Act III. DROWSY.-When love speaks, the voice of all the gods SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV. DRUNK.-We faren as he that drunk is as a mouse; CHAUCER.-By Saunders, Vol. I. Page 24. Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then. He that is drunken may his mother kill The drunkard forfeits Man, and doth divest GEORGE HERBERT-The Temple, Stanza 6. Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it. PRIOR.-Ballad on taking Namur. DUDGEON.-When civil dudgeon first grew high, When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 1. DULNESS.-Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move, As things seem large which we through mists descry, POPE.-On Criticism, Line 390. Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke; And gentle dulness ever loves a joke. POPE.-The Dunciad, Book II. Line 33. DUNGEON-He that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon. MILTON.-Comus, Line 383. DUST.-A heap of dust alone remains of thee, "Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. POPE.-To the Memory of a Lady. |