Dryden.-Waller was smooth, but DRYDEN taught to join
The varying verse, the full responding line,

The long majestic march, and energy divine.-POPE, Horace. Duke Humphrey.-A name used in an old expression, "To dine with DUKE HUMPHREY," that is, to have no dinner at all. This phrase is said to have arisen from the circumstance that a part of the public walks in Old Saint Paul's, London, was called Duke Humphrey's Walk, and that those who were without the means of defraying their expenses at a tavern were formerly accustomed to walk here in hope of procuring an invitation.

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It distinctly appears that one Diggory Chuzzlewit was in the habit of perpetually dining with DUKE HUMPHREY. So constantly was he a guest at that nobleman's table, indeed, and so unceasingly were his grace's hospitality and companionship forced, as it were, upon him, that we find him uneasy, and full of constraint and reluctance; writing his friends to the effect, that, if they fail to do so and so by bearer, he will have no choice but to dine again with Duke Humphrey.--DICKENS.

In the form Humfrey, it [Hunifred] was much used by the great house of Bohun, and through his mother, their heiress, descended to the ill-fated son of Henry IV., who has left it an open question whether dining with DUKE HUMPHREY alludes to the report that he was starved to death, or to the Elizabethan habit for poor gentility to beguile the dinner hour by a promenade near his tomb in old St. Paul's.-YONGE.

Dunce.-How much a DUNCE that has been sent to roam,

Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

COWPER, The Progress of Error.

Dust.-DUST to dust.-Common Prayer.

DUST thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.-Genesis iii. 19. Duties.-DUTIES are ours; events are God's.-CECIL.

Duty.-DUTY, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff, supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.--D. JERROLD.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the DUTY which lies nearest to thee,' which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer. --T. CARLYLE.

Every subject's DUTY is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.--SHAKESPERE, Henry V.

Such DUTY as the subject owes the prince,

Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

Ibid., Taming of the Shrew.

Dwarf.-A DWARF sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.-COLERIDGE, The Friend.

Dwarf.-A DWARF on a giant's shoulders sees further of the two. HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum.

Grant them but DWARFS, yet stand they on giant's shoulders, and may see the further.--FULLER, The Holy State.

Dyer.-My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the DYER'S hand. SHAKESPERE, Sonnets.

Dying.—DYING, bless the hand that gave the blow.

DRYDEN, Spanish Friar.

The air is full of farewells to the DYING.

LONGFELLOW, Resignation.

E.

Eagle. That EAGLE'S fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of his own,

Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

E. WALLER, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing.

So the struck EAGLE, stretched upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,

And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart.

BYRON, English Bards.

Ear.-One EARE it heard, at the other out it went.

CHAUCER, Troilus and Creseide.

Ears.-Heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.

Earth.-Alas! for love if thou art all,

2 Timothy, iv. 3.

And naught beyond, O EARTH!-HEMANS, Graves of a Household.
EARTH, lie gently on their aged bones.-S. MAY.

Lie heavy on him, EARTH! For he

Laid many a heavy load on thee.

EARTH has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

EARTH, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood.-SHELLEY, Alastor.

Epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh.

MOORE, Come ye Disconsolate.

R. MONTGOMERY, Woman.

SHAKESPERE, Henry IV.

EARTH, air, and ocean, glorious three.

Ease.--Shall I not take mine EASE in mine inn?

El Dorado-[Sp., the Golden Land.] A name given by the Spaniards to an imaginary country, supposed, in the 16th century, to be situated in the interior of South America, between the Rivers Orinoco and Amazon, and abounding in gold and all manner of precious stones. Expeditions were fitted out for the purpose of discovering this fabulous region; and, though all such attempts proved abortive, the rumours of its existence continued to be believed down to the beginning of the 18th century.

In short, the whole comedy is a sort of EL DORADO of wit, where the precious metal is thrown about by all classes as carelessly as if they had not the least idea of its value.--MOORE.

Elia.--A pseudonym under which Charles Lamb wrote a series of celebrated essays, which were begun in the "London Magazine," and were afterwards collected and published by themselves.

