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Chance. And grasps the skirts of happy CHANCE,
And breasts the blows of circumstance.

Change. All is CHANGE, woe or weal;

Joy is sorrow's brother;

Grief and gladness steal

Symbols of each other:

TENNYSON, In Memoriam.

Ah! welaway!—Ibid., Poems, 1830.

CHANGE amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.-GOETHE.

CHANGE still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.--SPENSER.

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;

But those that write in rhyme still make

The one verse for the other's sake;

For one for sense, and one for rhyme,

I think's sufficient at one time.-BUTLER, Hudibras. Character.-CHARACTER gives splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs.-EMERSON.

Characters.-CHARACTERS never change. Opinions alter,-characters are only developed.-DISRAELI.

Charge." CHARGE, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!"
Were the last words of Marmion. -SCOTT, Marmion.
Charity. Gently to hear, kindly to judge.-SHAKESPERE,

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CHARITY shall cover the multitude of sins.-1 Peter, iv. 8.
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand

Open as day for melting CHARITY.-SHAKESPERE, Henry IV.
Then gently scan your brother man,

Still gentler, sister woman;

Though they may gang a kennin' wrang,

To step aside is human.-BURNS, Address to the Unco' Guid.

Charm. To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native CHARM, than all the gloss of art.

GOLDSMITH, Deserted Village.

Chastity. So dear to heaven is saintly CHASTITY,

That, when a soul is found sincerely so,

A thousand liveried angels lacky her,

Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.—MILTON, Comus.

'Tis CHASTITY, my brother, chastity:

She that has that is clad in complete steel.-Ibid.

Chatterton. I thought of CHATTERTON, the marvellous Boy,
The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride.

WORDSWORTH, Resolution and Independence.

Chaucer.-Dan CHAUCER, well of English undefyled,
On Fame's eternal beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Cheated.-Doubtless the pleasure is as great

SPENSER, Faerie Queene.

Of being CHEATED, as to cheat.-BUTLER, Hudibras.

Cherry Ripe.-CHERRY RIPE, ripe, ripe, I cry,
Full and fair ones,-come and buy;

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If so be you ask me where

They do grow, I answer, there,

Where my Julia's lips do smile,

There's the land, or cherry-isle.-HERRICK, Cherry Ripe.

There is a garden in her face,

Where roses and white lilies grow;

A heavenly paradise is that place,

Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow:

There cherries grow that none may buy

Till CHERRY RIPE themselves do cry.

RICHARD ALLISON, 1606.

Cherub.--There's a sweet little CHERUB that sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.-C. DIBDIN.
Chickens. To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched,
And count their CHICKENS ere they're hatched.

Child.

A simple CHILD,

That lightly draws its breath,

And feels its life in every limb,

BUTLER, Hudibras.

What should it know of death ?—WORDSWORTH, We are Seven.

Behold the CHILD, by nature's kindly law,

Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw:
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite;
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age,
Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before,
Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

POPE, Essay on Man.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd ;
The sports of children satisfy the CHILD.

GOLDSMITH, Traveller.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is

To have a thankless CHILD !-SHAKESPERE, King Lear.
The CHILD is father of the Man.

WORDSWORTH, My Heart Leaps Up.

Childhood.-The CHILDHOOD shows the man

As morning shows the day.-MILTON, Paradise Regained.

Childhood.-O, ever thus, from CHILDHOOD's hour,
I've seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower,
But 'twas the first to fade away.
I never nursed a dear gazelle,

To glad me with its soft black eye,
But when it came to know me well,
And love me, it was sure to die.

MOORE, Fire Worshippers.

Children.-Ah! what would the world be to us,
If the CHILDREN were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.

LONGFELLOW, Children.

As CHILDREN gath'ring pebbles on the shore.

MILTON, Paradise Regained.

CHILDREN like olive plants round about thy table.

Psalm cxxviii. 3.

