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=Warrior.=

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest,
With his martial cloak around him.
2028
CHARLES WOLFE: _Burial of Sir John Moore._

=Washington.=

Washington's a watchword such as ne'er
Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.
2029
BYRON: _Age of Bronze,_ St. 5.

=Water.=

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
2030
SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Till taught by pain,
Men really know not what good water's worth:
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,
Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth,
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,
You'd wish yourself where truth is--in a well.
2031
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto ii., St. 84.

=Wave.=

So gently shuts the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore.
2032
MRS. BARBAULD: _Death of the Virtuous._

A life on the ocean wave!
A home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave,
And the winds their revels keep!
2033
EPES SARGENT: _Life On the Ocean Wave._

=Way.=

Like one that had been led astray
Through the heav'n's wide, pathless way.
2034
MILTON: _Il Penseroso,_ Line 65.

=Weakness.=

If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?
All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,
With God or man will gain thee no remission.
2035
MILTON: _Sam. Agonistes,_ Line 831.

=Wealth.=

If thou art rich, thou art poor;
For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.
2036
SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

To purchase heaven, has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life, can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
2037
DR. JOHNSON: _To a Friend._

=Weeds.=

Have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
To the stern god of sea.
2038
MILTON: _Tr. of Horace,_ Bk. i., Ode 5.

=Welcome.=

So, you are very welcome to our house.
It must appear in other ways than words,
Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.
2039
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep,
And I could laugh; I am light and heavy: Welcome.
2040
SHAKS.: _Coriolanus,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Wheel.=

I wandered by the brookside,
I wandered by the mill;
I could not hear the brook flow,
The noisy wheel was still.
2041
RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES: _The Brookside._

=Wickedness.=

There is a method in man's wickedness,--
It grows up by degrees.
2042
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _A King and No King,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

=Widows.=

May widows wed as often as they can,
And ever for the better change their man;
And some devouring plague pursue their lives,
Who will not well be govern'd by their wives.
2043
DRYDEN: _Wife of Bath,_ Line 543.

=Wife.=

She is mine own:
And I as rich in having such a jewel,
As twenty seas, if all their sands were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
2044
SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.
2045
SHAKS.: _Mer. W. of W.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks,
Safest and seemliest by her husband stays,
Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
2046
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 267.

She is a bonnie wee thing,
This sweet wee wife o' mine.
2047
BURNS: _My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing._

The world well tried--the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
2048
N.P. WILLIS: _Lady Jane,_ Canto ii., St. 11.

=Wilderness.=

Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade.
2049
COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. ii., Line 1.

=Will.=

A weapon that comes down as still
As snowflakes fall upon the sod;
But executes a freeman's will,
As lightning does the will of God.
2050
JOHN PIERPONT: _A Word from a Petitioner._

=Willow.=

A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree;
Oh, willow, willow, willow!
With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee,
Oh, willow, willow, willow!
2051
THOMAS PERCY: _Willow, Willow, Willow._

=Wind.=

What wind blew you hither, Pistol?
Not the ill wind which blows none to good.
2052
SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

The wind is rising; it seizes and shakes
The doors and window-blinds and makes
Mysterious moanings in the halls;
The convent-chimneys seem almost
The trumpets of some heavenly host,
Setting its watch upon our walls!
2053
LONGFELLOW: _Christus, Abbot Joachim._

A gentle wind of western birth,
From some far summer sea,
Wakes daisies in the wintry earth.
2054
GEORGE MACDONALD: _Songs of the Spring Days._

A melancholy sound is in the air,
A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail
Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.
2055
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _A Rain Dream._

=Windows.=

Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.
2056
GRAY: _A Long Story._

=Wine.=

Wine makes Love forget its care,
And mirth exalts a feast.
2057
PARNELL: _Anacreontic, "Gay Bacchus, etc.",_ St. 2.

And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
2058
POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xiv., Line 520.

=Wing.=

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing
To waft me from distraction.
2059
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 85.

How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,
The morne not waking til she sings.
2060
JOHN LYLY: _Cupid and Campaspe,_ Act v., Sc. 1

=Winter.=

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
2061
SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad, with all his rising train,
Vapors, and clouds, and storms.
2062
THOMSON: _Seasons, Winter,_ Line 1.

But Winter has yet brighter scenes--he boasts
Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows;
Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods
All flushed with many hues.
2063
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _A Winter Piece._

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
2064
GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 171.

In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane
The redbreast looks in vain
For hips and haws,
Lo, shining flowers upon my window-pane
The silver pencil of the winter draws.
2065
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _Winter._

=Wisdom.=

Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it.
2066
SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act iii., Sc. 11.

