Chapter DELIBERATION to DETRACTION of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast, Verse 4.

DESPAIR.—Despair, sir, is a dauntless hero.

Holcroft.—The Road to Ruin, Act III. Scene 2.

DESPERATE.—Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev’d.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act IV. Scene 3. (The King.)

DESTINY.—Seek not to know what must not be reveal’d;
Joys only flow where Fate is most conceal’d:
Too busie Man wou’d find his Sorrows more,
If future Fortunes he shou’d know before;
For by that knowledge of his Destiny
He would not live at all, but always die.

Dryden.—The Indian Queen, Act III. Scene 1.

Marriage is ever made by destiny.

Chapman.—All Fools, Act V. Scene 1.

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act II. Scene 9. (Nerissa to Portia.) Farquhar—The Recruiting Officer, Act III. Scene 2. 1. You remember who encouraged me to love, and promis’d me his assistance? 2. Ay, while there was Hope, Frank, while there was Hope; but there’s no contending with one’s destiny.

Dryden.—Evening’s Love, Act II. Scene 1.

DETRACTION.—Mankind praise against their will,
And mix as much detraction as they can.

Young.—Night VIII. Line 494.

DETRACTION.—I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another’s fame.

Gay.—Fable XLV. Line 1.

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

Massinger.—The Guardian, Act I. Scene 1.