Column.- Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.

POPE, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, lines 339, 340

Comb.-To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool.

SHAKESPEARE, Taming of the Shrew, i, 1

Come. Come in the evening, or come in the morning,
Come when you're looked for, or come without warning,
Kisses and welcome you'll find here before you,
And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you!
T. O. DAVIS, The Welcome, st. 1

That it should come to this!

Comfort.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 2

That comfort comes too late;

'Tis like a pardon after execution.1

SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VIII, iv, 2

Commandments.- Old as the Ten Commandments.

KIPLING, Cleared, st. 12

Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I'd set my ten commandments in your face.
SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VI, Part II, i, 3

Commerce. Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of

magic sails,

Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly
bales.
TENNYSON, Locksley Hall, lines 121, 122

Common.- I am not in the roll of common men.

SHAKESPEARE, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1
'Tis the common lot;

In this shape, or in that, has Fate entailed,
The mother's throes on all of woman born,
Not more the children than sure heirs of pain.

YOUNG, Night Thoughts, I, lines 238-241

a

Commonwealth.- An independent, peaceful, law-abiding,
well-governed, and prosperous commonwealth;
state without king or nobles;
a church without a
bishop;
a people governed by grave magistrates
which it had selected, and equal laws which it had
framed.

RUFUS CHOATE, Address before the New England
Association, December, 1843

"After dying all reprieve's too late."

DRYDEN, Song, "Fair, Sweet, and Young," line 18

Company.- Villainous company hath been the spoil of me. SHAKESPEARE, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 3

Comparisons. She and comparisons are odious.1

DONNE, Elegy VIII: The Comparison

Compass.
The feeling compass, navigation's soul.

That trembling vassal of the Pole,

BYRON, The Island, Canto i, st. 5

Watched the compass chase its tail like a cat at play
That was on the "Bolivar," south across the Bay.
KIPLING, Ballad of the Bolivar, st. 8

Complexion. Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,
To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.

SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, ii, 1

Compromise. They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

LOWELL, The Present Crisis, st. 9

Conclusion.- O most lame and impotent conclusion! SHAKESPEARE, Othello, ii, 1

But this denoted a foregone conclusion.

Confess.

Confess yourself to heaven;

Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;
And do not spread the compost on the weeds,
To make them ranker.

Ibid., iii, 3

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii,

I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing.

4

SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado about Nothing, iv, I Confidence. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.-WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM, Speech, January 14, 1766

Conflict. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.-W. H. SEWARD, Speech, October 25, 1858

Congenial. Congenial spirits part to meet again.

THOMAS CAMPBELL, Pleasures of Hope, ii, st. 29 Congress. So, wen one's chose to Congriss, ez soon ez he's

in it,

A collar grows right round his neck in a minnit,

An' sartin it is thet a man cannot be strict

In bein' himself, wen he gits to the Deestrict,

Fer a coat thet sets wal here in ole Massachusetts,
Wen it gits on to Washin'ton, somehow askew sets.
LOWELL, Biglow Papers, I, iv, lines 39-44

1 Comparisons are odorous.-SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 5

Conquer. Though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors.

THOMAS DEKKER, Old Fortunatus, i, 1

Conquered. I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,

The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife;

The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the
broken in heart,

Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and
desperate part.
W. W. STORY, Io Victis, st. I

Conscience.

That fierce thing

HOOD, Lamia, Scene vii

They call a conscience!1

I keep a conscience clear,

I've a hundred pounds a year,

And I manage to exist and to be glad, John Brown.

CHARLES MACKAY, John Brown, st. 4

What conscience dictates to be done,

Or warns me not to do,

This, teach me more than hell to shun,
That, more than heaven pursue.

POPE, The Universal Prayer, st. 4

Conscience is but [For conscience is] a word that cowards

use,

Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

SHAKESPEARE, King Richard III, v, 3
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has
with politics.
R. B. SHERIDAN, The Duenna, ii, 4

1 With his departing breath,

A form shall hail him at the gates of death,

The spectre Conscience,- shrieking through the gloom,
Man, we shall meet again beyond the tomb.

JAMES MONTGOMERY, The West Indies, iii, st. 10

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.

SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 1

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.

SHAKESPEARE, King Richard III, v, 3

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

STERNE, Tristram Shandy, II, xvii; Sermon xxvii Consent. And whispering “I will ne'er consent," consented. BYRON, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 117

Considering."I am pretty well, considering." Mrs. Pipchin always used that form of words. It meant, considering her virtues, sacrifices, and so forth.

DICKENS, Dombey and Son, xi

Consistency. He's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf;
But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,-
He's ben true to one party, an' thet is himself.
LOWELL, Biglow Papers, I, iii, st. 3

Constable.

Out-run the constable at last.

Constant.

Thou hast

BUTLER, Hudibras, I, iii, lines 1367, 1368

I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.

SHAKESPEARE, Julius Cæsar, iii, 1

Content. Happy the man that, when his day is done,
Lies down to sleep with nothing of regret
The battle he has fought may not be won
The fame he sought be just as fleeting yet;
Folding at last his hands upon his breast,
Happy is he, if hoary and forespent,

He sinks into the last, eternal rest,

Breathing these only words: "I am content."

EUGENE FIELD, Contentment, st. 1

Contentment.- The noblest mind the best contentment has. SPENSER, Faerie Queene, Canto i, st. 35

Conversation. When you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

HOLMES, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 45

Conversations, dull and dry,

Conversations.

Embellished with

- He said, and So said I.

COWPER, Conversation, lines 211, 212

Cook. 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, iv, 2

Cookery. But his neat cookery! he cut our roots

In characters,

And sauced our broths, as Juno had been sick
And he her dieter.

SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline, iv, 2

Cooks.

We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.

He may live without books, what is knowledge but
grieving?

He may live without hope,- what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love,- what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?
OWEN MEREDITH, Lucile, II, xix

Cooks must live by making tarts,
And wits by making verses.

PRAED, Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine, st. 2

Copies. We took him setting of boys' copies.

SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 2

Copper. All in a hot and copper sky,

The bloody sun, at noon,

Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the moon.

Corinth.

COLERIDGE, Ancient Mariner, lines 111-114

The khan and the pachas are all at their post;
The vizier himself at the head of the host.
When the culverin's signal is fired, then on;
Leave not in Corinth a living one-

A priest at her altars, a chief in her halls,

A hearth in her mansions, a stone on her walls.
God and the Prophet! Alla Hu!

Up to the skies with that wild halloo!

BYRON, Siege of Corinth, st. 22

Cormorant. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew,

Sat like a cormorant.1

MILTON, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 194-196

Cornishmen.- By Tre, Pol, and Pen2 ye may know CornishR. S. HAWKER, Gate Song of Stowe, st. 4

men.