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Chinaman, John.-A cant or popular name for the Chinese. earliest known instance of its use is in "A Letter to the Committee of Management of Drury Lane Theater, London, 1819." Chivalry.—It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,--glittering like the morning star full of life, and splendour, and joy.

Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS GONE. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.-ED. BURKE, French Revolution.

Christian.-A CHRISTIAN is the highest style of man.

YOUNG, Night Thoughts.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a CHRISTIAN.

POPE, Thoughts on Various Subjects. Christians.-CHRISTIANS have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

BYRON, Don Juan.

Christmas. At CHRISTMAS play, and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.

TUSSER, The Farmer's Diet.

Christmas. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,

The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.

SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

Church.--The CHURCH of England hath a Popish liturgy, a Calvinistic creed, and an Arminian clergy.-Ascribed to PITT.

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To be of no CHURCH is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.--JOHNSON, Life of Milton. Who builds a CHURCH to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

POPE, Moral Essays.

Circumlocution Office.--A designation made use of by Dickens in "Little Dorrit," in ridicule of official delays and indirectness. The CIRCUMLOCUTION OFFICE is described as the chief of "public departments in the art of perceiving how not to do it." The name has come into popular use as a synonym for governmental routine, or "red tape," or a roundabout way of transacting public business.

Whatever was required to be done, the CIRCUMLOCUTION OFFICE was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving how not to do it.--DICKENS, Little Dorrit.

The administrative Reform Association might have worked for ten years, without producing half of the effect which Mr. Dickens has produced in the same direction by flinging out the phrase, "The CIRCUMLOCUTION OFFICE."--MASSON.

Claes.-Gars auld CLAES look amaist as weel's the new.

BURNS, Cotter's Saturday Night.

Classic Ground.-For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around,

And still I seem to tread on CLASSIC GROUND.

ADDISON, Letter from Italy.

Clay. The precious porcelain of human CLAY.-BYRON, Don Juan.

Cleanliness.-Certainly this is a duty, not a sin.
indeed next to godliness."-JOHN WESLEY.

Ev'n from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.-THOMSON.

"CLEANLINESS is

Cliff. As some tall CLIFF, that lifts its awful form,
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,
Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

GOLDSMITH, Deserted Village.

Climb.-Fain would I climb but that I fear to fall.

SIR W. RALEIGH, Written on a pane of glass, in Queen
Elizabeth's presence.

Cloud.-Ham. Do you see yonder CLOUD that's almost in shape of a camel?

Pol. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.

Ham. Methinks it is like a weazel.

Pol. It is back'd like a weazel.

Ham. Or, like a whale ?

Pol. Very like a whale.-SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

Cloud of witnesses.-Hebrews xii. 1.

Cock and Bull Story.-An improbable story. Numerous mistakes were made in interpreting hieroglyphic writings in the middle of the seventeenth century; the figures being so uncouth, and the rendering so unsatisfactory, that in two of the most common illustrations, it was alleged of some translators "they had mistaken a cock for a bull."

Cocker, According to.-Arithmetically correct. COCKER published a treatise on arithmetic, which, notwithstanding its great original popularity, is now obsolete. According to Hoyle," needs no explanation.

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Cockney School, or Cockney Poets.-A name given by some of the English critics to a literary coterie whose productions were said 'to consist of the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth language." In this sect were included Leigh Hunt, Shelley, Keats, and others; and the Quarterly Review (April, 1818) charged the first with aspiring to be the "hierophant" of it.

Coffee.-COFFEE, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

Cogitation. His cogitative faculties immers'd

POPE, Rape of the Lock.

In cogibundity of COGITATION.-HENRY CAREY, Chronon.

Coincidence.-A "strange COINCIDENCE," to use a phrase

By which such things are settled nowadays.-BYRON, Don Juan.

Cold. The COLD in clime are cold in blood,

Their love can scarce deserve the name.—Ibid., The Giaour.

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