A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. 544 POPE:  R. of the Lock, Canto iii., Line 15.

=Devil.=

’T is the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
545
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2.

The devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; The devil was well, the devil a saint was he. 546 RABELAIS:  Works, Bk. iv., Ch. xxiv.

=Devotion.=

As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. 517 MOORE:  As Down in the Sunless Retreats.

=Dew.=

What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew? 548 BEN JONSON:  Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet.

=Dial.=

True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin’d upon.
549
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 175.

=Difficulty.=

It is as hard to come, as for a camel
To thread the postern of a needle’s eye.
550
SHAKS:  Richard II., Act v., Sc. 5.

=Dignity.=

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. 551 MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. viii., Line 488.

=Digression.=

And there began a lang digression
About the lords o’ the creation.
552
BURNS:  The Twa Dogs.

=Dinner.=

Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. 553 BYRON:  Don Juan, Canto xiii., St. 99.

=Disappointment.=

Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy’d, Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy’d! 554 MOORE:  Lalla Rookh, Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.

=Discord.=

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. 555 SPENSER:  Faerie Queene, Bk. iii., Canto ii., St. 15.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow. 556 ADDISON:  Cato, Act ii., Sc. 4.

=Discourse.=

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused.
557
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 4.

=Discretion.=

Let’s teach ourselves that honorable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.
558
SHAKS.:  Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3.

It shewed discretion, the best part of valor. 559 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER:  King and No King, Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Diseases.=

Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev’d,
Or not at all.
560
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Disguise.=

’T is great, ’t is manly, to disdain disguise; It shows our spirit, or it proves our strength. 561 YOUNG:  Night Thoughts, Night viii., Line 372.