And after him came next the chill December: Yet he, through merry feasting which he made And great bonfires, did not the cold remember; His Saviour's birth his mind so much did glad.

510 SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. vii., Canto vii., St. 41.

As soon Seek roses in December, ice in June.

511 BYRON: _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,_ Line 75.

=Decency.=

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

512 EARL OF ROSCOMMON: _Essay on Translated Verse_; Line 113.

=Decision.=

If it were done, when 't is done, then 't were well It were done quickly.

513 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 7.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

514 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Present Crisis._

=Deeds.=

And with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.

515 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 393.

Oh! 't is easy To beget great deeds; but in the rearing of them-- The threading in cold blood each mean detail, And furze brake of half-pertinent circumstance-- There lies the self-denial.

516 CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Deep.=

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies, Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

517 GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 282.

=Defeat.=

Such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep, With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

518 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 993.

=Defect.=

So may a glory from defect arise.

519 ROBERT BROWNING: _Deaf and Dumb._

=Defence.=

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

520 MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 560.

=Defiance.=

I do defy him, and I spit at him; Call him a slanderous coward, and a villain: Which to maintain, I would allow him odds; And meet him, were I tied to run a-foot, Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps.

521 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Deity.=

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.

522 THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 556.

=Dejection.=

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

523 WORDSWORTH: _Resolution and Independence,_ St. 4.

=Delay.=

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

524 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life.

525 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night i., Line 390.

=Deliberation.=

Deep on his front engraven, Deliberation sat, and public care.

526 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 300.

=Delight.=

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.

527 WORDSWORTH: _She was a Phantom of Delight._

=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.

528 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.