CLAY.-For ever will I sleep, while "Alas! for pity stay, And let us die With thee; men cannot mock us in the clay." Ay; these look like the workmanship of Heaven: DRYDEN.-Don Sebastian, Act I. Scene 1. CLEAN YOUR SHOES? GAY.-Trivia, Book I. Line 24; Book II. CLIMB.-Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb Fain would I climb, but that I fear to fall. [A line written by SIR WALTER RALEIGH, with a diamond ring, on the glass of a window in a pavilion of Queen Elizabeth, who, on being informed of it, wrote underneath it :] "If thy mind fail thee, do not climb at all." SCOTT.-Kenilworth, Chap. XVII. 1. I am lost in thought. 2. Thought of the Queen, perhaps? 1. Why, if it were, Heaven may be thought on, though too high to climb. 2. Oh! now I find where your ambition drives. DRYDEN.-Spanish Friar, Act I. Scene 1. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all. SCOTT.-Intro. to Chron. of the Canongate, He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, The lower still you crawl, you'll climb the higher. Downward to climb, and backward to advance. POPE.-The Dunciad, Book II. Line 320. CLOAKS.-When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks. SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act II. Scene 3. (Third Citizen to his Companions.) CLOCK. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus.) Great Nature's well-set clock in pieces took; Made up again the whole of every part. COWLEY.-The Davideis, Book I. Line 743. CLOUD.-Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish : A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; SHAKSPERE.-Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Mac- COACH.—Go call a coach, and let a coach be call'd; And in his calling, let him nothing call, But Coach, Coach, Coach! O for a Coach, ye Gods! CAREY.-Chrononhotonthologos, Scene 5. COCK-A-HOOP.-And having routed the whole troop, BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part I. Canto III. Line 13. You'll make a mutiny among my guests! SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 5. The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn. SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act V. Scene 3. (Ratcliff to Richard.) Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, Cock-a-doodle-doo. SHAKSPERE.-Tempest, Act I. Scene 2. COFFIN.-No useless coffin enclos'd his breast, But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, COIN. REV. CHAS. WOLFE.-Monody on the Death of Coin heaven's image In stamps that are forbid. SHAKSPERE. Measure for Measure, Act II. This is the very coinage of your brain. SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. COLD.-The air bites shrewdly. SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. Act I. Scene 4. (The Prince to Horatio and Marcellus.) Is very snow-broth. A man whose blood SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act I. Scene 5. (Lucio to Isabella.) Cold as the turkies coffin'd up in crust. SHIRLEY.-The Sisters. The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name; But mine was like a lava flood, That boils in Etna's breast of flame. COLOSSUS.-Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. COLOURS.-Mocking the air with colours idly spread. SHAKSPERE.-King John, Act V. Scene 1. (The Bastard to the King.) COLUMN.-Where London's column, pointing to the skies POPE.-Moral Essays, to Bathurst, Epi. III. COMBINATION.--A combination, and a form, indeed, SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. COME.-Come what come may; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 3. (Macbeth to Banquo.) Come, live with me, and be my love. MARLOW.-A Song. It is also in COTTON, in his COMFORT-That comfort comes too late; That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd me; He receives comfort like cold porridge. SHAKSPERE.-Tempest, Act II. Scene 1. COMMEND.-Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, POPE.-Prologue to Satires, Line 205. COMMENTATORS.-Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, YOUNG.-Love of Fame, Sat. VII. Line 95. COMMON.—As common as a barber's chair. BURTON.-Anat. of Melancholy, Ed. 1651. 54 COMMON-COMPANY. COMMON.-Like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks. SHAKSPERE.-All's Well that Ends Well, Act II. Scene 2. (Clown to the Countess.) As common as the stairs, That mount the capitol. SHAKSPERE.-Cymbeline, Act I. Scene 7. As common as the highway. OLD PROVERB.-Knight's Shak. Sup. This comes of visiting commoners. GARRICK.-High Life below Stairs, Act II. COMMUNION.-They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. MILTON.-Par. Lost, Book V. Line 637. Thus may we abide in union, Joys which earth cannot afford. BENEDICTION. COMPANY.-It is certain that either wise bearing, or ignorant carriage, is caught as men take diseases, one of another; therefore, let men take heed of their company. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act V. Get thee gone; I see thou art not for my company. SHAKSPERE.- Is all our company here? SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had as lief have been myself alone. SHAKSPERE.-As You Like It, Act III. Scene 2. (Jaques to Orlando.) Catius is ever moral, ever grave, Thinks who endures a knave, is next a knave, Save just at dinner-then prefers, no doubt, A rogue with venison, to a saint without. POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. I. To Temple, Line 77. |