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The hints of critics have been taken, improvements everywhere adopted, but the original form of alphabetical subject quotation adhered to, as, although troublesome and much more expensive as regards printing, it was thought more suggestive and pleasant to scholars than the mere presentation of a mottled slice of each author. A supplement with some thousand quotations has been added, and these will be found, whether from Poet, Statesman, or Divine, to be " familiar ^ords.** An entirely new verbal index, nearly as fiill as a conoordanoe, has been 51?528 vj .'REFACE, made, and to afford space for it, the list of nearly a thou- sand English and foreign authors' names from whom we have cited has been taken away. In the first and second editions the compiler made grateful acknowledgement of the help he had received, the kind- ness of the public and the critics, and of the labours of others of which, as all compilers must, he had availed himself, although the first edition was by far the fullest dictionary of English quotation that had then appeared. Of that edition a literary contemporary declared that it was " worthy to take its place by the side of Rogefs Thesaurus on every scholarly author's desk." Certainly, if that were true, this edition, amended and much enlarged, is still more worthy, and that it is so the Public has to be thanked for the warm encouragement it has given the compiler in his humble but somewhat trying labours. ABIDE— ABSOLUTE. BIDE — Abide tctth me from mom till eve, For without thee I cannot live ; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without thee I dare not die. Keble, Christian Year, Evening Hymn, v. a. Above — Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.* Pope, 7m. Hor. bk. ii. ep. i. 1. m. Above — Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth. Milton, Comus, 1. s. Abra — Abra was ready ere I called her name ; And, though I called another, Abra came. Prior, Solomon, pt. ii. I. an. Abridgment — An abridgment of all that was pleasant in Goldsmith, On Garrick, Retaliation, 1. 94. Absence — In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. Ben Jonbon, Underwoods. Absence — Absence makes the heart grow fonder, f Havnes Bailey, Isle of Beauty. Absence — What vigour absence adds to love. Flatman, Weeping at Parting, Absent — Absent in body, but present in spirit. i Cor. r. t. Absolute — How absolute the knave is I We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. 8*. i. * Dryden, on the death of Lord Hastings, wrote, " Abore any Greek or Bomaa name." t " Though lost to sight, to mem'ry dear," which seems like the line of a song, has elnded as yet all searchers. " Friends, although absent, are still present."— CiCEHO, On friendship, c. vii. 2 ABSTRACT— ACROSS, Alfstract— -They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. Shaks. Handet, act ii. sc. t. Abundance — Out of^he abundance qfthe'heart the mouth speaketh. Matt. xii. 34. Abitse — ^Nor ax^ht do^^oo'tb'ut' etx-ain'd'from that fair use. Revolts from true birCh, stiXmhlihy onabltJ9e:- • Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. s. Accept — Accept a miracle instead of wit. See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ. Ascribed to Young in Mitford's Life. Accepted — Behold, now is the accepted time. 2 Cor. vi. 2. Accidents — Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. Accommodated — Accommodated ; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated ; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated ; which is an excellent thing. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. 2. Accoutred — Csesar said to me, * Darest thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood. And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word. Accoutred as I was, I plunged in. And bade him follow. Shaks. Julius Cczsar, act i. sc. 2. Aces — Gentlemen whose chariots roll only upon the four aces are apt to have a wheel out of order. Gibber and Vanbrugh, Provoked Husband, act ii. Aching — What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! How sweet their memory still ! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. Cowpee, Walking with God Acres — In those holy fields. Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. . Across — In after-dinner talk Across the walnuts and the wine. Tennyson, Miller's Daughter, ACT— ACTOR. t Act — Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part : there all the honour lies. Pope, Essay on Man, ep. ir. L ui. Acting — Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. SiLAis. Julius Casar, act ii. so. i. Action — You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draw out the harmony of the universe. Burke, Speeches. Action — What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving how express and admirable ! in action how like an angel I in apprehension how like a god ! Suaks. Hamlet, act ii. so. t. Action — ^Think that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done. Miscel. Brit. Mtts. Album. Action — With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. Suaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. i. Action — Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. Ibid, act iii. sc. s. Actions — Prodigious actions may as well be done By weaver's issue as by prince's son. Dryden, Absolom and Achitophel, part i. 1. «38. Actions — Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. Denuam, TTie Sophy. Actions — His actions speak much stronger than my pen. Churchill, Candidate, 1. loe. Actions — Only the actions qf the Just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. J. Shirley, Contention of Ajax and Ulysses, sc. i. Actor — He loved his friends — forgive this gushing tear; Alas ! I feel / am no actor here. Lyttleton, Prologue to Coriolanus by Thomsom. 4 ACTOR—ADORE. Actor — ^As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that follows next. Shaks. Richard II, act v. «c. ». Acts — That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth, Tintei-n Revisited, Acts — Our acts our angels are, or good or ill. Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. John Fletcher, Honest Man's Fortum. Ada — Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart. Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. i. Adam — ^TVhen Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentle-man ? Hume, Hist, of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8. Adam — Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. 323. Adam — Consideration, like an angel, came And whipp'd the ojffending Adam out of him. Shaks. K. Henry V, act i. sc. 1. Adam — In Adam's fall We sinned all. From the New England Primer. Adder — They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely, Ps. Iviii. 4, 6. Adieu — So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. W. Shenstone, a Pastoral, part i. Admired — You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admired disorder. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. Admitted — But thinks, admitted to that equal sky. His faithful dog shall bear him company. Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. m. Adore — We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe. And still adore the hand that gives the blow.* Pomfret, Verses to his Friend. • And dying bless the hand that gave the blow. Dbyden, Spanish Friar, act ii. sc. 1. ADORED^ ADVERSITY. $ Adored — As dreadful as the Sifanichean god. Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. CowpKR, Task, bk. v. Winter Morning Walk. Adorn — ^He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 221. Adorn — A poet, naturalist, and historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched nothing that he did not adorn.* Johnson, Epitaph on Goldsmith. Adulteries — Give me a look, give me a face. That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th* adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman, act i. sc. 1. Adversary — Oh . . . that mine adversary had unitten a book.f Job xxxi. 35. Adversary — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. i Peter v. s. Adversity — Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; J And this our life, exempt from public haunt. Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermona in stones, and good in everything. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 1. Adversity — A man I am, cross' d with adversity. Shaks. Tu}0 Gentleman of Verona, act iv. sc. i. Adversity — ^A wretched soul bruised with adversity. Shaks. Comedy of Errors, act ii. sc. i. • Nullum tetigit quod non omnvit. The epitaph written by Johnson is in Latin, and is given in Boswell's Life. ** Whatever he composed," said Johnson at another time, " he did better than any other man could." t Qnis mihi tribnat anditorem, ot desiderium menm andiat Omnipotens ; ft Ubrum scribat ipse qui judical. Billia Sac. Vulgatte EHitionis. The ■eaning is opposed to that ordinarily assigned to this quotation. I The foole toade hathe a faire stone in his head. John Lilie, Euphues, chap. i. bk. i 6 ADVERSITY-^AGE. Adversity — Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. s. Affection — ^Entire affection hateth nicer hands. Spenser, Fairy Queen, bk. i. can. viii. st. 40. Affliction — Now let us thank the eternal Power : convinced That Heaven hut tries our virtue hy affliction, That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days. John Brown, Barharossa, act v. sc. 3. Afric — From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afrids sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand. Heber, Missionary Hymn. Africa — ^A foutra for the world and worldlings base ! [ speak of Africa and golden joys. Shaks. Henry IV, part ii. act v. sc. 8. After — Duncan is in his grave ! After life* s fitful fever he sleeps well. Shaks. Mac. act iii. sc. 2. After — After death the Doctor. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. After — After me the deluge. Apres moi le deluge. Attributed to Mad. de Pompadour ; see Notes and Queries, 3rd S. p. 397. Agate-stone — 0, then, I see. Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman. Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. Shaks. Bomeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 4 Age — Just at the age 'tunxt boy and youth, When thought is speech and speech is truth. Scott, Marmion, can. ii. introd. Age — The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. Shaks. Meas.for Meets., act iii. sc. 1. Age — And He that doth the ravens feed. Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age I Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. s. A GE, 7 Agt — Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her mfinlte variety. Shaks. Antony and Cleopatra, act iLae. s. Age — The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade. For talking age and whispering lovers matle. Goldsmith, Deserted Village, I. u. Age — Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. Bkattib, Minstrel, v. S8. Age — His hair just grizzled. As in a green old age. Drtuen, (Edipus, act iii. sc. i. 4^0 — He toas not of an age, but for all time. Ben Jonson, To the Memory of Shakspeare. Age — In a good old age. Gen. xv. 18. Age — ^Therefore my age is as a lusty winter. Frosty, but kindly. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. u Age — ^The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. i. Age — ^The choice and ItUuter spirits of this age. Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act iii. sc. i. Age— See how the world its veterans rewards ! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards. PoPK, Moral Essays, ep. ii. 1. 243. Age — I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her (Marie Antoinette) with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. Burke, On the French Revolution. Age — How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ! Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 09. Age — Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of Time. Shaks. Henry IV, part ii. act i. sc. 2. Age — What find you better or more honourable than age 7 Take the pre-eminence of it in everything ; in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree. Shakeelt Marmio5, Antiquary, act ii. sc. 1. » A GE—A GES. Age — But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night. Shall lead thee to thy grave. Wordsworth, To a Young Lady, xxxvi. Age — Age shakes Athends towers, but spares gray Marathon. Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. st. ss. Age — She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age. Dryden, CEdipus, act iv. sc. i. Age — One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Scott, Old Mortality, vol. ii. chap. xxL Age — An age that melts in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away. Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 1. 293. Ages — Bnflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue ; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, a.nd famous to all ages. Milton, Tractate of Education. Ages — I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. TBtNYSON, Locksley Hall. Ages — Once, in the flight of a^es past, There lived a man. J. Montgombry, The Common Lot. Ages — One man in his time plays many parts. His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms : And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel. And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover. Sighing Uke furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress* eyebrow. Then a soldier. Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard ; Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel. Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice ; In fair round belly, with good capon lined. With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut. Full of wise saws and modem instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon; With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; AGES— AIR. m flis youthful hose well saved, a world too wide For his sljrunk shank ; and his big manly voice. Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all. That ends this strange, eventful liistory, Is second childishness and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. Ages — Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. Tbnnyson, Locksley Hall, Poems, p. r9. Age* — Such souls. Whose sudden visitations daze the world. Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. H. Taylor, Van Artevelde, act i. sc. 7. Agontf — [Death,] thou art terrible — the tear. The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony are thine. Halleck, Marco Bozzaris. Agree — Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is won- derful. Shebidan, The Critic, act il. sc. 2. Ahriman and Ormuzd — " I do honour to Ahrimanes." Thackeray. The first was the principle of evil; the second, that of good: the first is created, and will one day perish ; the second is eter- nal, and will eventually conquer in the conflict. Ancient Pers. Mythology. Aidenn — ^Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if, within the distant Aidenn,* It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels name Lenore. PoE, The Raven. Air — When he speaks ; The air, a chartered libertine, is still. Shaks. K. Henry V, act i. sc. i. Air — And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane. Be shook to air. Shaks. Troilus and Cressida, act ni. 8C. a. * Aidenn, an Anglicised and disgnised waj of spelling the Arabic form of the word Eden, 8m Wheeler's ** Noted Namee of Fiction." 10 AIR— AIRY. Air — ^Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. so. s. Air — ^The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. Longfellow, Resignation. Air — Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. i. Air — Our revels now are ended : these our actors. As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision. The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces. The solemn temples, the great globe itself. Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve. And, like this insubstantial pageant faded. Leave not a rack* behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Shaks. Tempest, act iv. sc. i. Air — Mocking the air with colours idly spread. Shaks. K. John, act v. sc. i. Air — Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Milton, Reason of Church Government, bk. ii. Airi/ — The lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling. Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shaks. Mid. Nights Dream, act v. sc. i. Airy — A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire. And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. Milton, Comus, 1. 205. • So in the original, but Mr. Dyce reads " wreck." AIRY— ALIKE, 11 Airy — Society became my glittering bride. And airy hopes my children. Wordsworth, Excursion^ bk. iii. Aisle — ^Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Aisles — The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. R. W. Emerson, The Problem. Ajax — The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows. And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But, when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar ; When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw ^ The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope, Essay on Criticismf pt. ii. 1. sen. Alabaster — Why should a man, whose blood is warm within. Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? SiiAKS. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. u Alabaster — ^Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. And smooth as monumental alabaster. Shaks. 0th,, act v. sc. u Alacrity — I have a kind oi alacrity in sinking. Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. 6. Alcestis — Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave. Mii/roN, Sonnets. Aldiborontiphoscophomio—A character in Henry Carey's play of Clirononhotonthologos, who has, as Sir Walter Scott says, " a facetious friend Rigdum Funnidos." The words are often intro- duced and the characters alluded to in literature. Alexandrine — A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 1», Alike — Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore. Has friflk'd beneath the burden of threescore. Goldsmith, Traveller, l. mu 12 ALL. All — Let greatness of her glassy sceptres vaunt — Not sceptres, no ; but reeds, soon bruised, soon broken : And let this worldly pomp our wits enchant ; All fades and scarcely leaves behind a token. Earl op Stirling, Darius. All — All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood : All partial evil, universal good ; And, spite of pride, in erring reasons spite. One truth is clear : Whatever is, is right. Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. 1. 299. All — Or shear swine, all cry and no wool. Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. i. I. 852. All — Of which all Europe rings, from side to side. Milton, Sonnet xxii. All — All in4he Doions the fleet was moored. J. Gay, Black-eyed Susan. All — What though the field be lost. All is not lost; the unconquerable will. And study of revenge, immortal hate. And courage never to submit or yield. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. los. All — ** All the Talents." A name given at first by its admire»8, and afterwards in derision, to Lord Grenville's ministry, formed on the death of Pitt, June, 1 806. Fox, Sheridan, and Windham were members of it. All — He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relations the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, All those men have their price. Sir R. Walpole, From Coxe's Mem. of Walpole, vol. iii. p. 369. All — All that's bright must fade, — The brightest still the fleetest ; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. Moore, Nat. Airs. All — Prove all things; hold fast that which is good, i Thess. v. 21. All — All things that are. Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act ii. so. e. ALL— ALMIGHTY. 18 jiTJ — I am made all things to all men. i Cor. ix. 23. All — And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Bom. viii. as. All — All men think all men moi-tal but themselves. Young, Night Thoughts, night i. I. 428. All — All thoughts, all passio7is, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Coleridge, Love, vol. i. p. 145. All — Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. To silence envious tongues. Be just, aud fear not ; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's. Thy God's, and truth's. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. a. All — For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is that they sing and that they love.* Waller, Song to Chloris All — And all we rnet was fair and good. And all was good that time could bring. And all the secrets of the spring Moved in the chambers of the blood. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxiii. Allegory — As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Sheridan, The Rivals, act v. ac. s. Allies — Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee, — air, earth, and skies ; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee ; thou hast great allies ; Thy friends are exultations, agonies. And love, and man's unconquerable mind. WoEDswoRTU, Son. to Toussaint L'Ouverture, pt. i. e. Allured — Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. i7o. Almighty — The almighty dollar — that great object of universal devotion throughout our land ! W. Irving, The Creole Village. • Thai quoted in Lady Rachel Russell's " Letter to Earl Qalway, on Friend- ship :"- " All we know they do above Is that they sing and that they lore." 14 ALMIGHTY— ALRASCHID, Almighty — These as they change, Almighty Father^ these Are but the varied God ! The rolling year Is full of Thee. Thomson, Hymuy 1. 1. Alms — But when thou doest alm^, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. Matt. vi. a Alone — Alone, that worn-out word. So coldly spoken and so idly heard ; Yet all that poets tell or grief hath known Of hearts laid waste dwells in that word alone. BuLWBE, New Timon. Alone — Then, never less alone than when alone. Rogers, Human Life. Alone — They are never aJone that are accompanied rvith noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, bk. i. Alone — Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a tvide, wide sea. Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, pt. iv. Alone — It is not good that the man should be aione. Gen. ii. la. Alone — ^We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. But we left him alone with his glory ! C. Wolfe, The Burial of Sir J. Mowe. Alone — I, measuring his affections by my own, That most are busied when theyWe most alone. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc i. Alp — O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of dedtth. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk.. ii. I. bzo. Alpha — I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Rev. xxii. 13. Alps — Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. 3», Alraschid — For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid. Tennyson, Rec. of the Arabian Nights. ALS ATI A— AMBITION. 16 AUatia — The furious German comes, with his clarions and his drums, His bravoes of Alsatia* and pages of Whitehall. Macaulat, Ballad*. Altai 9 — Strike for your altars and your fires ! Strike for the green graves of your sires, God, and your native land ! Halleck, Marco Bozzaris. Alteration — Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters wlien it alteration Jinds. Siiaks. Sonnet cxvi. Alway — I would not live alway. Job vii. 16. Amalthea — Flowed like an Amalthea's horn. Carlylk, Frederick. Amalthea was the goat that suckled Jupiter; one of the horns broken off was so endowed that it became a cornucopia, an ever- lasting horn of plenty. Amber — Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither ricli nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. leo. Ambition — But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And fortune's ice prefers to virtue's land. Dryden, Absdom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. i«. .-imbition — When that the poor have cried, Csesar hath wept: Ambition shcndd be made of sterner stuff". Shaks. Julius CcBsar, act iii. sc. s. Ambition — Praise enough To fill the aml/ltion of a private man. That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue. CowPER, The Task, bk. ii. 1. 385. Ambition — Here wo may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell ; Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. 36i. Ambition — I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself f And falls on the other side. Sila.ks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. • Alsatia, often alluded to in literature, was in the precincts of Wbitefriarf, where debtors took refuge. See CnnniuKbam's " London." t Should this not be manifestly «* sell, i.e. seat, the image being that of « horseman leaping vaulting to his saddle T 16 AMBITION— ANCIENT. Ambition — Fling away ambition ; By that sin fell the angels. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. s. Amen — I had most need of blessing, and Amen Stuck in my throat. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 2. Amend — Amend your ways and your doings. Jer. vii. s. Among — I stood Among them, but not oj them. Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto iii. at. 113. Among — She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. Wordsworth, Poems, vol. i. p. 217, edit. 1799. Amorous — Still amorous, and fond, and billing. Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii. can. i. 1. 687, Ample — Give ample room, and verge enough. The characters of Hell to trace. Gray, The Bard, pt. ii. st. 1. An — Though he endeavour it all he can, An ape will never be a man. George Witiier's Emblems, First Lotterie, emblem 14. Anarch — ^Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires. And unawares morality expires ; Nor public flame nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. Pope, Dunciad, bk. iv. 1. 649. Ancestors — All his successors, gone before him, hath done't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 1. Ancestors— Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 894. Ancient — ^A very ancient and fish-like smell. Shaks. Tempest, act ii. sc. 2 Ancient — I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. s. ANCIENTS-ANGELS. \1 Ancienta — We are the ancients of the earth And in the morning of the time. Tennyson, Dat/dream, L'Envci, And — And we with Nature's heart in tune concerted harmonies. Motherwell, Jeanie Morrison. Angel — Oh, woman! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thon I Scott, Marmion, can. vi. at. so. Angel — A guardian angel o^er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. BoGERS, Human Life. Angel — The accusing spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; ;>nd ih^recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out for ever.* Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. iv. ch. 8. Angelic — We extol Bacon and sneer at Aquinas, but if the situa- tions had been changed. Bacon might have been The Angelic Doctor.^ Macaulay, Essays, Lord Bacon, Angel's face — Her angel's face. As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright. And made a sunshine in the shady place. Spenser, Fairy Queen, bk. i. can. iii. at. 4. AngeCa ken — K& fiw as angeVs ken. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. as. Angels — But sad as angels for the good man's sin. Weep to record and blush to give it in. J Caaipbell, Pleas. (fHope, pt. ii. \ngels — Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. so. a. ingels — Hush ! my dear, lie still and slumber; Holy angels guard thy bed ; Heav'nly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. Watts, A Cradle Hymm, * Weep to record, and blnsh to give it in. Campbell, Pleasures of Ho}.e, pt. iL t A name applied to Thomas Aqainas. I See Sterne, ut supra, from which thi. is taken. C is ANGELS. Angels — ^And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes And into glory peep. H. Vaughan, They are all gone. Angels — Angels and ministers of grace, defend us ! Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. Angels — So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton, Comus, 1. 469. Angels — Angels listen when she speaks : She's my delight and mankind's wonder ; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder. Rochesteb, Poems, Angels — But man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured. His glassy essence, like an angry ape. Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep. Shaks. Measure Jor Measure, act ii. sc. 2, Angels — Could we forbear dispute, and practise love. We should agree as angels do above. Waller, Divine Love, cant. iii. Angels — woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted/air, to look like you : There's in you all that we believe of Heaven ; Amazing brightness, purity, and truth. Eternal joy, and everlasting love. T. Otway, Venice Preserved, act i. sc. i. Angels — Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great oflfice, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. Angels — In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes : Men would be angels, angels would be gods. PoPB, Essay on Man, Ep, i. 1. las A NGEL S-^A N G UlSH. \9 A nyela — We are ne'er like angels till our pusaion dies. Ford, The Hone,tt Whore, act i. sc. s. Anyel-vi3it9 — Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave— oh ! leave the light of Hope behind ! What though my winged hours of bliss have been. Like angel-visits, few and far between.* T. Campbell, Pleas, of Hope, pt. ii. 1. 876. Anger — An you love me, forspeak me not : 'tis the worst luck in the world to stir a witch or anger a wise man. Qeorgb Peele, Edward I, Dyce*8 Ed. p. «o. Anger — A countenance more In sorrow than in miger. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. Anger — 0, what a deal of scorn looks beautifiil In the contempt and anger of his lip ! Shaks. Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. i Angling — Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to be bom so. I. Walton, The Complete Angler, pt. i. ch. 1. Angry — Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes. PoMKRET, To his Friend in Affliction. Angry — Be ye angry, and sin not : let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Eph. iv. as. Anguish — One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. Shars. Bomeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 3 Anguish — In Misery's darkest cavern known. His useful care was ever nigh, Where hopeless Anguvth poured his groan, And lonely Want retired to die. JoHXSON, Epitaph on Bobert Levett * 80 few and rare between. Hesiod, Works and Days, div. ii. 1. 398. How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like appHntions seen and Rone; But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exqnisite and stroDK ; Like arufels' visits, short and bright, Mortalitjr's too weak to bear them '''°?:_ Rev. J. NoRRis, of Bemerton, T!^ Parting. Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost. Not to return ; or if it did. in visits Like those of angels, short and far beiweex, R. Blair, The Grave, pt. ii. 1. 587. 