Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Dominion.= Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. 576 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 261. =Doom.= What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? 577 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. =Doubt.= Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. 578 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. 579 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 5. |
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