What is it to be wise?
'Tis but to know how little can be known;
To see all others' faults, and feel your own.
2067
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 260.

The stream from Wisdom's well,
Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
2068
BAYARD TAYLOR: _Wisdom of All._

And Wisdom's self
Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude.
2069
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 373.

=Wishes.=

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
2070
SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 4.

Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines.
2071
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 662.

=Wit--Wits.=

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,
That hath but one hole for to sterten to.
2072
CHAUCER: _Canterbury Tales, The Wif of Bathes Prologue,_ Line 6154.

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.
2073
HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 41.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
2074
DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel,_ Pt. i., Line 163.

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain,
Treat those of common parts with proud disdain.
2075
CRABBE: _Patron,_ Line 229.

Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit.
2076
GEORGE WITHER: _The Shepherd's Hunting._

=Witches.=

Midnight hags,
By force of potent spells, of bloody characters,
And conjurations, horrible to hear,
Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep,
And set the ministers of hell at work.
2077
ROWE: _Jane Shore,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Woe.=

But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
2078
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
2079
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night iii., Line 63.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
2080
BURNS: _Sweet Sensibility._

=Wolf.=

He's the symbol of hunger the whole earth through,
His spectre sits at the door or cave,
And the homeless hear with a thrill of fear
The sound of his wind-swept voice on the air.
2081
HAMLIN GARLAND: _The Gaunt Gray Wolf._

=Woman.=

Women are as roses; whose fair flower,
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.
2082
SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.

Honor to women! to them it is given
To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven.
2083
SCHILLER: _Honor to Women._

Nothing lovelier can be found
In woman, than to study household good,
And good works in her husband to promote.
2084
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 232.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man; we had been brutes without you.
2085
OTWAY: _Venice Preserved,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't;
And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on 't.
2086
_Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the
Dane John Field, Canterbury._ [_Examiner_: May 31, 1829.]

And yet believe me, good as well as ill,
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can
Its last best work, but forms a softer man.
2087
POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 269.

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected.
2088
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Irene._

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify
A woman; so she's good, what does it signify?
2089
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiv., St. 57.

Oh, woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!
2090
SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., St. 30.

The woman that deliberates is lost.
2091
ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

A woman mixed of such fine elements
That were all virtue and religion dead
She'd make them newly, being what she was.
2092
GEORGE ELIOT: _The Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. ii.

Till we are built like angels, with hammer, and chisel, and pen,
We will work for ourselves and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.
2093
RUDYARD KIPLING: _An Imperial Rescript._

=Wonder.=

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
2094
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto ii., St. 2.

=Woodland.=

Yon woodland, like a human mind,
Has many a phase of dark and light;
Now dim with shadows wandering blind,
Now radiant with fair shapes of light.
2095
PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE: _The Woodland._

=Woodman.=

Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I'll protect it now.
2096
GEORGE P. MORRIS: _Woodman, Spare that Tree._

=Woods.=

Fresh gales and gentle airs
Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings
Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub.
2097
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. viii., Line 508.

=Words.=

'Tis well said again,
And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
2098
SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts, never to heaven go.
2099
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Apt words have power to 'suage
The tumors of a troubled mind;
And are as balm to fester'd wounds.
2100
MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 184.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
2101
GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iii.

Words, however, are things.
2102
OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. i., Canto ii., St. 6.

=Wordsworth.=

Time may restore us in his course
Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force;
But where will Europe's latter hour
Again find Wordsworth's healing power?
2103
MATTHEW ARNOLD: _Memorial Verses._

=Work.=

Free men freely work:
Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
2104
MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. viii., Line 752.

Men must work, and women must weep.
2105
CHARLES KINGSLEY: _The Three Fishers._

=World.=

Why, then, the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
2106
SHAKS.: _Mer. W. of W.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care.
2107
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Fast by hanging in a golden chain,
This pendent world, in bigness as a star.
2108
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 1051.

This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow--
There 's nothing true but Heaven.
2109
MOORE: _This World is all a Fleeting Show._

I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
2110
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 113.

=Worm.=

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
2111
SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Worship.=

There may be worship without words.
2112
LONGFELLOW: _My Cathedral._

=Worth.=

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather or prunella.
2113
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 203.

=Wounds.=

Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.
2114
SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike.
2115
POPE: _Prol. to the Satires,_ Line 201.

=Wrath.=

Come not within the measure of my wrath.
2116
SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!
2117
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. i., Line 1.

