Oh! conscience! conscience! man's most faithful friend, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe! 766 Crabbe: Struggles of Conscience. Last Lines Conscience, a terrifying little sprite, That, bat-like, winks by day, and wakes by night; Hunts through the heart's dark holes each lurking vice, As sharp as weasels hunting eggs or mice. 767 CONSIDERATION. Peter Pindar: The Lousiad. Canto ii. What you have said, I will consider; what you have to say, 768 Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2. Consideration like an angel came, And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. 769 CONSOLATION. Shaks.: Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; 770 CONSPIRACY. Shaks.: Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 3. Oh! think what anxious moments pass between Fill'd up with horror all, and big with death. I am constant as the northern star, Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1 O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect; that one error Fills him with faults; makes him run through all th' sins. Shaks.: Two Gent. of V. Act v. Sc. 4 774 f'ell him I love him yet, As in that joyous time; Tell him I ne'er forget, Though memory now be crime. 775 Praed: Tell Him I Love Him Yet. Changeless march the stars above, Changeless watch the changeless heaven. 776 Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. 2. Oh, the heart, that has truly loved, never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turn'd when he rose. 777 Moore: Believe Me if Those Endearing Young Charms. Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, 778 Longfellow: Annie of Th. Tr. from Simon Dach. St. 4. Sooner shall this blue ocean melt to air, 779 CONTEMPT. Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 19. What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Acti. Sc. 4. From no one vice exempt, Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 194 And most contemptible to shun contempt. 781 Think not. . . there is no smile I can bestow on thee. There is a smile, And yet, perhaps, thou wilt not thank me for it. 782 Joanna Baillie: De Monfort. Act ii. Sc. 1. Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am sham'd through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing. 783 Tennyson: Locksley Hall. St. 74. CONTENTION -see Quarrels. Sons and brothers at a strife! What is your quarrel? how began it first? Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act i Sc. 2 Where two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: 785 CONTENTMENT. Shaks. Tam. of the S. Act ii. Sc. 1. : He that commends me to mine own content, 786 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act i. Sc. 2 My crown is in my heart, not on my head; 787 Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 1 Shaks.: Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. "Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. 789 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 3. The world goes up and the world goes down, And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Sweet wife: No, never come over again. 790 Can satisfy the soul. 791 Charles Kingsley: Dolcino to Margaret. Nought but God Bailey: Festus. Sc. Heaven. Herrick: Aph. Covetous Still Captives. Let's live with that small pittance which we have; 792 Who with a little cannot be content, Endures an everlasting punishment. 793 Herrick: Aph. Poverty and Riches Man wants but little here below, 794 Goldsmith: Edwin and Angelina. St. 8. CONTENTMENT - CONTROVERSY. Since every man who lives is born to die, With equal mind what happens let us bear, 87 Dryden Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2159 Content thyself to be obscurely good : Addison: Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4 A voice of greeting from the wind was sent, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass. 797 R. H. Stoddard: Hymn to the Beautiful. This is the charm, by sages often told, Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, 798 Henry Kirke White: Clifton Grove. Line 139. Come, for the soft low sunlight calls, We lose the pleasant hours; 'Tis lovelier than these cottage walls. That seat among the flowers. And I will learn of thee a prayer, To Him who gave a home so fair, A lot so blest as ours The God who made, for thee and me, This sweet lone isle amid the sea. 799 William Cullen Bryant: Song of Pitcairn's Island. CONTROVERSY - see Discord. He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if divinity had catch'd The itch on purpose to be scratch'd. 800 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 163 When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; And made them fight, like mad or drunk, 801 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 1. Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 91 Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain; 803 CONVERSATION Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 161. see Character, Courtesy, Talking. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. 804 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 379. A dearth of words a woman need not fear; Young: Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 57 But conversation, choose what theme we may, Cowper: Conversation. Line 703. CONVERTS. Cowper: Conversation. Line 101. More proselytes and converts use t' accrue But truth has but one way to be i' th' right. Garrick: Epigr. on Goldsmith's Retal. Heaven sends us good meat; but the devil sends cooks. 810 COPYIST. A barren-spirited fellow: one that feeds On objects, arts, and imitations; Which, out of use, and staled by other men, 811 Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 1. |