20 ANIMATED— ANTIPODES. Animated — Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Annals — Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. Ibid. Annihilate — Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy. Pope, Martinus Scriblerus, ch. xi. Anointed — Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women Rail on the Lord's anointed. Shaks. K. Mich. Ill, act iv. sc. 4. Another — By happy chance we saw A twofold image : on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same ! Woebsworth, Excursion, bk. ix. Another's brow — We see Tim^ s furrows on another's brow; How few themselves in that just mirror see ! Young, Night Thoughts, 1. 627. Another's sword — Another's sword has laid him low, Another's and another's ; And every hand that dealt the blow, Ah me ! it was a brother's ! Campbell, O'Connor's Child, st. lo. Answer — A soft answer turneth away wrath. Proverbs xv. i. Answer — The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxviii. Anthems — For my voice, I have lost it with holloaing and singing of anthems. Shaks. K. Hen. IV, pt. ii. act i. sc. t. Anthropophagi — The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. s. Antidote — Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd : Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stufF'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart ? Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. «. Antipodes — Thou damned antipodes to common sense. Rochester, To Edward Howard, ANTRES— APPETITE, %\ Antra — Antres vast, and desarU idle. Suaks. Othello, act 1. sc. 9. Ant/thing — For what is worth in anything But BO much money as't will bring? Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. i. 1. M6. Apollo— Ho\r charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. MiLTOit, Comus, 1. 476. Apotlos — I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 1 Cor. iii. «. Apostle of Temperance — A title bestowed on Father Mathew, who died in 1866, an early, if not the first, great Temperance Preacher. Apostles — Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while Apostles shrank, could danger brave. Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. E. Stannard Barrett, Woman, bk. 1. 1. !<«.• Apostolic — And prove their doctrine orthodox By Apostolic blows and knocks. Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. i. 1. 199. Apparel — Every true mans apparel fits your thief. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act iv. sc. 2. dpparel — Costly thy liabit as thy purse can buy. But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : For the apparel q/t proclaims the man. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 8. Apparitions — I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions start Into her face ; a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness bear away those blushes. Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc 1. Appeal — / appeal unto Casar. Acts xxy. 11. Appearance — Judge not according to the appearance. John vii. a. Appetite — Doth not the appetite alter ? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. SuA&8. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. ac. s. * Qaoted from original eJitioa of 1610. ¥k APPETITE— APPROBATION. Appetite — And then to breakfast, with What appetite you have. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. ac. i Appetite — Appetite comes tvtth eating, says Angeston. Eabelais, bk. i. ch. & Appetite — Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both ! Shaks. Macbeth^ act iii. sc. 4 Appetite — Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had groum By what it fed on. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3 Appetite — 0, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Shaks. K. JRichard II, act i. sc. s. Applaud — I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. 3. Apple — He kept him as the apple of his eye. Deut. xxxii. lo. Apple — ^A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; 0, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. s. Apples — There's small choice in rotten apples. Shaks. Taming of the Shrew, act i. sc. i. Apples — ^A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Prov. xxv. n. Appliance — Diseases, desperate grown, By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all. Shaks. ffaniht, act iv. sc. s Appliances — With all appliances and means to boot. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. i. Apprehension — The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great Aa when a giant dies. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. i Apprehension — The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Shaks. K. Richard II, act i. sc. 3. Approbation — Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise iadeed. T. Morton, A Cure for the Heart-Ache, act v. sc. ? APPROVING— ARCHER. 28 Approving — An elegant suflSciency, content. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Ease and alternate labour, useful life. Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven. Thomson, Spring, 1. uml Approving — One self-approving hour whole years outweighs. Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. an. April — 0, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ! Shaks. Two Gentlemen of Verona, act i. sc. s. April — Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February hath twenty-eight alone. And all the rest have thirty-one. Excepting leap-year, then is the time When February's days are twenty-nine.* Child* s Primer. Arabia — And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. Pope, TTie Rape of the Lock, can. i. 1. iw. Arabia — All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Shaks. Macbeth, act v. sc. i. Arabi/s daughter — Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter. Moore, The Fire- Worshippers. Araby -Araby the blest! Kooers, Italy, The Feluca, 1. io7. Archangel — His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. »i. Archer — Insatiate Archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. xis. • III Harruoa'8 description of Britain, preface to Holinshed'a Chronielat, 1577, p. 119, appears the following: — Thirty days hatd November, April, Jane, and September, Twenty and eyght hath Feb. alone, Bat in the leape you most add one. And all the rest thirty-aad-one. 24 ARCHITECT— ARMIES. Architect — Every man is architect of his otvn fortune. Atumymous Architecture — Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world. Maelowe, Tamburlaine, act ii. so. 4. Argent — ^At length burst in the argent revelry, With plume, tiara, and all rich array. Keats, St. Agnes^ Eve. Argue — Yet I argue not Against Heaven* s hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. Milton, Sonunt xxin. Argue — In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 211. Argites — ^Not to know me argues yourselves unknoum. The lowest of your throng. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. sso. Argument — ^He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. Shaks. Lovers Lahour^s Lost, act v. so. 1. Ark — Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cau^e. CowPBR, The Task, The Timepiece, bk. ii. Ark — A successive title, long and dark. Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. soi. Armida's Palace — ^The stage, even as it then was, after the re- cluseness of a college life, must have appeared like Armidds en- chanted palace.* Hazlitt, Essays. Armies — Ran on embattled armies clad in iron. Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1. 128. Armies — " Our armies svx>re terribly in Flanders," cried my uncle Toby, *' but nothing to this." L. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vol. iii. chap. xi. * Armida is an enchantress, and one of the most beautiful and exquisiteljr- drawn characters in Tasso's " Jerusalem Delivered." ARMOUR—ART, 26 Armour — How happy is he born or taught That serveth not another's will, VTIiose armour is Jiis honest thought f And simple truth his utmost skill ! Sir H. Wotton, The Character of a Haypy Lif9, Armourers — The hum of eitlier army stilly sounds. That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch : Fire answers fire ; and through their paly flames Elach battle sees the other's umber'd face : Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear ; and, from the tents. The armourers, accomplishing the knights. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Give dreadful note of preparation. Shaks. K. Henry V, act iv. chorua. Arms — Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate. Dryden's Trans, of Virg. Mn. bk. i. 1. i. Arms — Of seeming arms to make a short tjssay. Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. Drtden, Cymxm and Ipfiigenia, 1. 407. Arms — Eyes, look your last I Arms, take your last embrace ! Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act v. sc. s. Army — ^Terrible as an army with banners. Song of Solomon, vi. lo. Arrant — ^"Tis a gull, an arrant gull with all this. Scott, Peveril, chap, xxvii. Arrow — I have shot mine arrow o'er the house. And hurt my brother. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. s. Arrows — Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. i. Art — ^Th* adorning thee with so much art Is but a barbarous skill ; 'Tis like the poisoning of a dart. Too apt before to kill. Cowlby, The Waiting Maid, Art — True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. loi. 28 ART—ARTb. Art — ^And snatch a grace beyond the reach qf art. Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt i. 1. i55. Art — For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. Dryden, The Cock and Fox^ I. «2. Art — ^The course of Nature is the art of God. Young, Night Thoughts, night ix. I. laec. Art — ^The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering. Chaucer, Assembly of Foules, I. i. Art — Art is long, and time is fleeting.* Longfellow, a Psalm of Life. Art — ^To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith, Deserted Village, I. 253. Art — The last and greatest art, the art to blot. Pope, Sat. Ep. and Odes of Horace, bk. ii ep. i. 1. 281. Art — The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye. To give repentance to her lover. And wring his bosom is — to die. Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, chap, xr.iv. Art — With curious art the brain, too finely wrought. Preys on herself, and is destroyed by tli ought. Churchill, Ep. to William Hogarth. Artless — So full oi artless jealousy is guilt. It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. Shaks. Ham. act iv. sc. 6. Arts — Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. Milton, Paradise Regained, bk. iv. I. 2to. Arts — Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Sheffield, Ess. of Poetry. Arts — We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine. But search of deep philosophy. Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. Cowley, On the Death of Mr. W, Harvey. • "Ars longa, vita brevis." This is a mere translation of one of the Apho»' isms of Hippocrates : — A S—A SK. 27 /is — As 1 lay a-thtnkinge, a-thinkinge, a-thbkinge, Merry sang the bird as it sat upon the tree. Bariiam, Ingoldsby Legends, Last Verses. Am — As good as a play. An Exclamation of Charles II. when in Parliament attending the Discusffion of Lord Boss's Divorce Bill. As — As he thinketh in his heart, so b he. Prov. xxiii. 7. As — As it fell upon a day. In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade. Which a grove of myrtles made. R. Barnfield, Address to the Nightingale. Ashes — ^Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 7%e Burial Service. Ashes — E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. Gray, E2egy in a Country Churchyard. Ashes — Lie gently on my ashes, gentle Earth !* Beaumont and Fletcher, Bonduca, act iv. sc. 8. Ashes — Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear. And leave his sons a hope, a fame They, too, will rather die than shame ; For Freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. Byron, The Giaour, \. lie. Ashes — And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods ? Macaulay, Lajs ofAnc. Rome. Ashes — Our best remains are a.'ihes and a shade. Francis, Trans, of Horace, bk. ir. ode t. Ask — Ask, and it shall be given you ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matt. vii. T. * 8«e Prior to Mem. of Col. Gteorge Villien. 