=Wreaths.=

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments.
2118
SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Wrecks.=

Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon.
2119
SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

=Wretch.=

A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,
A living dead man.
2120
SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Writing.=

You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curs'd hard reading.
2121
SHERIDAN: _Clio's Prot._

Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
2122
SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: _Essay on Poetry._

=Wrong.=

Behold on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
2123
POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. viii., Line 367.

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
2124
WORDSWORTH: _Excursion,_ Bk. iii.

==X.==

=Xerxes.=

Xerxes did die,
And so must I.
2125
_From the New England Primer._

==Y.==

=Years.=

Jumping o'er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hourglass.
2126
SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act i., Chorus.

Years following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
2127
POPE: Satire vi., Line 72.

I sigh not over vanished years,
But watch the years that hasten by.
Look, how they come,--a mingled crowd
Of bright and dark, but rapid days.
2128
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Lapse of Time._

None would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain.
2129
DRYDEN: _Aurengzebe,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Yesterday.=

Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return!
2130
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Yew-Tree.=

Old yew, which graspest at the stones
That name the underlying dead,
Thy fibres net the dreamless head,
Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
2131
TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. ii., St. 1.

=Youth.=

For youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness.
2132
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 7.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
2133
SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn,
Like marigolds, toward the sunny side.
2134
JEAN INGELOW: _Four Bridges,_ St. 56.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
2135
LONGFELLOW: _Morituri Salutamus._

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,
Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.
2136
GRAY: _Bard,_ Pt. ii., St. 2, Line 9.

==Z.==

=Zeal.=

Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
2137
SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

His zeal
None seconded, as out of season judg'd,
Or singular and rash.
2138
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. v., Line 849.

INDEX TO AUTHORS.

The references which follow the Chronological Data are the _numbers_
of the Quotations in consecutive order from the respective Authors
under which they are placed.

Addison, Joseph.
b. Milston, Wiltshire, Eng., 1672; d. London, Eng., 1719.
--50, 393, 556, 629, 700, 713, 749, 766, 925, 969,
1078, 1583, 1814, 2091.

Akenside, Mark.
b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1721; d. London, Eng., 1770.
--1865, 1938.

Aldrich, James.
b. New York, 1810; d 1856.
--1481.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.
b. Portsmouth, N.H., 1836; d. 1907.
--238, 407, 771, 2009.

Allen, Elizabeth Akers.
b. Strong, Me., 1832; ....
--313.

Armstrong, John.
b. Liddesdale, Eng, 1709; d. London, Eng., 1779.
--1864.

Arnold, Sir Edwin.
b. London, 1832; d. 1904.
--498.

Arnold, Matthew.
b. Laleham, Middlesex, Eng., 1822; d. Eng, 1888.
--1537, 2103.

Aytoun, William Edmondstoune.
b. Fifeshire, 1813; d. 1865.
--1735.

Bailey, Philip James.
b. Nottingham, Eng, 1816; d. 1902.
--43, 79, 322, 531, 614, 746, 967, 1349, 1770, 1833.

Baillie, Joanna.
b. Lanarkshire, Scot, 1762; d. Hampstead, Eng., 1851.
--198.

Barbauld, Anna Laetitia.
b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1743; d. 1825.
--782, 1717, 2032.

Barrington, George.
b. Maynooth, Ireland, 1755; d. New South Wales at a great age.
--413.

Barry, Michael J.
_Circa_ 1815.
--1340.

Baxter, Richard.
b. Rowdon, Shropshire, Eng., 1615; d. 1691.
--1375.

Bayly, Thomas Haynes.
b. near Bath, Eng., 1797; d. 1839.
--218, 1335.

Beattie, James.
b. Laurencekirk Scot., 1735; d. Aberdeen, Scot., 1803.
--60, 485, 670, 837.

Beaumont and Fletcher.
Beaumont, Francis.
b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1586; d. 1615.
Fletcher, John.
b. Rye, Eng., 1576; d. London, Eng., 1625.
--19, 22, 204, 408, 559, 598, 1154,
1231, 1568, 1861, 1917, 2042.

Benserade, Isaac de.
b. in Upper Normandy, 1612; d. 1691.
--164.

Blair, Robert.
b. Edinburgh, Scot., 1699; d. Athelstaneford, Scot., 1747.
--85, 819, 836, 1651.

Booth, Barton.
b. Lancashire, Eng, 1681; d. 1733.
--1354.

Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth.
b. Fredericksvern, Norway, 1848; d. 1895.
--1028, 1162.

Bramston, James.
b. England; d. 1744.
--875.

Brown, John.
b. England, 1715; d. 1766.
--49, 431.

