=Dispute.=

'T is strange how some men's tempers suit, Like bawd and brandy, with dispute, That for their own opinions stand fast, Only to have them claw'd and canvass'd.

566 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 1.

=Dissension.=

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts, That no dissension hinder government.

567 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act iv., Sc. 6.

=Dissimulation.=

Away and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

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

=Dissolution.=

Like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.

569 SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Distance.=

'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

570 CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. i., Line 7.

Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

571 WORDSWORTH: _Personal Talk,_ St. 2.

=Distrust.=

The saddest thing that can befall a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

572 ALEXANDER SMITH: _A Life Drama,_ Sc. 12.

=Divinity.=

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

573 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

=Doctrine.=

And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks.

574 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 205.

=Dogs.=

Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All by the name of dogs.

575 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Dominion.=

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

576 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 261.

=Doom.=

What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

577 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Doubt.=

Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst.

578 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.

579 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

=Drama.=

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.

580 DR. JOHNSON: _Pro. On Opening Drury Lane Theatre._

=Dreams.=

I talk of dreams Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; Which is as thin of substance as the air; And more inconstant than the wind.

581 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

Dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.

582 BYRON: _Dream,_ St. 1.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes Are something more than fictions.

583 HOOD: _The Haunted House._

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

584 TENNYSON: _The Two Voices,_ St. cxxvii.