Cowards.-COWARDS falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare-QUEEN ELIZABETH. Creature.-A CREATURE not too bright or good For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. WORDSWORTH, She was a Phantom. Creed. And so the Word had breath, and wrought Which he may read that binds the sheaf, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.--TENNYSON, In Memoriam. A Pagan suckled in a CREED outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; WORDSWORTH, Sonnets. MOORE, Come send round the wine. The knots that tangle human CREEDS.-TENNYSON, Poems. Cricket. Save the CRICKET on the hearth.-MILTON, Il Penseroso. Crime. It is more than a CRIME, it is a political fault; words which I record because they have been repeated and attributed to others, -Memoirs of Fouché. Crimes. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged CRIMES, Unwhipp'd of justice.-SHAKESPERE, King Lear. Critical. For I am nothing, if not CRITICAL.--Ibid., Othello. A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call it Attic salt; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet: Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. BYRON, English Bards. Cruel. I must be CRUEL, only to be kind: SHAKESPERE, Hamlet. Cuckoo.-O CUCKOO! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice ?—WORDSWORTH, To the Cuckoo. Crown.-Uneasy lies the head that wears a CROWN. SHAKESPERE, Henry IV, Cupid. This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan CUPID; Ibid., Love's Labour's Lost. Curfew.-The CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, Curses. "CURSES are like young chickens, GRAY, Elegy. And still come home to roost!"-LYTTON, Lady of Lyons. Custom. But to my mind,-though I am native here, More honoured in the breach, than the observance. SHAKESPERE, Hamlet. Cut. This was the most unkindest CUT of all.—Ibid., Julius Cæsar. Cut off.-CUT OFF even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousel'd, disappointed, unaneled; No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head.-Ibid., Hamlet. Cuttle, Captain.-A character in Dickens's "Dombey and Son," combining great humour, eccentricity, and pathos, distinguished for his simplicity, credulity, and generous trustfulness. One of his famous expressions is, "When found, make a note of." Cynosure.-Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees The CYNOSURE of neighbouring eyes.-MILTON, L'Allegro. D. Dagger.-Is this a DAGGER which I see before me, Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling, as to sight? or art thou but SHAKESPERE, Macbeth. Daggers-Drawing.-Have always been at DAGGERS-DRAWING, Daisy. Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, CHAUCER, Legend of Good Women. That well by reason men it call may Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. WORDSWORTH, To a Child The poet's darling.-Ibid., To the Daisy. Thou unassuming commonplace Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem.-BURNS, To a Daisy. Myriads of DAISIES have shown forth in flower WORDSWORTH, Poems, 1833, Dame. Where sits our sulky, sullen DAME, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.-BURNS, Tam O'Shanter. Daniel.-A DANIEL come to judgment ! SHAKESPERE, Merchant of Venice. A second DANIEL, a Daniel, Jew! Letting I DARE not wait upon I would, What man DARE, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, Dark.-DARK with excessive bright.-MILTON, Paradise Lost. I am just going to leap into the DARK.-RABELAIS. Darkness.-DARKNESS which may be felt.-Exodus x. 21. Yet from those flames No light, but rather DARKNESS visible. MILTON, Paradise Lost. Davy Jones.-A familiar name among sailors for death, formerly for the evil spirit who was supposed to preside over the demons of the sea. He was thought to be in all storms, and was sometimes seen of gigantic height, showing three rows of sharp teeth in his enormous mouth, opening great frightful eyes, and nostrils which emitted blue flames. The ocean is still termed by sailors DAVY JONES'S LOCKER. Dawn.-The DAWN is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Day. "I've lost a DAY "-the prince who nobly cried, YOUNG, Night Thoughts. Philip. Madam, a DAY may sink or save a realm. Now's the DAY, and now's the hour, TENNYSON, Queen Mary. See the front o' battle lour.-BURNS, Scots wha hae. Sweet DAY, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky.-G. HERBERT, Virtue. The DAY is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.—LONGFELLOW, The Day is Done Days.-My DAYS are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!-BYRON, On my Thirty-sixth Year. Of all the DAYS that's in the week I dearly love but one day, And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday. H. CAREY (1743), Sally in our Alley. Dead.-DEAD, for a ducat, dead.--SHAKESPERE, Hamlet. There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty DEAD. THOMSON, The Seasons, Winter. Death.-DEATH borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.-Bishop HALL, Epistles. A double DEATH, to drown in ken of shore. Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, SHAKESPERE, Lucrece. Where DEATHI's approach is seen so terrible.-Ibid., Henry IV. And nothing can we call our own but DEATH, Ibid., Richard II. By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, POPE, Unfortunate Lady. DEATH is the crown of life: YOUNG, Night Thoughts. Every man at time of DEATH, TENNYSON, Queen Mary. Deliverer! God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed, and crush the oppressor.-W. C. BRYANT. Heaven gives its favourites early DEATH. BYRON, Childe Harold. |