Chapter 39

'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.

E.

EARNEST. 'At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest,' v. 288, n. 3.

EASIER. 'It is easier to write that book than to read it' (Goldsmith),