=Doom.=

What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? 577 SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Doubt.=

Modest doubt is call’d
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst.
578
SHAKS.:  Troil. and Cress., Act ii., Sc. 2.

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
579
SHAKS.:  M. for M., Act i., Sc. 5.

=Drama.=

The drama’s laws the drama’s patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 580 DR. JOHNSON:  Pro.  On Opening Drury Lane Theatre.

=Dreams.=

I talk of dreams
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy;
Which is as thin of substance as the air;
And more inconstant than the wind.
581
SHAKS.:  Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 4.

Dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy. 582 BYRON:  Dream, St. 1.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams,
Unnatural and full of contradictions;
Yet others of our most romantic schemes
Are something more than fictions.
583
HOOD:  The Haunted House.

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. 584 TENNYSON:  The Two Voices, St. cxxvii.

=Dress.=

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
585
LADY M.W.  MONTAGU:  A Summary of Lord Lyttelton’s Advice.

We sacrifice to dress, till household joys
And comforts cease.  Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires,
And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,
Where peace and hospitality might reign.
586
COWPER:  Task, Bk. ii., Line 614.

=Drink—­Drinking—­Drunkenness.=

Oh, that men should put an enemy in
Their mouths, to steal away their brains! that we
Should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause,
Transform ourselves into beasts!
587
SHAKS.:  Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3,

Give him strong drink until he wink,
That’s sinking in despair;
An’ liquor guid to fire his bluid,
That’s prest wi’ grief an’ care,
There let him house and deep carouse,
Wi’ bumpers flowing o’er,
Till he forgets his loves or debts,
An’ minds his griefs no more.
588
BURNS:  Scotch Drink.

=Dryden.=

Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. 589 POPE:  Satire v., Line 267.

=Duelling.=

Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. 590 DR. JOHNSON:  London.