Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Downward to climb and backward to advance. Pope.

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit. Macb., iii. 2.

Do you think the porter and the cook have no 45 anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Emerson.

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. Napoleon.

Dramatis personæ—Characters represented.

Draw thyself from thyself. Goethe.

Dream after dream ensues, / And still they dream that they shall still succeed / And still are disappointed. Cowper.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no 50 end to illusion. Emerson.

Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. / When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes; / Compounds a medley of disjointed things, / A mob of cobblers and a court of kings; / Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad; / Both are the reasonable soul run mad. Dryden.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. Amiel.