Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

=Dislike.=

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.
562
TOM BROWN:  Trans. of Martial’s Ep.  I., 33.

=Disobedience.=

Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
563
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. i., Line 1.

=Disorder.=

You have displac’d the mirth, broke the good meeting,
With most admir’d disorder.
564
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Disposition.=

He is of a very melancholy disposition. 565 SHAKS.:  Much Ado, Act i., Sc. 1.

=Dispute.=

’T is strange how some men’s tempers suit,
Like bawd and brandy, with dispute,
That for their own opinions stand fast,
Only to have them claw’d and canvass’d.
566
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 1.

=Dissension.=

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts, That no dissension hinder government. 567 SHAKS.:  3 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 6.

=Dissimulation.=

Away and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth know. 568 SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7.

=Dissolution.=

Like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
569
SHAKS.:  Tempest, Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Distance.=

’T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. 570 CAMPBELL:  Pl. of Hope, Pt. i., Line 7.

Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
571
WORDSWORTH:  Personal Talk, St. 2.

=Distrust.=

The saddest thing that can befall a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
572
ALEXANDER SMITH:  A Life Drama, Sc. 12.

=Divinity.=

There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
573
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 2.

=Doctrine.=

And prove their doctrine orthodox,
By apostolic blows and knocks.
574
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 205.

=Dogs.=

Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are ’clept
All by the name of dogs.
575
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Dominion.=

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:  Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. 576 MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. i., Line 261.

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