COMPANY.-Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act. III. COMPARE.-So I had known whelps like dogs, so kids like their dams: thus I was wont to compare great things with small. DAVIDSON'S VIRGIL, by Buckley, Page 2. So, if great things to small may be compar'd, And scourg'd with many a stroke the indignant waves. If I may be allowed to compare little matters with great ones, RILEY'S OVID.-Meta., Page 174. COMPARISON.-One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun. SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 2. (Romeo to Benvolio.) Compare her face with some that I shall show, And it will make thee think thy swan a crow. SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. (Benvolio to Romeo.) To seek through the regions of the earth For one his like, there would be something failing SHAKSPERE.-Cymbeline, Act I. Scene 1. To me he seems like diamond to glass. SHAKSPERE.-Pericles, Act II. Scene 3. COMPARISONS.-No caparisons, miss, if you please, SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act IV. Scene 2. Comparisons are oderous. SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd. 56 COMPARISONS-CONDUCT. COMPARISONS.-Comparisons are odious. BURTON.-Anat. of Mel., Part III. Section III. GEORGE HERBERT.-Jacula Prudentum. HEYWOOD.-A Woman Kill'd with Kindness, COMPASS.-A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. SCOTT.-The Talisman, Chap. XXIV. quoting "The Crusade." COMPOSING.-"Tis true, composing is the nobler part, ROSCOMMON.-On Translated Verse. COMPOSURE.-The school was done, the bus'ness o'er, Good Syntax sought his easy chair, And sat in calm composure there. GEORGE COMBE.-Doctor Syntax, Canto I. Line 1. CONCLUSION.-But this denoted a foregone conclusion. CONDUCT.-Take heed lest passion sway MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book VIII. Line 635. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Right onward. MILTON.-Sonnet XXII. Were man But constant, he were perfect. SHAKSPERE.-Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V.. And let men so conduct themselves in life, As to be always strangers to defeat. YONGE'S Cicero. -A precept of Atreus, Tusculan CONDUCT.-When once our grace we have forgot, SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act IV. But by bad courses may be understood, That their events can never fall out good. SHAKSPERE.-King Richard II. Act II. Scene 1. (York to the King.) The honest heart that's free frae a' Intended fraud or guile, However fortune kick'd the ba', BURNS.-Epi. to Davie. Circles are prais'd, not that abound WALLER.-Long and Short Life. Epigrams. CONFIDENCE.-In maiden confidence she stood, Of deep and hopeless agony. SCOTT.-Lady of the Lake, Canto IV. Stanza 18. If ever you betray what you are entrusted with, you forfeit my malevolence for ever; and your being a simpleton shall be no excuse for your locality. SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act I. Scene 2. CONFOUND.-The attempt and not the deed, confounds us. SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act II. Scene 2. (Lady Macbeth.) If ever fearful To do a thing, when I the issue doubted, Whereof the execution did cry out Against the non-performance; 'twas a fear Which oft infects the wisest. SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act I. Scene 2. CONFUSION.-I saw and heard, for such a numerous host With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 993. 58 CONJECTURES-CONSIDERATION. CONJECTURES.-If there's a Power above Through all her works) he must delight in virtue; But when? or where? this world was made for Cæsar ; CONQUEST.—And ever since the conquest have been fools. ROCHESTER.-Letter from Artemisia to Cloe, Line 51 from end. CONSCIENCE.-Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. SHAKSPERE. Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in every thing. STERNE.-Tristram Shandy, Vol. II. Chap. XVII. and Sermon 27. CONSENT.-My consent goes not that way. SHAKSPERE.-Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III. Let him light his pipe with his consent if he pleases. Wilful against Wise for a wager. COLLEY CIBBER.-The Non-Juror, Act I. Scene 1. CONSIDERATION.-What you have said, I will consider; what you have to say, I will with patience hear: and find a time Both meet to hear and answer. SHAKSPERE.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. Consideration like an angel came, And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry V. Act I. Scene 1. CONSTABLE.-Quoth Hudibras, "Friend Ralph, thou hast, BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part I. Canto III. Who thinks you the most desartless man to be constable? SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Scene 3. (Dogberry to 1st Watch.) You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the lantern. SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Scene 3. (Dogberry to 2nd Watch.) What does this fellow of a constable mean by interrupting our play? FIELDING. The Author's Farce, Act III. Scene 1. CONSTANCY.-Hang constancy, you know too much of the world to be constant, sure. FIELDING.-Love in several Masques, Act IV. "Tis often constancy to change the mind. HOOLE'S ANASTATIO.-(SIEVES) Vol. I. Section 8. CONSTRUE.-But men may construe things, after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 3. CONSUMMATION.-"Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. CONTEMPLATION.-To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man, And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. GAY.-On the Spring, Verse 4. For contemplation he, and valour form'd; MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 297. |