Brown, Tom.
b. Shropshire, Eng., 1663; d. 1704.
--562.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.
b. London, Eng., 1809; d. Florence, Italy, 1861.
--160, 196, 650, 778, 848, 887, 1006, 1039, 1073, 1296, 1373, 1659,
1709, 1733, 1968, 2104.

Browning, Robert.
b. Camberwell, Eng., 1812; d. 1889.
--65, 129, 251, 474, 519, 681, 747, 865, 993, 994, 996, 1086, 1123,
1188, 1222, 1228, 1312, 1344, 1351, 1450, 1667, 1710, 1822,
1825, 1901, 1950, 1957, 1967.

Bryant, William Cullen.
b. Cummington, Mass., 1794; d. New York, 1878.
--234, 240, 317, 627, 697, 725, 758, 851, 906,
1155, 1246, 1277, 1321, 1445, 1604, 1663, 1793, 1819, 1951,
1962, 2055, 2063, 2128.

Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton [Baron Lytton].
b. London, Eng., 1803; d. Torquay, France, 1873.
--1323.

Bunn, Alfred.
b. England; d. 1860.
--888.

Bunyan, John.
b. Elstow, Eng., 1628; d. London, Eng., 1688.
--664, 1383.

Burns, Robert.
b. Ayr, Scot., 1759; d. Dumfries, Scot., 1796.
--20, 208, 222, 242, 552, 588, 592, 604, 694, 773, 783, 954, 964, 986,
1080, 1095, 1106, 1109, 1129, 1147, 1193, 1345, 1435, 1588,
1599, 1600, 1642, 1704, 2047, 2080.

Butler, Samuel.
b. Worcestershire, Eng., 1612; d. London, Eng., 1680.
--39, 153, 236, 303, 305, 405, 423, 549, 566, 574,
615, 799, 972, 992, 1014, 1110, 1209, 1271, 1284, 1334, 1347,
1394, 1405, 1449, 1496, 1504, 1510, 1557, 1585, 1682, 1705,
1811, 1852, 1858, 1886, 1932, 2019.

Byron, George Gordon, Lord.
b. London, Eng., 1788; d. Missolonghi, Greece, 1824.
--31, 59, 62, 116, 133, 148, 169, 176, 209, 315, 351, 352, 354,
368, 388, 419, 451, 460, 469, 470, 486, 506, 511, 534, 537, 553, 582,
594, 612, 619, 651, 677, 734, 748, 751, 787, 813, 841, 842, 843, 850,
878, 879, 898, 908, 910, 995, 1059, 1075, 1087, 1115, 1131, 1133,
1166, 1221, 1229, 1232, 1251, 1275, 1303, 1337, 1391, 1407,
1419, 1442, 1498, 1506, 1522, 1529, 1538, 1556, 1563, 1573,
1575, 1580, 1596, 1601, 1620, 1621, 1625, 1668, 1672, 1679,
1686, 1688, 1716, 1718, 1731, 1751, 1792, 1794, 1818, 1847,
1851, 1862, 1884, 1897, 1910, 1920, 1935, 1979, 1993, 1994,
2018, 2025, 2029, 2031, 2059, 2089, 2094, 2110.

Campbell, Thomas.
b. Glasgow, Scot., 1777; d. Boulogne, France, 1844.
--142, 149, 359, 570, 715, 723, 933, 1243, 1390,
1541, 1584, 1593, 1694, 1703, 1741, 1877.

Canning, George.
b. London, Eng., 1770; d. Cheswick, Eng., 1827.
--729.

Carey, Henry.
b. 1663; d. Coldbath-Fields, Eng., 1743.
--349.

Carlyle, Thomas.
b. Ecclefechan, Scot., 1795; d. Chelsea, near London, Eng., 1881.
--1090, 1150.

Cary, Alice.
b. near Cincinnati, O., 1820; d. New York City, 1871.
--536, 1262.

Cary, Phoebe.
b. near Cincinnati, O., 1824; d. New York City, 1871.
--646.

Chapman, George.
b. Hitchin, Eng, 1557; d. London, Eng., 1634.
--658.

Chatterton, Thomas.
b. Bristol, Eng, 1752; d. London, Eng., 1770.
--1136.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.
b. London, Eng., 1328; d. 1400.
--40, 104, 1647, 1853, 1960, 2072.

Chorley, Henry Fothergill.
b. 1808; d. 1872.
--1268.

Churchill, Charles.
b. Westminster, Eng., 1731; d. Boulogne, France, 1764.
--98, 100, 135, 530, 698, 703, 874, 978, 1713, 1749.

