DEITY-continued.

DEITY-DELAY.

Let no presuming impious railer tax
Creative Wisdom, as if aught was form'd
In vain, or not for admirable ends.

Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce

His works unwise, of which the smallest part

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Exceeds the narrow vision of his mind? Thomson, Summer.
Hail, source of being! universal soul

Of heaven and earth! essential presence, hail!

To Thee I bend the knee; to Thee my thoughts

Continual climb; who, with a master hand,

Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd.
A Deity believed, is joy begun ;
A Deity adored, is joy advanced;
A Deity beloved, is joy matured.
Each branch of piety delight inspires.

Nature

Never did bring forth a man without a man;
Nor could the first man, being but
Be the maker of himself; so of necessity
The passive subject, not the active mover,
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
Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing,
And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.

Thou dread source,

Cowper, Task, v. 511.

Prime, self-existing cause and end of all
That in the scale of being fill their place;

Above

Our

human region or below,

Set and sustain'd. Thou, thou alone, O, Lord,

Art

everlasting!

Wordsworth.

DELAY-see Decision, Procrastination, Promptitude, Time.
Shun delays, they breed remorse,
Take thy time, while time is lent thee;
Creeping snails have weakest force;
Fly their fault, lest thou repent thee.
Good is best when soonest wrought,
Lingering labours came to nought.

Hoist

up

Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure;
Seek not time, when time is past,

sail while gale doth last,

Robert Southwell.

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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.III.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.

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.
That we would do,

Sh. H. VIII. IV. 2.

Sh. Troil. III. 3.

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;

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And then this should" is like a spendthrift sigh,
That hurts by easing.

;

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer
Next day the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life.
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool,
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty, chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,
In all the magnanimity of thought;

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. T. 1.

Our greatest actions, or of good or evil,
The hero's and the murderer's, spring at once
From their conception: Oh! how many deeds
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.

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Denham.

Milton, P. L. 11. 302.

Dryden.

She was his care, his hope, and his delight,
Most in his thought, and ever in his sight.

DELUSION.

For love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul
That not your trespass but my madness speaks:
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place :
Whiles rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen.

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;
Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit,

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

On greatness' favour, dream, as I have done;

Wake, and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve
Many dream not to find, neither deserve,
And yet are steep'd in favours.

I hate dependence on another's will,

Sh. Cymb. v. 4.

Which changes with the breath of ev'ry whisper, the sky and weather with the winds:

Just

as

Nay with the winds, as they blow east or west,

To make his temper pleasant or unpleasant. Crown, Amb States.

DEPORTMENT.

What's a fine person, or a beauteous face,

Unless deportment gives them decent grace f
Blest with all other requisites to please,
Some want the striking elegance of ease;

The curious eye their awkward movement tires;

They

seem like puppets let about by wires.

Churchill, Rosciad, 712.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides,
The Derby Dilly, carrying three insides,

One in each corner sits, and lolls at ease,

With folded arms, propp'd back, and outstretch'd knees; While the press'd bodkin, punch'd and squeezed to death, 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.xv.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,

But when they're just they're arm'd, and nothing daunts Middleton, Mad World my Masters.

them.

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,

Which we must pay, and wait for the reward.

Sir Robert Howard, Great Favourite.

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.

DESPAIR.

I am one, my liege,

Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world
Have so incens'd, that I am reckless what

I do, to spite the world.

O! that this too, too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd

His canon

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Sh. Macb. II. 1.

'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!

There's nothing in this world can make me joy :
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

If thou didst but consent

Sh. Ham. 1. 2.

Sh. K. John, III. 4.

To this most cruel act, do but despair;
And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread
spider twisted from her womb
Will serve to strangle thee.

That ever

Sh. K. John, iv. 3.

So cowards fight, when they can fly no further;
So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;
So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,

Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers. Sh. H. VI. 3, 1. 4.

It were all one,

That I should love a bright particular star,
And think to wed it.

Sh. All's W. 1. 1.

Herrick, Aph. 320.

When fears admit no hope of safety, then
Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
Despair takes heart, when there's no hope to speed;
Coward then takes arms, and does the deed.

The

Farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear;
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good!

Of my reception into

All hope is lost

grace;

Ib. 229.

Milton, P. L. IV. 108.

what worse?

For where no hope is left, is left no fear. Milton, P. R. 111. 285.

For men as resolute appear

With too much, as too little fear;

And, when they're out of hopes of flying,
Will run away from death, by dying,
Or turn again to stand it out,

And those they fled like lions rout.

Butler, Hud. 3, III. 27.