Scotland. -Stands SCOTLAND where it did ? SHAKESPERE, Macbeth, act iv. sc. 3. Sea. Although its heart is rich in earls and ores, Sear. Praise the SEA, but keep on land. GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum. The SEA! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free !-B. W. PROCTOR, The Sea. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent SEA.—COLERIDGE, Ancient Mariner, pt. ii. Is fall'n into the SEAR, the yellow leaf; I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, SHAKESPERE, Macbeth, act v. sc. 3 See. O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others SEE us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.-BURNS, To a Louse. To SEE, and eek for to be seye. CHAUCER, The Wif of Bathes Prologue, 1. 6134. GOLDSMITH, TO SEE and to be seen.-BEN JONSON, Epithalamion, st. 3. 1. 4. DRYDEN, Ovid's Art of Love, bk. i. 1. 109. Citizen of the World, letter 71. Seem.-Men should be what they SEEM. SHAKESPERE, Othello, act iii. sc. 3 Seigniors. Most potent, grave, and reverend SEIGNIORS, My very noble and approv'd good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, Of my whole course of love.-Ibid., act i. sc. 3. Self-love.-SELF-LOVE, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.-SHAKESPERE, King Henry V., act ii. sc. 4. Sense. What thin partitions SENSE from thought divide. Sentiment.-SENTIMENTS! What have I to do with sentiment ?-MURPHY, The Apprentice, act i. Serpent.-Now will I show myself to have more of the SERPENT than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. MARLOWE, The Jew of Malta, act ii. The trail of the SERPENT is over them all. MOORE, Paradise and the Peri. Servant.-A SERVANT with this clause Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fine.-G. HERBERT, The Elixir. Seven Champions of Christendom.-St. George, the patron saint of England; St. Denis, of France; St. James, of Spain; St. Anthony, of Italy; St. Andrew, of Scotland; St. Patrick, of Ireland; and St. David, of Wales. They are often alluded to by old writers. The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom is the work of Richard Johnson, a ballad-maker of some note at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries. Shadow. 66 Hence, horrible SHADOW! Unreal mockery, hence !-SHAKESPERE, Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. Ibid., King Richard III., act v. sc. 3. Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feel. ingly told us what SIIADOWS we are, and what shadows we pursue. -EDMUND BURKE, Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll. Shaft. O, many a SHAFT, at random sent, May soothe, or wound, a heart's that broken. SCOTT, Lord of the Isles, canto v. st. 18. Shakespere.-Kitty. Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? No, I never read Shikspur. Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleasure to come. J. TOWNLEY, 1778, High Life below Stairs, act ii. sc. 1. Soul of the age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! A little further, to make thee a room. BEN JONSON, To the Memory of Shakespere. He was not of an age, but for all time.-Ibid. Sweet swan of Avon!-Ibid. Under a starry-pointing pyramid. Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. MILTON, Epitaph on Shakespere, 1. 4. Shallow. A country Justice, in Shakespere's "Merry Wives of Windsor," and in the Second Part of "King Henry the Fourth." "A nurse of this century is as wise as a justice of the quorum and custalorum in SHALLOW's time."-Macaulay. Shape. Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable SHAPE, That I will speak to thee.-SHAKESPERE, Hamlet. The other SHAPE If shape it might be call'd that shape had none And shook a dreadful dart. MILTON, Paradise Lost, book ii. 1. 665. Whence and what art thou, execrable SHAPE?—Ibid., 1. 681. SHAPES that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid.-WORDSWORTH, Dion, Sheet.-A wet SHEET and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast.-ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. Shepherd's Boy.-Here's a SHEPHERD'S BOY, piping as though he never should be old.-SIDNEY, Arcadia, book i. Shilling. Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A splendid SHILLING.-J. PHILLIPS, The Splendid Shilling. Shriek. A solitary SHRIEK, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.-BYRON, Don Juan, canto i. st. 53. Shrine.-SHRINE of the mighty! can it be That this is all remains of thee?—Ibid., The Giaour, 1. 106. Sick. They are as SICK that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.-SHAKESPERE, Merchant of Venice, act i. BC. 2. Sick Man of the East.-A name popularly given to the Turkish empire, which, under Soliman the Magnificent (1495-1566), reached the summit of its prosperity, and has ever since steadily declined. At the present day, Turkey is mainly indebted for its existence to the support of foreign powers. The expression, "SICK MAN," as applied to Turkey, originated with the emperor Nicholas of Russia in 1844. Sighed. SIGHED and looked, and sighed again. DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast, 1. 120. SIGHED and looked unutterable things. THOMSON, The Seasons: Summer, 1. 1188. Bight.-Visions of glory, spare my aching SIGHT! GRAY, The Bard, III. i. L. 11. Sights. Such SIGHTS as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespere, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.-MILTON, L'Allegro, 1. 129. Silence.-SILENCE in love betrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. SIR WALTER RALEIGH, The Silent Lover, v. 6. Silent Sister, The.-A name given to Trinity College, Dublin, on account of the little influence it exerts in proportion to its resources. Neither Oxford nor Cambridge. I am certain, would blush to own my labours in this department (classic criticism and exegesis), and yet I was an alumnus of her whom they used to style the SILENT SISTER.KEIGHTLEY. Silent Sister.-Trinity College itself held its ground and grew wealthy only to deserve the name of the SILENT SISTER, while its great endowments served effectually to indemnify it against the necessity of conforming to the conditions under which alone its ex ample could be useful to the whole nation.-GOLDWIN SMITH. Simile.-One SIMILE that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines. POPE'S Horace, epistle i. book ii. 1. 111. Sinews of War, The. Æschines (Adv. Ctesiph. ch. 53 ascribes to Demosthenes the expression, "the sinews of affairs are cut." Diogenes Laertius, in his "Life of Bion" (lib. iv. c. 7, § 3), represents that philosopher as saying "that riches were the sinews of business," or, as the phrase may mean, "of the state." Sing.-Oh she will SING the savageness out of a bear. SHAKESPERE, Othello, act iv. sc. 1. Singers.- Let the singing SINGERS Ev'n sound itself.-HENRY CAREY, Chronon., act i. sc. 1. Sins. Compound for SINS they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.-BUTLER, Hudibras. A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end. SWIFT, Imitation of Horace, book ii. sat. 6. Sixpence. I give thee SIXPENCE! I will see thee d-d first. Slander. G. CANNING, Friend of Humanity. No, 'tis SLANDER, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue SHAKESPERE, Cymbeline, act iii. sc. 4 Slanderous. Done to death by SLANDEROUS tongues. Ibid., Much Ado, act v. sc. 3, Slave. I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, COWPER, Task, 1. 29. Slaves.-SLAVES cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.—1 vid., bk. ii. l. 40 |