Dissension.-Alas! how light a cause may move

DISSENSION between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied ;

That stood the storm, when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off,

Like ships that have gone down at sea,
When heaven was all tranquillity.

MOORE, The Light of the Hurem.

Dissimulation.-DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy; for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it. -BACON.

Distance.-'Tis DISTANCE lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

CAMPBELL, Pleasures of Hope. Ditto to Mr. Burke.-At the conclusion of one of Mr. Burke's eloquent harangues, Mr. Cruger, finding nothing to add, or perhaps, as he thought, to add with effect, exclaimed earnestly, in the language of the counting-house, "I say DITTO TO MR. BURKE, I say ditto to Mr. Burke."-PRIOR, Life of Burke.

Doctor Fell.-I do not love thee DOCTOR FELL,

The reason why I cannot tell;

But this alone I know full well,

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.-TOM BROWNE, 1704.

Doctors. Who shall decide, when DOCTORS disagree,
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Doctrine.

POPE, Moral Essays.

Prove their DOCTRINE orthodox,
By apostolic blows and knocks. —BUTLER, Hudibras.

Some to church repair,

Not for the DOCTRINE but the music there.

POPE, Essay on Criticism.

What makes all DOCTRINES plain and clear?

About two hundred pounds a year.

And that which was proved true before,

Prove false again? Two hundred more.-BUTLER, Hudibras.

Dog. And in that town a DOG was found,

As many dogs there be,

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound,

And curs of low degree.-GOLDSMITH, On a Mad Dog.

The DOG, to gain his private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.-Ibid.

The man recovered of the bite;
The DOG it was that died.-Ibid.

Dog.-I am his Highness's DOG at Kew;

Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?--POPE, Windsor Forest.

Let Hercules himself do what he may,

The cat will mew, and DOG will have his day.

Dogs. Let DOGS delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so;

Let bears and lions growl and fight,

SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

For 'tis their nature to.-WATTS, Song xvi.

Domestic Joy.-How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,

Our own felicity we make or find.

With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,

Glides the smooth current of DOMESTIC JOY.

JOHNSON, Lines added to GOLDSMITH'S Traveller.

Done. If it were DONE, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,

But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,—
We'd jump the life to come.-SHAKESPERE, Macbeth.
What's DONE we partly may compute,

But know not what's resisted.

BURNS, Address to the Unco' Guid.

Dotes.-But, O, what damned minutes tell he o'er,
Who DOTES, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves!

SHAKESPERE, Othello.

Double.-DOUBLE, double toil and trouble.-Ibid., Macbeth.

Double Sense.-And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,
That palter with us in a DOUBLE SENSE;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope.-Ibid.

Doubt.-There lives more faith in honest DOUBT,

Believe me, than in half the creeds. -TENNYSON, In Memoriam.

When in DOUBT, win the trick.-HOYLE, Rules for Learners.

To be once in DOUBT

Is once to be resolved.—SHAKESPERE, Othello.

Doubts.-

Our DOUBTS are traitors,

And make us lose the good we oft might win,

By fearing to attempt.-Ibid., Measure for Measure.

But now, I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in
To saucy DOUBTS and fears.-Ibid., Macbeth.

Down. He that is DOWN can fall no lower.-BUTLER, Hudibr

He that is DOWN needs fear no fall.

BUNYAN, Pilgrim's Progress.

Downs.-All in the DoWNS the fleet was moor'd.

GAY, Sweet William's F

Dream.--A change came o'er the spirit of my DREAM.

BYRON, The Dr

I had a DREAM which was not all a dream.-Ibid., Darkn Dreams. Till their own DREAMS at length deceive 'em,

And, oft repeating, they believe 'em.-PRIOR, Almá.
To all, to each, a fair good-night,

And pleasing DREAMS, and slumbers light!-SCOTT, Marm
True, I talk of DREAMS,

Which are the children of an idle brain,

Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

SHAKESPERE, Romeo and Julie

Drink.-I DRINK no more than a sponge.-RABELAIS.

