DANCING-MASTER. 'They teach the morals of a whore and the manners
of a dancing-master,' i. 266.
DARING. 'These fellows want to say a daring thing, and don't know
how to go about it,' iii. 347.
DARKNESS. 'I was unwilling that he should leave the world in total
darkness, and sent him a set' [of the _Ramblers_], iv. 90.
DASH. 'Why don't you dash away like Burney?' ii. 409.
DEATH. 'If one was to think constantly of death, the business of
life would stand still,' v. 316;
'The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death,' ii. 93;
'We are getting out of a state of death,' ii. 461;
'Who can run the race with death?' iv. 360.
DEBATE. 'When I was a boy I used always to choose the wrong side of
a debate,' i. 441.
DEBAUCH. 'I would not debauch her mind,' iv. 398, n. 2.
DEBAUCHED. 'Every human being whose mind is not debauched will
be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge,' i. 458.
DECLAIM. 'Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when
you are calculating, calculate,' iii. 49.
DECLAMATION. 'Declamation roars and passion sleeps' (Garrick),
i. 199, n. 2.
DEFENSIVE. 'Mine was defensive pride,' i. 265.
DESCRIPTION. 'Description only excites curiosity; seeing satisfies
it,' iv. 199.
_Desidiae_. '_Desidiae valedixi_,' i. 74.
DESPERATE. 'The desperate remedy of desperate distress,' i. 308, n. 1.
DEVIL. 'Let him go to some place where he is not known; don't let
him go to the devil where he is known,' v. 54.
DIE. 'I am not to lie down and die between them,' v. 47; 'It is a sad
thing for a man to lie down and die,' iii. 317;
'To die with lingering anguish is generally man's folly,' iv. 150, n. 2.
DIES. 'It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives,' ii. 106.
_Dieu_. '_Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer_'
(Voltaire), v. 47, n. 4.
DIFFERING. 'Differing from a man in doctrine was no reason why you
should pull his house about his ears,' v. 62.
DIGNITY. 'He that encroaches on another's dignity puts himself in his
power,' iv. 62;
'The dignity of danger,' iii. 266.
DINNER. 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything
than he does of his dinner,' i. 467, n. 2;
'Amidst all these sorrowful scenes I have no objection to dinner,'
v. 63;
'Dinner here is a thing to be first planned and then executed,'
v. 305;
'This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a
dinner to _ask_ a man to,' i. 470.
DIP. 'He had not far to dip,' iii. 35.
DIRT. 'By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen,'
ii. 82, n. 3.
DISAPPOINTED. 'He had never been disappointed by anybody but himself,'
i. 337, n. 1.
DISCOURAGE. Don't let us discourage one another,' iii. 303.
DISLIKE. 'Nothing is more common than mutual dislike where mutual
approbation is particularly expected,' iii. 423.
DISPUTE. 'I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another
man's son being hanged,' iii. 11.
DISSENTER. 'Sir, my neighbour is a Dissenter' (Sir R. Chambers), ii.
268, n. 2.
DISTANCE. 'Sir, it is surprising how people will go to a distance for
what they may have at home,' v. 286.
DISTANT. 'All distant power is bad,' iv. 213.
DISTINCTIONS. 'All distinctions are trifles,' iii. 355.
DISTRESS. 'People in distress never think that you feel enough,'
ii. 469.
DOCKER. 'I hate a Docker,' i. 379, n. 2.
DOCTOR. 'There goes the Doctor,' ii. 372.
DOCTRINE. 'His doctrine is the best limited,' iii. 338.
DOG. 'Ah, ah! Sam Johnson! I see thee!--and an ugly dog thou art,'
ii. 141, n. 2;
'Does the dog talk of me?' ii. 53;
'_He_, the little black dog,' i. 284;
'He's a Whig, Sir; a sad dog,' iii. 274;
'What he did for me he would have done for a dog,' iii. 195;
'I have hurt the dog too much already,' i. 260, n. 3;
'I hope they did not put the dog in the pillory,' iii. 354;
'I love the young dogs of this age,' i. 445;
'I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it,'
i. 504;
'I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head,' iv. 221;
'If you were not an idle dog, you might write it,' iii. 162;
'It is the old dog in a new doublet,' iii. 329;
'Presto, you are, if possible, a more lazy dog than I am,'
iv. 347, n. 1;
'Some dogs dance better than others,' ii. 404;
'The dogs don't know how to write trifles with dignity,' iv. 34, n. 5;
'The dogs are not so good scholars,' i. 445;
'The dog is a Scotchman,' iv. 98;
'The dog is a Whig,' v. 255;
'The dog was so very comical,' iii. 69;
'What, is it you, you dogs?' i. 250.
DOGGED. 'Dogged veracity,' iii. 378.
DOGGEDLY. 'A man may write at any time if he will set himself
doggedly to it,' i. 203; v. 40, 110.
DOGMATISE. 'I dogmatise and am contradicted,' ii. 452, n. 1.
DONE. 'What a man has done compared with what he might have
done,' ii. 129;
'What _must_ be done, Sir, _will_ be done,' i. 202.
DOUBLE. 'It is not every name that can carry double,' v. 295;
'Let us live double,' iv. 108.
DOUBTS. 'His doubts are better than most people's certainties' (Lord
Chancellor Hardwicke), iii. 205.
DRAW. 'Madam, I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can
draw for a thousand pounds' (Addison), ii. 256.
DRIFT. 'What is your drift, Sir?' iv. 281.
DRIVE. 'I do not now drive the world about; the world drives or
draws me,' iv. 273, n. 1;
'If your company does not drive a man out of his house, nothing
will,' iii. 315;
'Ten thousand Londoners would drive all the people of Pekin,'
v. 305.
DRIVING. 'You are driving rapidly _from_ something, or _to_ something,'
iii. 5.
DROPPED. 'There are people whom one should like very well to drop,
but would not wish to be dropped by,' iv. 73.
DROVES. 'Droves of them would come up, and attest anything for
the honour of Scotland,' ii. 311.
DROWNED. 'Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being
drowned,' v. 137.
DRUNK. 'Never but when he is drunk,' ii. 351;
'Equably drunk,' iii. 389;
'People who died of dropsies, which they contracted in trying to
get drunk,' v. 249;
'A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of
getting drunk,' iii. 389.
DUCKING-STOOL. 'A ducking-stool for women,' iii. 287.
DULL. 'He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others'
(Foote), iv. 178;
'He was dull in a new way,' ii. 327.
DUNCE. 'It was worth while being a dunce then,' ii. 84;
'Why that is because, dearest, you're a dunce,' iv. 109.