DANGER.-Keep together here, lest, running thither,
We unawares run into danger's mouth.

MILTON.-Samson Agonistes.

I'll read you matter deep and dangerous.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV., Part I. Act I.
Scene 3. (Worcester to Hotspur.)

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
SHAKSPERE. Ibid. Part I. Act II. Scene 3.

(Hotspur, reading a Letter of caution.)

DAISY.-There! is Mosgiel farm; and that's the very field where Burns ploughed up the daisy.

WORDSWORTH.-Vol. V. Page 243.

DAN-I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "Tis all barren.

STERNE.-Sentimental Journey. (In the street,
Calais.)

DANIEL.-A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
O wise young judge, how do I honour thee!

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act IV.
Scene 1.

A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!

SHAKSPERE. Ibid. (Shylock to Portia.)

DARE.-Prithee, peace:

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more, is none.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 7.
(To his Lady.)

What man dare, I dare:

Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hircan tiger,
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4.
(To the Ghost of Banquo.)

DARED.-What? am I dar'd and bearded to my face?
SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VI. Part I. Act I.
Scene 3. (Gloster to Winchester.)

And dar'st thou then

To beard the lion in his den,

The Douglas in his hall?

SCOTT.-Marmion, Canto VI. Stanza 14.

DARED.-Determined, dared, and done.

SMART.-Song to David, Verse 86.

DARES.-What, though success will not attend on all,
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
SMOLLETT.-Advice, Line 207.

DARK.-At one stride came the dark.

COLERIDGE.The Ancient Mariner.

DARKNESS VISIBLE.-Of darkness visible so much be lent,

As half to show, half veil the deep intent.

POPE.-The Dunciad, Book IV. Line 3.

Darkness visible.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 63.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all,
Thou art our great original!

YALDEN.-Hymn.

DAUGHTER.-The mother to her daughter spake,
Daughter, said she, arise;

Thy daughter to her daughter take,

Whose daughter's daughter cries.

RILEY'S Dictionary of Classical Quotations, 221.

[A distich, according to Zuinglius, on a lady of the family of the Dalburgs, who saw her descendants to the sixth generation.]

Had he no friend-no daughter dear,

His wandering toil to share and cheer;
No son to be his father's stay,

And guide him in the rugged way?

SCOTT.-Last Minstrel, conclusion of Canto III.

If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,
No peace
shali you know, though you've buried your wife!
At twenty she mocks at the duty you taught her-
Oh, what a plague is an obstinate daughter!

SHERIDAN.-The Duenna, Act I. Scene 3.

My daughter was ever a good girl.

MURPHY.-Three Weeks after Marriage, Act II.

DAY.-One day in thy courts is better than a thousand.
PSALM LXXXIV. Verse 10.

Empire and love! the vision of a day.

YOUNG.-Force of Religion, Book I. Line 94.

DAY.-One day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

YONGE'S CICERO.-Tusculan Disp. Book V.
Division 2.

Frail empire of a day!

That with the setting sun extinct is lost.

SOMERVILLE.-Hobbinol, Canto III. Line 326.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

ST. MATTHEW.-Chap. VI. Verse 34.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky,
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;
For thou must die.

GEORGE HERBERT.-The Temple; Virtue.

At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still,
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill,
And nought but the nightingale's heard in the grove.
BEATTIE.-The Hermit, Line 1.

The bright procession of a day.

BROOME.-Lady and her Looking-glass.

O life, frail offspring of a day!
"Tis puff'd with one short gasp away!
Swift as the short-liv'd flower it flies,
It springs, it blooms, it fades, it dies.
BROOME.-Melancholy.

Such and so varied, the precarious play

Of fate with man, frail tenant of a day!

SCOTT.-Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XXV.

Day is driven on by day, and the new moons hasten to their

wane.

SMART'S HORACE.-Book II. Ode XVIII.

DAYS.-Though fallen on evil days,

On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Line 25, Book VII.

We are fall'n on dark and evil days!

MRS. HEMANS.-Siege of Valencia, Scene I., Page 264; and see ROGERS' Italy, the Campagna of Florence, Page 116, Edition 1830.

DAYS.-Enlarge my life with multitude of days,
In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays;
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.

DR. JOHNSON.-Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 255.

DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM.-Of the dead be nothing said but what is good.

RILEY'S Dictionary of Lat. Quotations.

No farther seek his merits to disclose,

Or draw his frailties from their dread abode;
There they alike in trembling hope repose,
The bosom of his Father and his God.

GRAY'S Elegy.-The Epitaph, Verse 3.

DEAD.-He still might doubt the tyrant's power;
So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd,

The first, last look by death reveal'd!

Such is the aspect of this shore;

Tis Greece, but living Greece no more!
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,

We start, for soul is wanting there.

BYRON.-The Giaour, Line 87.

He who hath bent him o'er the dead,
Ere the first day of death is fled;-
(Before Decay's effacing fingers,

Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,)
And mark'd the mild angelic air,

The rapture of repose that's there.

BYRON.-The Giaour, Line 68.

Fal.-What! is the old king dead?

Pistol.-As nail in door.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act V.
Scene 3.

O lady, he is dead and gone!

Lady, he's dead and gone!

And at his head a green grass turfe,

And at his heels a stone.

ANONYMOUS.—1 Percy Reliques, Book II.
Page 260. The Friars of Orders Gray.

Come! let the burial rite be read-the funeral song be sung!-
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young-
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
POE.-Lenore, Verse 1.

DEAD.-I have syllables of dread;
They can wake the dreamless dead.

W. L. BOWLES.-Grave of the Last Saxon,
Line 32.

DEAF. What does he say, John-eh? I am hard of hearing.
GARRICK.-Lethe, Act I.

DEAR.-A man he was to all the country dear.
GOLDSMITH.-The Deserted Village, Line 141.

Dear lost companions of my tuneful art,
Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes,

Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

GRAY.-The Bard, Stanza III. Line 11.

Devilish dear, master classic, devilish dear!

FOOTE.-The Englishman in Paris, Act I. Scene 1.

Dear Tom, this brown jug that now foams with mild ale.
FAWKES.-The Brown Jug, a Song.

DEATH.-O proud death!

What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,

That thou so many princes, at a shoot,

So bloodily hast struck?

Hamlet, Act V. Scene 2.

SHAKSPERE.
(Fontinbras.)

The rest is silence.

SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. (Hamlet dying.)

Look down,

And see what death is doing.

SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act III. Scene 2.
(Paulina to Leontes.)

In the midst of life we are in death.
BURIAL SERVICE.

Death finds us 'mid our play-things-snatches us,
As a cross nurse might do a wayward child,
From all our toys and baubles. His rough call
Unlooses all our favourite ties on earth;
And well if they are such as may be answer'd
In yonder world, where all is judged of truly.

OLD PLAY; and see SENECA, Epi. XXIII.

The farthest from the fear,

Are often nearest to the stroke of fate.

YOUNG. Night V. Line 790.