A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase By which such things are settled nowadays.

351 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto vi., St. 78.

=Cold.=

The cold in clime are cold in blood, Their love can scarce deserve the name.

352 BYRON: _Giaour,_ Line 1099.

For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.

353 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Coliseum.=

"While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the world."

354 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 145.

=Colossus.=

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

355 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Colors.=

I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colors of the rainbow live, And play i' th' plighted clouds.

356 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 298.

=Columbia.=

Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and child of the skies!

Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.

357 TIMOTHY DWIGHT: _Columbia._

=Column.=

Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.

358 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. iii., Line 339.

=Combat.=

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave!

359 CAMPBELL: _Hohenlinden._

=Comet.=

Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

360 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 707.

=Comfort.=

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'm past all comforts here but prayers.

361 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

=Commandments.=

Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.

362 SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Commentators.=

How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

363 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vii., Line 97.

=Commerce.=

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

364 GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 91.

=Communion.=

When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.

365 COWPER: _Charity,_ Line 435.

=Companions.=

Oh could I fly, I'd fly with thee!

We'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring.

366 JOHN LOGAN: _To the Cuckoo._

=Comparisons.=

When the moon shone, we did not see the candle; So doth the greater glory dim the less.

36 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!

368 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto i., St. 17.