Comfort thee, O thou mourner, yet a while;

Again shall ELIA'S smile

Refresh thy heart, where heart can ache no more.
What is it we deplore ?-LANDOR.

He is also the true ELIA, whose essays are extant in a little volume published a year or two since, and rather better known from that name without a meaning than from anything he has done, or can hope to do, in his own.-C. LAMB, Autobiographical Sketch, 1827.

Emerald Isle.-A name sometimes given to Ireland on account of the peculiar bright green look of the surface of the country. It was first used by Dr. William Drennan (1754–1820), author of "Glendalough, and other poems." It occurs in his poem entitled "Erin."

When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood,
God blessed the green island: he saw it was good.
The EMERALD of Europe, it sparkled, it shone,
In the ring of this world the most precious stone.

Arm of Erin, prove strong: but be gentle as brave,
And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save:
Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile
The cause or the men of the EMERALD ISLE.

Empty.-My Lord St. Albans said that nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very EMPTY heads.

BACON, Apophthegms.

Often the cockloft is EMPTY in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.-T. FULLER, Andronicus.

End. The END must justify the means.-PRIOR, Hans Carvel.

Ends.-There's a divinity that shapes our ENDS,

Rough-hew them how we will-SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

Enemy. O that men should put an ENEMY in their mouths, to steal away their brains!-SHAKESPERE, Othello.

Enough.-ENOUGH is good as a feast.

RAY, Proverbs. BICKERSTAFF, Love in a Village.

Engineer. For 'tis the sport to have the ENGINEER
Hoist with his own petard.-SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.
England.-Be ENGLAND what she will,

With all her faults she is my country still.

CHURCHILL, The Farewell.

ENGLAND, with all thy faults I love thee still,
My country!-COWPER, Task.

Come the three corners of the world in arms,

And we shall shock them. Naught shall make us rue,
If ENGLAND to itself do rest but true.

SHAKESPERE, King John.

This ENGLAND never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.-Ibid.

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise;

This fortress, built by Nature for herself,
Against infection and the hand of war;
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,

Or as a moat defensive to a house,

Against the envy of less happier lands;

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this ENGLAND.

English.--Here will be an old abusing of

Ibid., Richard 11.

the king's ENGLISH. Ibid., Merry Wives.

Ensign. Th' imperial ENSIGN, which, full high advanc'd,
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Envy.-Base ENVY withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

THOMSON, The Seasons.

But, like a shadow, proves the substance true.

POPE, Essay on Criticism.

Envy.-ENVY, eldest-born of hell, embrued
Her hands in blood, and taught the sons of men
To make a death which nature never made,
And God abhorred; with violence rude to break
The thread of life, ere half its length was run,
And rob a wretched brother of his being.
With joy Ambition saw, and soon improved
The execrable deed. 'Twas not enough
By subtle fraud to snatch a single life;
Puny impiety! Whole kingdoms fell

To sate the lust of power: more horrid still,
The foulest stain and scandal of our nature,
Became its boast. One murder made a villain :
Millions, a hero. Princes were privileged

To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Ah! why will kings forget that they are men?
And men that they are brethren? Why delight
In human sacrifice? Why burst the ties

Of nature, that should knit their souls together

In one soft bond of amity and love?-Bishop PORTEOUS.

Epitaph. Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my EPITAPH: no man can write my epitaph.

Believe a woman or an EPITAPH,

ROBERT EMMETT.

Or any other thing that's false.-BYRON, English Bards.

Equity. EQUITY is a roguish thing: for law we have a measure, know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the Chancellor's conscience.-SELDEN, Table Talk.

Equivocation.-How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or EQUIVOCATION will undo us.-SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

To doubt the EQUIVOCATION of the fiend,

That lies like truth: Fear not, till Birnam wood
Do come to Dunsinane.--Ibid., Macbeth.

Err.-To ERR is human, to forgive divine.-POPE, Essay on Criticism.
Error.-ERRORS like straws upon the surface flow;

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

DRYDEN, All for Love.

It is much easier to meet with ERROR than to find truth; error

is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.GOETHE.