ntercourse.-Speed the soft INTERCOURSE from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.-POPE, Eloisa. Iron.-Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold IRON!-BUTLER, Hudibras. IRON sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.-Proverbs xxvii. 17. IRON Sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air.-GRAY, The Fatal Sisters. The IRON entered into his soul.-Psalm cv., 18.-STERNE, Sentimental Journey. Iron Duke.--A familiar title given to the Duke of Wellington. According to the Rev. G. R. Gleig, this sobriquet arose out of the building of an iron steamboat, which plied between Liverpool and Dublin, and which its owners called the "Duke of Wellington." The term IRON DUKE was first applied to the vessel; and by-andby, rather in jest than in earnest, it was transferred to the Duke himself. It had no reference whatever, at the outset, to any peculiarities or assumed peculiarities, in his disposition; though, from the popular belief that he never entertained a generous feeling toward the masses, it is sometimes understood as a figu ative allusion to his supposed hostility to the interests of the lower orders. Ironsides. A name given to the English soldiers who served under Cromwell at Marston Moor, on account of the great victory they there gained over the royalist forces, a victory which gave them a world-wide renown for invincible courage and determination. Island. O, it's a snug little ISLAND! A right little, tight little island!-THOS. DIBDIN. Ivy. Oh, a dainty plant is the IVY green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.-DICKENS, Pickwick. J. Jack-in-the-Green.-A character-a puppet-in the May-day games of England. Dr. Owen Pugh says that JACK-IN-THE-GREEN, on May-day, was once a pageant representing Melva, or Melvas, king of the county now called Somersetshire, disguised in green boughs, as he lay in ambush to steal King Arthur's wife, as she went out hunting. Jack-in-the-Green.- Yesterday, being May-day, the more secluded parts of the metropolis were visited by JACK-IN-THE-GREEN, and the usual group of grotesque attendants.-Times, 1844. Are to the JEALOUS confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.-SHAKESPERE, Othello. Jealousy. Nor JEALOUSY Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. MILTON, Paradise Lost. O, beware, my lord, of JEALOUSY ; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock Jehu.-Like the driving of JEHU the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.-2 Kings ix. 20. Jeremy Diddler.-A character in Kenny's farce of "Raising the Wind," who is represented as a needy and seedy individual, always contriving by his songs, bon-mots, or other expedients, to borrow money or obtain credit. Jest.-A JEST's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.-SHAKESPERE, Love's Labour. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee JEST, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles.-MILTON, L'Allegro. Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful JEST.-DR. JOHNSON, London. Jew. This is the JEW That Shakespere drew. Joke. A college JOKE to cure the dumps. SWIFT, Cassimus and Peter. And gentle dulness ever loves a JOKE.-POPE, Dunciad. Joy.-Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And then flows all that charms our ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a suffusion from that light.-COLERIDGE, Dejection. Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of JOY or woe, But, turning, trembles too. MRS. GREVILLE. Joy. Still from the fount of JOY's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings. BYRON, Childe Harold. There's not a JOY the world can give like that it takes away. Judge. If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent JUDGE.-WALTON, Angler. The cold neutrality of an impartial JUDGE.—ED. BURKE. And men have lost their reason.-SHAKESPERE, Julius Cæsar. POPE, Essay on Criticism. But as when an authentic watch is shown, So, in our very JUDGMENTS.—SIR J. SUCKLING, Aglaura. Jury.-In my mind he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Comthe whole machinery of the state, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing TWELVE GOOD MEN INTO A BOX.—LORd Brougham, Present State of the Laro. mons, The JURY, passing on the prisoner's life, SHAKESPERE, Measure for Measure. Jurymen. The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, POPE, Rape of the Lock. Justice.-Poetic JUSTICE, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.-Ibid., Dunciad. There, take, says JUSTICE, take ye each a shell; We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'Twas a fat oyster-live in peace-adieu. Ibid., Windsor Forest, Verbatim from Boileau. K. Ketch, Jack.-A hangman or executioner;-commonly so called, from one JOHN KETCH, a wretch who lived in the time of James II., and made himself universally odious by the butchery of many brave and noble victims, particularly those sentenced to death by the infamous Jeffreys during the Bloody Assizes." Kick. A KICK that scarce would move a horse May kill a sound divine.-COWPER, The Yearly Distress. Kin.-A little more than KIN, and less than kind. SHAKESPERE, Hamlet. Kind. A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous KIND. DAVID GARRICK, On Quitting the Stage. Heaven in sunshine will requite the KIND.-BYRON. Kindness.-KINDNESS, nobler ever than revenge. SHAKESPERE, As You Like It. Milk of human KINDNESS.-Ibid., Macbeth. King.—A KING of shreds and patches.—Ibid., Hamlet. - Ay, every inch a KING.-Ibid., King Lear. God bless the KING, I mean the faith's defender; God bless us all,—that's quite another thing. God save our gracious KING, Long live our noble king, God save the king.-H. CAREY. J. BYROM, extempore. King. The KING is but a man, as I am, the violet smells to him as it does to me.-SHAKESPERE. The KING of terrors.—Job xviii. 14. There's such divinity doth hedge a KING, SHAKESPERE, Hamlet. Kings.-Kind as KINGS upon their coronation day. DRYDEN, The Hind and Panther. KINGS are like stars-they rise and set-they have The worship of the world, but no repose.-SHELLEY, Hellas. KINGS may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.-BURNS, Tam o' Shanter. KINGS will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.-ED. BURKE. The right divine of KINGS to govern wrong.-POPE, Dunciad. King Cole.-Old KING COLE Was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he. HALLIWELL, Nursery Rhymes of England The venerable KING COLE would find few subjects here to acknowledge his monarchy of mirth.-E. P. WHIPPLE. King of France.-The KING OF FRANCE, with forty thousand men, Went up a hill, and so came down agen. R. TARLTON, From the Pigges Corantoe. Knave. A crafty KNAVE needs no broker.-SHAKESPERE, Henry V. Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more KNAVE than fool.-MARLOWE, Jew of Malta. Knell.-Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a KNELL That summons thee to heaven or to hell!-SHAKESPERE, Know. Not to KNOW me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.-MILTON, Paradise Lost. Knowledge. And all our KNOWLEDGE is ourselves to know. Macbeth. POPE, Essay on Man. Half our KNOWLEDGE we must snatch, not take. Ibid., Moral Essays. KNOWLEDGE comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest. |