Ah mild and gall-less dove, Which dost the pure and candid dwelling love, Still canst thou call it white ?-COWLEY. 45 Most plants, though green above ground, maintain their original white below it according to the candour of their seminal pulp.-W. BROWN (1660). Mitford's History of Greece. Mr. Mitford has almost succeeded in mounting unperceived by those whose office it is to watch such aspirants, to a high place amongst historians; he has taken a seat on the dais without being challenged by a single seneschal; had he been reviewed by candid severity when he published his first volume, his work would either have deserved its reputation or would never have obtained it.-MACAULAY. Capable. Once, susceptible, able to hold. Thou shalt be punished for thus frighting me, SHAKSPEARE, King John, iii. 1. The convex or out-bowed side of a vessel will hold nothing; it must be the hollow and depressed part that is capable of any liquor.-Bishop HALL. Monsieur Dumont. With every right to the head of the board, he took the lowest room and well deserved to be greeted with 'Friend, go up higher.' Though no man was more capable of achieving for himself a separate and independent renown he attached himself to others, he laboured to raise their fame.-— MACAULAY. Capacity. Used in the sense of a commission or authority. Wherefore I commanded him to accept their capacities from the King's Grace with as much favor as the Bishop of Rouen's capacities before had been received.-R. DEVEREUX to Lord Cromwell. Mr. Hallam says most truly that, though it is impossible to rank Cromwell with Napoleon as a General, yet his exploits were as much above the level of his contemporaries, and more the effects of an original uneducated capacity. Bonaparte was 46 CAPITULATE-CAROL. trained in the best military schools, Cromwell never look'd on war till he was more than forty years old-he never fought a battle, without gaining a victory.—MACAULAY. Capitulate. Formerly, to settle heads of agreement, and so to combine: now, only to make terms of peace or surrender. The Archbishop's Grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer, SHAKSPEARE, I Henry IV, iii. 2. Hath our familiar commercé and trading, Almost as with our equals, taught you to Dispute our actions? Have you quite forgot What we are, and you ought to be? Shall vassals That the capitulation of Limerick had been construed in a manner far too favorable to the conquered race, and that the King had suffered his compassion to lead him into the error of showing indulgence to many who could not pretend that they were within the terms of the capitulation.—MACAULAY. Careful. Full of care or distress: now, cautious, painstaking. Break we our pipes that shrilled as loud as larks, All night he watch and warden keeps Never his careful head on resting pillow sleeps. FLETCHER. Horace Walpole. His portraitures do not belong to an Historical Gallery but they have their price as a portfolio of brilliant caricatures by an artist who might have done much better. He illustrates his knowledge of the world by anecdotes and witticisms, by the authority of his own imperial opinion; unlike Rochefoucauld who dissects and analyses, he does not aim at careful and scrupulously accurate delineations.-Caxtoniana. Carol. Used by some old writers for a dance, like the French carolle now only a song or hymn. For she was wont in every place, Then mightest thou Karoles sene And folk dance and merry bene.—CHAUCER. He chanc't to spy a sort of shepherd groomes, Playing on pipes and caroling apace, The whiles their beastes there in the budded broomes, Beside them fed.-SPENSER, Fairy Queen. 47 They kept up the Christmas carol, sent true love knots on Valentine morning, eat pancakes on Shrovetide, showed their wit on the first of April, and religiously crack'd nuts on Michaelmas eve.-GOLDSMITH. Carp. Formerly, to jest, recite or relate now, to cavil or find fault. Merry it is in hall, to hear the harpe The minstrels sing, the Jogeleurs carpe.-CHAUCER. With that a Clerk kneeled down and carped these words.PERCY. Trial of Lord Strafford. Sir David Foulis, whom he had crushed, came to depose. Strafford carped against this witness as one who had quarrelled with him. Maynard produced against him his own decree, subscribed by his own hand, that whereas Sir David had brought before him the same exception against a witness, he had decreed that a witness for the King and Commonwealth must be received, notwithstanding any private quarrels. When he saw his own hand, he said no more but in a jesting way, 'You are wiser, my Lord Steward, than to be ruled by any of my actions as patterns.'-Journal of Robert Baillie. Cart. Used for a chariot. The sun his cart hath faire and well In which he sette.-GOWER. The statue of Mars upon a carte stood armed.-CHAUCER. Strew'd plenty from his cart divine.-DRYDEN. 48 CARVE-CASSOCK. I was introduced by Rogers to Madame D'Arblay, the celebrated authoress of Evelina and Cecilia-an elderly lady with no remains of personal beauty, but with a simple gentle manner. She told me she had wished to see two persons-myself of course being one, and George Canning. This was really a compliment to be pleased with, a nice little handsome pat of butter made up by a neat-handed Phyllis of a dairy maid, instead of the grease fit only for cart-wheels.-Sir W. SCOTT. Carve. Not always confined to cutting meat, stone, or wood. Natheless hands of man hadden kerve that cloth. CHAUCER. Or they will buy the sheep forth of the cote, Or they will carve the shepherd's throat.-SPENSER. We think that government should be organised solely with a view to its main end, and that no part of its efficiency should be sacrificed to promote any other end however excellent. A blade which is designed both to shave and carve will certainly not shave so well as a razor, or carve so well as a carving-knife.MACAULAY. Cassock. well as a priest. Once, a vestment worn by a soldier as He will never come within reach of a cassock or a musket-rest again.-B. JONSON. But when Ulysses Again shall greet us, he shall put thee on Both coat and cassock.-CHAPMAN's Odyssey, Bk. xv. Luther's clear deep force of judgment, his force of all sorts, of silence, of tolerance and of modification, are very notable. Tolerance, a very genuine kind of tolerance: he distinguishes what is essential and what is not. A complaint comes to him that such and such a reformed preacher will not preach without a cassock. Well, answers Luther, what harm will a cassock do the man? Let him have a cassock to preach in, let him have three cassocks if he finds benefit in them-CARLYLE. CAST-CEREMONIES. Cast. To cast in the mind, to contrive. 49 Weak wretch, I wrapt myself in Palmer's weed, Inconsistent Metaphors. There is not anything in the world that may not be compared to several things if considered in several distinct lights, but the mischief is that an unskilful author shall run these metaphors so absurdly into one another that there shall be no simile, no agreeable picture, no apt resemblance, but confusion, obscurity, and noise. Thus have I known a hero compared to a thunder-bolt, a lion, and the seaall and each of them proper metaphors for impetuosity, courage, or force, but by bad management it hath so happened that the thunder-bolt hath overflowed its bank, the lion hath been darted through the skies, and the billows have rolled out of the Lybian desert; and yet every time that clashing metaphors are cast together this fault is committed.-ADDISON. Censure. condemnation. Once, merely an opinion: now, a Madam, and you my mother, will you go To give your censures in this weighty business? SHAKSPEARE, Richard III, ii. 2. I'll relate my censure what's our best.-CHAPMAN. All praise is dull except to the person praised, his wife, his grown-up daughters, and perhaps one or two intimate friends. Such is mankind. I cannot help it. If it were a question of voting, I should vote that laudation should be as amusing as censure, but it cannot be made so, and there is an end of the matter.-Sir A. HELPS. Ceremonies. Used by Shakspeare for superstitious fear of omens. Cæsar, I never stood on ceremonies, SHAKSPEARE, Julius Cæsar, ii. 2. Catholics (time of Elizabeth). The Catholic party were not always scrupulous about the usual artifices of an oppressed people, meeting force by fraud, and concealing their heartfelt E |