Clemmer, Mary.
b. Utica, N.Y., 1839; d. 1884.
--676.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.
b. Devonshire, Eng., 1772; d. London, Eng., 1834.
--71, 143, 282, 395, 465, 484, 599, 708, 728,
979, 1138, 1227, 1336, 1372, 1379, 1431, 1473, 1507, 1561, 1673.

Collins, William.
b. Chichester, Eng., 1720; d. Chichester, Eng., 1756.
--227, 928, 1035, 1239.

Colman, George [the younger].
b. 1762; d. London, Eng., 1836.
--971.

Congreve, William.
b. Bardsey, Eng., 1670; d. London, Eng., 1729.
--185, 775, 1237, 1867, 1926.

Cook, Eliza.
b. London, Eng., 1817; d. 1889.
--1747.

"Cornwall, Barry."
_See_ PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER.

Cowley, Abraham.
b. London, Eng., 1618, d. Chertsey, Eng., 1667.
--479, 786.

Cowper, William.
b. Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, Eng., 1731; d. 1800.
--30, 102, 146, 175, 365, 403, 412, 586, 591,
656, 739, 762, 868, 889, 914, 960, 1036, 1079, 1201, 1393, 1401, 1404,
1437, 1466, 1475, 1571, 1637, 1723, 1752, 1759, 1799, 1916, 1931, 1937,
1965, 1988, 1990, 2004, 2024, 2049.

Crabbe, George.
b. Aldborough, Eng., 1754; d. Trowbridge, Eng., 1832.
--44, 205, 330, 379, 428, 1382, 1412, 1515, 1576, 1617, 1702, 1880, 2075.

Cranch, Christopher Pearse.
b. Alexandria, Va., 1813; d. 1892.
--1903.

Crashaw, Richard.
b. London, Eng., about 1616; d. Italy, about 1650.
--541, 814.

Croly, George.
b. Dublin, Ireland, 1780; d. 1860.
--1261.

Dana, Richard Henry.
b. Cambridge, Mass., 1787; d. Boston, Mass., 1878.
--1773.

Dante, Alighieri.
b. Florence, Italy, 1265; d. Ravenna, 1321.
--936.

Darwin, Erasmus.
b. Newark, Eng., 1731; d. Derby, Eng., 1802.
--1168.

Defoe, Daniel.
b. London, Eng., 1661; d. London, Eng., 1731.
--384, 1300.

De L'Isle, Joseph Rouget.
b. Lons-le Saunice, France, 1760; d. 1836.
--807.

Dickens, Charles.
b. Landport, near Portsmouth, Eng., 1812; d. Gadshill,
near Rochester, Eng., 1870.
--997.

Donne, John, D.D.
b. London, Eng., 1573; d. London, Eng., 1631.
--1821.

Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley.
b. Charleston, S.C., 1825; ....
--1493, 1830.

Drake, Joseph Rodman.
b. New York City, 1795; d. New York City, 1820.
--714, 761.

Dryden, John.
b. Aldwinkle, Eng., 1631; d. London, Eng., 1701.
--158, 226, 252, 337, 344, 504, 680, 776, 790, 858, 860,
871, 884, 1179, 1234, 1299, 1346, 1358, 1362, 1365, 1425, 1460, 1549,
1577, 1610, 1764, 1772, 1836, 1909, 1921, 1948, 1964, 1984, 2043, 2074,
2129.

Dwight, Timothy.
b. Northampton, Mass., 1752; d. New Haven, Conn., 1817.
--357.

Dyer, Sir Edward,
b. Sharpham, near Glastonbury, _circa_ 1540; d. 1607.
--331, 1190.

Dyer, John.
b. 1700; d. 1758.
--1053.

Eliot, George [Marian Evans Cross],
b. Warwickshire, Eng., 1820; d. London, Eng., 1880.
--862, 1091, 1256, 1276, 1350, 1478, 1534, 1779, 1832, 1944, 1992, 2092,
2101.

Elliott, Ebenezer.
b. Masborough, Eng., 1781; d. near Barnsley, Eng., 1849.
--1046.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
b. Boston, Mass., 1803; d. Concord, Mass., 1882.
--105, 161, 191, 239, 247, 249, 448, 605, 759,
765, 791, 817, 944, 1428, 1648, 1678, 1748.

Everett, Edward.
b. Dorchester, Mass., 1794; d. 1865.
--912.

Faber, Frederick William.
b. Durham, Eng., 1814; d. Brompton, Eng., 1863.
--1516.

Falconer, William.
b. Edinburgh, Scot., 1732; shipwrecked near Cape Good Hope, 1769.
--1059, 1675.

Fenner, Cornelius G.
b. 1822; d. 1847.
--1609.

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