Chapter DOOR to DREAMERS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

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

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act I. Scene 5. (Lucio to Isabella.)

DOVE.—The dove returning bore the mark
Of earth restored to the long labouring ark,
The relics of mankind, secure of rest,
Oped every window to receive the guest,
And the fair bearer of the message bless’d.

Dryden.—To Her Grace of Ormond, Line 70.

The dove was twice employ’d abroad, before
The world was dried, and she return’d no more.

Ibid.—Line 99.

DOVE-COTE.—Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
Flutter’d your Volcians in Corioli:
Alone, I did it.

Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act V. Scene 5.

DOWN.—He that is down needs fear no fall;
He that is low no pride.

Bunyan.—Pilgrim’s Progress, Part II.

DREAM.—If ever I did dream of such a matter, abhor me.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 1. (Iago to Roderigo.)

DREAMERS.—1. Dreamers often lie. 2. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. 1. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 4. (Mercutio and Romeo.)

DREAMERS.—And mourn, in lamentation deep,
How life and love are all a dream.

Burns.—The Lament, Verse 1.

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream still let me sleep.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act IV. Scene 1. (Sebastian.)

Like the dreams,
Children of night, of indigestion bred.

Churchill.—The Candidate, Line 784.

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

Dante.—Inferno, Canto XXVI. Line 7. Ben Jonson.—Love Restored, a song. Bruce.—Elegy, written in Spring, Verse 19.

A vision after midnight, when dreams are true.

Horace.—Book I. Sat. X. Page 179. Bohn’s Ed. by Buckley.

Towards dawn, the lamp now flickering, (at the time when true visions are wont to be seen.)

Ovid.—Epi. XIX, page 219. Bohn’s Ed. by Riley.

Like the dream
That o’ertook me at my waking hour,
This morn; and dreams they say are then divine.

Dryden.—Don Sebastian, Act IV. Scene 1.