If on thy theme I rightly think,

There are five reasons why men DRINK:
Good wine, a friend, because I'm dry,
Or least I should be by-and-by,

Or any other reasons why.-H. ALDRICH, Biog. Brit.
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, The Forest.

Drown. O Lord, methought, what pain it was to DROWN!
What dreadful noise of water in mine ears!
What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks;
A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon;
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,

All scattered in the bottom of the sea;

Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes
Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,
As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems.

SHAKESPERE, Richard III.

Drum.-Not a DRUM was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried.

We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone,
But we left him alone with his glory!

C. WOLFE, 1823, Burial of Sir John Moore

Dryden.-Waller was smooth, but DRYDEN taught to join
The varying verse, the full responding line,

The long majestic march, and energy divine.—POPE, Horace. Duke Humphrey.-A name used in an old expression, "To dine with DUKE HUMPHREY," that is, to have no dinner at all. This phrase is said to have arisen from the circumstance that a part of the public walks in Old Saint Paul's, London, was called Duke Humphrey's Walk, and that those who were without the means of defraying their expenses at a tavern were formerly accustomed to walk here in hope of procuring an invitation.

It distinctly appears that one Diggory Chuzzlewit was in the habit of perpetually dining with DUKE HUMPHREY. So constantly was he a guest at that nobleman's table, indeed, and so unceasingly were his grace's hospitality and companionship forced, as it were, upon him, that we find him uneasy, and full of constraint and reluctance; writing his friends to the effect, that, if they fail to do so and so by bearer, he will have no choice but to dine again with Duke Humphrey.--DICKENS.

In the form Humfrey, it [Hunifred] was much used by the great house of Bohun, and through his mother, their heiress, descended to the ill-fated son of Henry IV., who has left it an open question whether dining with DUKE HUMPHREY alludes to the report that he was starved to death, or to the Elizabethan habit for poor gentility to beguile the dinner hour by a promenade near his tomb in old St. Paul's-YONGE.

Dunce. How much a DUNCE that has been sent to roam,

Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

COWPER, The Progress of Error.

Dust.-DUST to dust.-Common Prayer.

DUST thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.—Genesis iii. 19. Duties.-DUTIES are ours; events are God's.--CECIL.

Duty.-DUTY, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff, supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the

prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.-D. JERROLD.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the DUTY which lies nearest to thee," which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.-T. CARLYLE.

Every subject's DUTY is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.-SHAKESPERE, Henry V.

Such DUTY as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

Ibid., Taming of the Shrew.

Dwarf.-A DWARF sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.-COLERIDGE, The Friend.

Dwarf.-A DWARF on a giant's shoulders sees further of the two. HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum.

Grant them but DWARFS, yet stand they on giant's shoulders, and may see the further. --FULLER, The Holy State.

Dyer.-My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the DYER'S hand.-SHAKESPERE, Sonnets.

Dying. DYING, bless the hand that gave the blow.

DRYDEN, Spanish Friar. LONGFELLOW, Resignation.

E.

Eagle. That EAGLE'S fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of his own,

Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

E. WALLER, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing.

So the struck EAGLE, stretched upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,

And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart.

BYRON, English Bards.

Ear.-One EARE it heard, at the other out it went.

CHAUCER, Troilus and Creseide.

Ears.-Heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.

Earth.-Alas! for love if thou art all,

2 Timothy, iv. 3.

And naught beyond, O EARTH!-HEMANS, Graves of a Household.

EARTH, lie gently on their aged bones.-S. MAY.

Laid many a heavy load or thee.

Lie heavy on him, EARTH! For he

Epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh.

MOORE, Come ye Disconsolate.

EARTH has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

EARTH, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood.-SHELLEY, Alastor.

EARTH, air, and ocean, glorious three.

R. MONTGOMERY, Woman

SHAKESPERE, Henry IV.

Ease.--Shall I not take mine EASE in mine inn?