DEPENDENCE. DEPORTMENT. DESERT. 239

DEPENDENCE.

WHAT shalt thou expect,

To be depender on a thing that leans?

They slept in peace by night,

Secure of bread as of returning light;

Shakspere.

And with such firm dependence on the day,
That need grew pampered, and forgot to pray.

Who would rely upon these miserable
Dependencies, in expectation

To be advanced to-morrow? what creature
Ever fed worse than hoping Tantalus?
Nor ever died any man more fearfully
Than he that hoped for a pardon?

DEPORTMENT.

SHE Delia's self

Dryden.

Webster.

In gait surpassed and goddess-like deport.

Milton.

In middle age one rising, eminent

In wise deport, spake much of right and wrong.

Milton.

What's a fine person or a beauteous face,

Unless deportment gives them decent grace?

Churchill.

DESERT-DESERTION.

I HAVE words

That should be howled out on the desert air,

Where hearing should not catch them.

He looked around, on every side, beheld

Shakspere.

A pathless desert dusk with horrid shades.-Milton.

Full many a gem, of purest ray serene,

The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.-Gray.

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DESIGN. DESIRE. DESOLATION.

DESIGN.

"T WOULD Show me poor, indebted, and compelled, Designing, mercenary; and I know

You would not wish to think I could be bought.

The hand strikes out some new design,

Shakspere.

Where life awakes, and dawns at every line.-Pope.

When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

DESIRE.

Denham.

HAD doting Priam checked his son's desire,
Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.
Shakspere.
O fierce desire, the spring of sighs and tears,
Relieved with want, impoverished with store,
Nursed with vain hopes, and fed with doubtful fears,
Whose force withstood, increaseth more and more!

'Tis most ignoble, that a mind unshaken By fear, should by a vain desire be broken;

Brandon.

Or that those powers no labour e'er could vanquish, Should be o'ercome and thrall'd by sordid pleasure.

DESOLATION.

My desolation does begin to make

Chapman.

A better life.

Shakspere.

Without her follows to myself and thee,

Death, desolation, ruin, and decay.

Shakspere.

Thick around

Herself, the land, and many a christian soul,

Thunders the sport of those, who with the gun

And dog, impatient bounding at the shot,

Worse than the season desolate the fields.-Thomson.

DESPAIR. DESPISE. DESTROY.

DESPAIR.

THE swallowing gulf

Of dark oblivion and deep despair.

241

Shakspere.

Despair takes heart, when there's no hope to speed: The coward then takes arms and does the deed.

Herrick.

Equal their flame, unequal was their care;
One loved with hope, one languished with despair.

With woful measures wan despair-
Low sullen sounds his grief beguil'd;
A solemn, strange, and mingled air!
'Twas sad by fits, by starts 't was wild.

Dryden.

Collins.

DESPISE.

ART thou thus boldened, man, by thy distress?
Or else a rude despiser of good manners,

That of civility thou seem'st so empty? Shakspere.

All earth He gave thee to possess and rule,

No despicable gift.

Milton.

DESTROY.

Ir was a pity-so it was,

That villainous saltpetre should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many a good brave fellow has destroy'd.

For glory done

Shakspere.

Of triumph to be styled great conquerors,
Patrons of mankind, gods, and sons of gods!
Destroyers rightlier called, and slayers of men.

When that which we immortal thought,
We saw so near destruction brought,
We felt what you did then endure,
And tremble yet as not secure.

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Milton.

Waller.

242

DEVIATION. DEVOTION. DIAL.

DEVIATION.

WHAT makes all physical and moral ill?

Here nature deviates, and there wanders will.-Pope.

Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take,

May boldly deviate from the common track.—Pope. To what gulfs

A single deviation from the track

Of human duties leads!

Byron

DEVOTION.

GRATEFUL to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes, Directed in devotion, to adore

And worship God supreme, who made him chief
Of all his works.

The immortal gods

Accept the meanest altars that are raised
By pure devotion; and sometimes prefer
An ounce of frankincense, honey, or milk,
Before whole hecatombs of Sabæan gems,
Offer'd in ostentation.

And let not this seem strange; the devotee
Lives not on earth, but in his ecstacy;

Milton.

Massinger.

Around him days and worlds are heedless driven, His soul is gone, before his dust, to heaven.-Byron.

DIAL.

O, GENTLEMEN, the time of life is short;

To spend that shortness basely were too long,
Though time did ride upon a dial's point,

Still ending at the arrival of an hour. Shakspere.

True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shined upon.

Butler.

DIFFERENCE. DIFFIDENCE. DIGESTION. 243

DIFFERENCE.

Он, the strange difference of man and man!

Shakspere.

Thus born alike, from virtue first began
The difference that distinguished man from man;
He claimed no title from descent of blood,
But that which made him noble-made him good.
Dryden.

'Tis strange there should such difference be,
'Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee.

We all, my lords, have err'd:

Butler.

Men may, I find, be honest, though they differ.

Thomson.

DIFFIDENCE.

BE not diffident

Of wisdom; she deserts thee not, if thou

Dismiss not her, when most thou need'st her nigh.

You have brought scandal

To Israel, diffidence of God, and doubt
To feeble hearts, propense enough before
To waver.

Milton.

Milton.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense,
And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence.

Pope.

DIGESTION.

IF little faults, proceeding in distemper,

Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear?

A good digestion turneth all to health.

Shakspere.

A few chosen friends who sometimes deign
To bless my humble roof, with sense refined,
Learning digested well.

Herbert.

Thomson.