When the last reader reads no more. 1440 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:  The Last Reader.

Stuff the head
With all such reading as was never read: 
For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it.
1441
POPE:  Dunciad, Bk. iv., Line 249.

=Realms.=

These are our realms, no limit to their sway,—­ Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. 1442 BYRON:  Corsair, Canto i., St. 1.

=Reason.=

I have no other but a woman’s reason;
I think him so, because I think him so.
1443
SHAKS.:  Two Gent. of V., Act i., Sc. 2.

Reason raise o’er instinct as you can, In this ’tis God directs, in that ’tis man. 1444 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. iii., Line 97.

I would make
Reason my guide.
1445
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:  Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus.

The confidence of reason give,
And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!
1446
WORDSWORTH:  Ode to Duty.

Indu’d
With sanctity of reason.
1447
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. vii., Line 507.

=Rebellion.=

Their weapons only
Seem’d on our side, but, for their spirits and souls,
This word, rebellion, it had froze them up,
As fish are in a pond.
1448
SHAKS.:  2 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 1.

Rebellion now began, for lack
Of zeal and plunder, to grow slack.
1449
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 31.

=Rebuff.=
    Then welcome each rebuff
    That turns earth’s smoothness rough,
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!
1450
ROBERT BROWNING:  Rabbi Ben Ezra.

=Rebuke.=

Forbear sharp speeches to her; She’s a lady
So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes,
And strokes death to her.
1451
SHAKS.:  Cymbeline, Act iii., Sc. 5.

=Reckoning.=

So comes a reck’ning when the banquet’s o’er, The dreadful reck’ning, and men smile no more. 1452 GAY:  What D’ ye Call It, Act ii., Sc. 9.

=Recollection.=

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. 1453 WORDSWORTH:  The Old Oaken Bucket.

=Reconciliation.=

Never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc’d so deep. 1454 MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. iv., Line 98.

=Records.=

In records that defy the tooth of time. 1455 YOUNG:  The Statesman’s Creed.

=Recreation.=

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,
And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?
1456
SHAKS.:  Com. of Errors, Act v., Sc. 1.

Of recreation there is none
So free as Fishing is alone;
All other pastimes do no less
Than mind and body both possess: 
    My hand alone my work can do,
    So I can fish and study too.
1457
IZAAK WALTON:  The Complete Angler. The Angler’s Song.