DEITY-continued. Let no presuming impious railer tax Hail, source of being! universal soul Of heaven and earth! essential presence, hail! A Deity believed, is joy begun; Nature Never did bring forth a man without a man; Nor could the first man, being but There must be a superior pow'r to nature. Ib. Spring. Young. P. Le Tourneur, Atheist's Tragedy. In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Thou dread source, Cowper, Task, v. 511. Prime, self-existing cause and end of all Above Sustain'd. Thou, thou alone, O, Lord, Wordsworth. DELAY-sce Decision, Procrastination, Promptitude, Time. delays, thee. Shun they breed remont Robert Southwell. 136 DELAY. DELAY-continued. Sober speed is wisdom's leisure, After-wits are dearly bought, Let thy fore-wit guide thy thought. Robert Southwell. Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. Sh.Ric.111.IV.3. Then do we sin against our own estate, When we may profit meet, and come too late. When the day serves before black-cornered night, Find what thou want'st by free and offered light. Sh. Timon,v.1. O my good lord, that comfort comes too late; 'Tis like a pardon after execution : That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd me; But now I am past all comfort here but prayers. Sh. H. VIII. IV. 2. Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun. Sh. Troil. III. 3. That we would do, We should do when we would; for this "would" changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this "should" is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Sh. Ham. IV. 7. Young, N.T. 390. Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. And why? because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves. Young, N. Т. 1. Our greatest actions, or of good or evil, The hero's and the murderer's, spring at once Of deathless virtue and immortal crime The world had wanted, had the actor said, [417. I will do this to-morrow! Lord John Russell, Don Carlos. DELIBERATION-DEPORTMENT. DELIBERATION-see Design. When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end. Deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care. DELIGHT. 137 Denham. Milton, P. L. 11. 302. Dryden. She was his care, his hope, and his delight, DELUSION. For love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul DEMAGOGUES. I do despise these demagogues, that fret The angry multitude: they are but as The froth upon the mountain wave-the bird Sh. Ham. 111. 4. That shrieks upon the sullen tempest's wing. A. Hunt, Julian. For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Restless, unfix'd in principle and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. DENMARK. Dryden. Something is rotten in the State of Denmark. Sh. Ham. 1. 4. DEPENDENCE. Poor wretches, that depend favour, dream, as I have done ; nothing. But, alas, I swerve Sh. Cymb. v. 4. Many dream not to find, neither deserve, Nayith the winds, they blow east or west, To mathis temper pleasant or unpleasant. Crown, Amb States. DEPORTMENT. Unless deportment gives them decent grace f person, or a beauteous face, They seem like puppets let about by wires. Churchill, Rosciad, 742. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides, The Derby Dilly, carrying three insides, Sweats in the midmost place, and pants for breath. DESCENT-see Pedigree. Canning, Loves of the Triangles, 178. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base: Nature hath meal and bran, contempt, and grace.Sh. Cymb.IV.2. DESERTED-see Friendless. Deserted at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. Dryden, Alex. Feast, 78. DESIGN. Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth but poor validity; Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree, But fall unshaken when they mellow be. Sh. Ham. III. 2. When men's intents are wicked, their guilt haunts them, them. Middleton, Mad World my Masters. He that intends well, yet deprives himself Of means to put his good thoughts into deed, Deceives his purpose of its due reward. Beaum. and Fl. Honest Man's Fortune. Honest designs Justly resemble our devotions, Sir Robert Howard, Great Favourite. Which we must pay, and wait for the reward. DESIRE-see Disappointment. Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. Sh. Poems. DESOLATION. What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow ? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. Byron, Ch. Har. 11. 98. DESPAIR-see Suicide. They have ty'd me to a stake; I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course. Sh. Macb. v. 7. DESPAIR-continued. Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Sh. Macb. III. 1. 0! that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Sh. Ham. 1. 2. There's nothing in this world can make me joy: If thou didst but consent Sh. K. John, III. Sh. K. John, IV. 3. To this most cruel act, do but despair; can fly no further; piercing talons; hopeless of their lives, It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, 4. Sh. All's W. 1. 1. Herrick, Aph. 320. When fears admit no hope of safety, then coward Farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear; Evil, be thou my good! All hope is lost Ib. 229. Milton, P. L. IV. 108. reception into grace; what worsef For where For men as resolute appear no hope is left, is left no fear. Milton, P. R. 111. 285. And those they fled like lions rout. Butler, Hud. 3, 111. 27. |