=Challenge.=

There I throw my gage,
To prove it on thee, to the extremest point
Of mortal breathing.
287
SHAKS.:  Richard II., Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Chance.=

That power
Which erring men call Chance.
288
MILTON:  Comus, Line 587.

All nature is but art unknown to thee, All chance, direction, which thou canst not see. 289 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 289.

=Change.=

All but God is changing day by day. 290 CHARLES KINGSLEY:  Prometheus.

When change itself can give no more,
’T is easy to be true.
291
CHARLES SEDLEY:  Reasons for Constancy.

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing
  grooves of change.
292
TENNYSON:  Locksley Hall, Line 182.

=Chaos.=

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. 293 SHAKS.:  Venus and A., Line 1019.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused. 294 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 13.

=Character.=

There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history
Fully unfold.
295
SHAKS.:  M. for M., Act i., Sc. 1.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance and birthright are.
296
E.C.  STEDMAN:  Beyond the Portals, Pt. 10.

=Charity.=

Charity itself fulfils the law,
And who can sever love from charity?
297
SHAKS.:  Love’s L. Lost, Act iv., Sc. 3.

Alas for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!
298
HOOD:  Bridge of Sighs.

=Charms.=

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 299 POPE:  R. of the Lock, Canto v., Line 34.

=Chastity.=

So dear to heav’n is saintly chastity,
That when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
300
MILTON:  Comus, Line 453.

=Chatterton.=

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perish’d in his pride.  Of him who walk’d in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain side. 301 WORDSWORTH:  Res. and Indep., St. 7.

=Chaucer.=

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame’s eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. 302 SPENSER:  Faerie Queene, Bk. iv., Canto ii., St. 32.

=Cheating.=

Doubtless the pleasure is as great,
Of being cheated as to cheat.
303
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto iii., Line 1.

=Cheerfulness.=

It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
304
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL:  Legend of Brittany, Pt. i., St. 35.

=Chickens.=

To swallow gudgeons ere they ’re catch’d, And count their chickens ere they ’re hatch’d. 305 BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 923.