A throne which the eagle is glad to resign DELAY. Defer no time: Delays have dangerous ends. DELICACIES not in Nature. Our delicacies are fantastic: they are not in nature! that beggar walks over the sharpest of these stones barefooted, while I have lost the most delightful dream in the world from the smallest of them happening to get my shoe. The Man of Feeling.-HENRY MACKENZIE. DELIGHTS. into The little bee to fight doth like a champion spur, Because, not for herself, she feels her tribe in her; Because so sweet her work, so sharp must be her sting; The earth hath no delight unscourged of suffering. Strung Pearls.—RUCKERT. Who is thy deadliest foe ?—An evil heart's desire, Which hates thee still the worse, as thy weak love mounts higher. DESIRE. How to conquer Strung Pearls.—RUCKERT. It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. Maxims, XCVIII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT. DESIRES never realised. It never yet happened to any man since the beginning of the world, nor ever will, to have all things according to his desire, or to whom fortune was never opposite and adverse. DESTINY. Anatomy of Melancholy.-ROBERT BURTON. Well,-Heaven's above all; and there be souls. must be saved, and there be souls that must not be saved. Othello, Act II. Scene III.-SHAKSPERE. DETERMINATION. Illustration of a fixed Let them pull all about mine ears; present me DEVOTION. Coriolanus, Act III. Scene II.-SHAKSPERE. Pure Yet Faith's pure hymn, beneath its shelter rude, A Metrical Essay, Part III.-O. W. HOLMES. DIET. A Miser's At home he lived Like a cameleon; suck'd the air of misery; And be a month in fasting out that fever. The Spanish Curate, Act IV. Scene v. DIFFICULTIES. Thus it has been the glory of the great masters in all the arts to confront and to overcome; and when they had overcome the first difficulty, to turn it into an instrument for new conquests over new difficulties; thus to enable them to extend the empire of science, and even to push forward beyond the reach of their original thoughts the landmarks of the human understanding itself. Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a paternal guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. Reflections on the Revolution in France. DISEASES. Often have I thought with myself what disease I would be best contented to die of. None please me. The stone, the colic, terrible as expected, intolerable when felt. The palsy is death before death. The consumption, a flattering disease, cozening men into hope of long life at the last gasp. Some sicknesses besot, others enrage men, some are too swift, and others are too slow. Good thoughts in Worse Times, I. DISHONESTY. Double THOMAS FULLER. Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others: honest men know, and confess them. Maxims, CXXXII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT. DISTANCE. Enchantment of Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear The Pleasures of Hope, Part I. Line 5. DOG. A Master's Devotion to his I'll be sworn, I have sat in the stocks for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had been executed: I have stood on the pillory for geese he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for't. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV. Scene IV. SHAKSPERE. I leave the broadcloth,-coats and all the rest, And always err upon the sober side. Urania.-O. W. HOLMES. DRESS. Description of a Lady's Christabel.-SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. DRINKING. A Drunkard's Proposal respecting Let's never leave off now, Whilst we have wine and throats! Let's end it all! dispatch that, we'll send abroad, And purchase all the wine the world can yield, And drink it off; then take the fruits o' the earth, |