DISOBEDIENCE.—Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought
death into the world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the
blissful seat,
Sing Heavenly Muse.
Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 1.
DISPATCH.—You have made
The world your gallery, can dispatch a business
In some three minutes with
the antipodes,
And in five more, negotiate the globe over.
Ben Jonson.—The Fortunate Isles.
DISPLACED.—You have displac’d the mirth, broke the good meeting,
With most admir’d disorder.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Lady Macbeth to her Husband.)
DISPOSITION.—A truant disposition, good my lord.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (Horatio to Hamlet.)
I know our country disposition well.
Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Iago to Othello.)
DISPUTE.—Mal. Dispute it like a man.
Macd. I shall do so;
But I must also feel it as a man.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 3.
DISSENSION.—Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that
the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were
rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off.
Tom Moore.—The Light of the Harem, Vol. VII. Page 22.
But now our fates from unmomentous things
May rise like rivers out of little springs.
Campbell.—Theodric.
Great floods have flown from simple sources.
Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act II. Scene 1. (Helena to the King.)
DISSENSION.—Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun,
Scarce seen they rise, but gather as
they run.
Garth.—The Dispensary, Canto III. Line 184.
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,
We should agree, as angels do above.
Waller.—Divine Love, Canto III.
Civil dissension is a viperous worm
That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part I. Act III. Scene 1. (The King to Gloster and Winchester.)
DISTANCE.—’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Campbell.—Pleasures of Hope, Part I.