28 ASK—ASPIEINdt. Ask — Ask not of me, love, what is love ! Ask what is good of God above — Ask of the great sun what is light — Ask what is darkness of the night — Ask sin of what may be forgiven — Ask what is happiness of Heaven — Ask what is folly of the crowd — Ask what is fashion of the shroud — Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss — Ask of thyself what beauty is ? P. J. Bailey, Festus, Ask — ^To wear a crown enchased with pearls and gold, Whose virtues carry with it life and death ; To ask and have, command and be obeyed. Marlowe, Tamburlaine, act iv. so. s. Ask — And what its worth, ask death-beds : they can tell. Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. »i. Ask — Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, act iii. Askelon — Tell it not in Gath : publish it not in the streets qf Askelon. a Sam. i. 20. Asleep — Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! WoEDSvvoRTH, Miscell. Sonnets, pt. ii. xxxvi. Asleep — Here she lies, a pretty bud, Lately made of flesh and blood ; Who as soon fell fast asleep As her little eyes did peep. Give her strewings, but not stir The earth that lightly covers her. Herrick, Hesperides, ep. xcviiL Asmodeus — A kind of good-natured Mephistopheles, in Le Sage's Diahle Boiteux. — Could the reader take an Asmodeus flight, and waving open all roofs and privacies, look down from the roof of Notre-Dame, what a Paris it were ! Carlyle, French Revolution. Aspick's tongues — Swell, bosom, with thy fraught. For 'tis of asp£cks' tongues ! Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 3. Aspiring — What! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink in the ground ? Shaks. K. Henry VI, pt. iii. act v. sc. 6. ASS—ATLANTEAN. i% As» — Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for yoxir dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. i. Ait—Egregiously an ass. Siiaks. Othello, act ii. sc. i. As9 — 0, that he were here to tvrite me down an ass! — 0, that I had been writ down an ass ! Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. s. Assassination — If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch. With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. r. Assembly — Is our whole diss(ass)embly appeared ? Siiaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. Assume — Assume a virtue if you have it not. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. Assurance — I'll make assurance double sure. And take a bond of fate. Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. i. Assurance — A combination, and a form, indeed. Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man. Shaks. Ham. act iii. sc. 4. Astronomer — An undevout astronomer is mad. Young, Night Thoughts, night ix. I. n». Atheism — Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight !) the owlet Atheism, Sailing on obscene wings atliwart the noon, Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close. And, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven, Cries out, " Where is it?" Coleridgk, Fears in Solitude, Atheist — By night an atheist half believes a God. Young, Night Thoughts, night v. 1. in. Atheist's — An atheisms laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended I Burns, Ep. to a Young Friend. AHantean — With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care ; 30 ATTEMPT— AVON, And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin. Sage he stood. With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as niglit Or summer's noontide air. Milton, Paradise Lest, bk. ii. 1. aoo, Attempt — The attempt, and not the deed, Confounds us, Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. a. Attempt — Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt: Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. Lovelace, Seek and Find. Attendance — To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act v. sc. a. Attire — rise and sit in soft attire. Thomas Aird, My Mother s Grave. Audience — Still govern thou my song, Urania, and^i audience find, though few. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. vii. 1. ao. Augury — "We defy augury. Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc, 2. Auld — Should auld acquaintance be forgot. And never brought to min' ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne ? Burns, Auld Lang Syne. Author — Show him up. Don't stir, gentlemen ; 'tis but an author. Le Sage, Gil Bias, bk. iii. chap. ii. Authors — Authors alone, with more than savage rage. Unnatural war with brother-authors wage. Churchill, The Apology, 1. 27. Autumn — Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain. Thomson, Autumn, L a. Autumn — Yellow autumn, wreathed with nodding com. Burns, Brigs of Ayr. Avon — k% thou these ashes, little Brook ! wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas. Into the main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies, How the bold Teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed. Wordsworth, To WickUff, AWAKE— AYH. 81 Awake — Awake! arise I or be for ever fallen. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. sso. Awe — I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life ; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as J myself. Shaks. Jtd. Cat. act i. sc. x. Awfvl — 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still and nature made a pause. An awful pause. Young, Night Thoughts, Complaint, 1. ». Axe — And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees. Luke ill. 0. Axe — When I see a merchant over-polite to his customersi beg- ging them to take a little brandy, and throwing his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an axe to grind. Benj. Franklin, Poor Richard. Ay — Auld Ayr, whom ne'er a town surpasses For honest men and bonnie lasses. Burns, Tarn O'Shanter, BABBLED— BACK. ABBLED— Babbled oj green fields. Shaks. K. Henry V, act ii. sc. 3. Babe — Cold on Canadian hills or Minden*8 plain, Perhaps the parent mourned her soldier slain ; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew ; The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew. Gave the sad presage of his future years. The child of misery, baptized in tears. J. Langhorne, The Country Jtistice, pt. i. tiaby — Baby fingers, waxen touches, press me from the mother's breast. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. Baby — The Public ! why, the Public's nothing better than a great baby ! Chalmbrs, Letters. Bachelor — When I said / would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. s. Back — Back and side, go bare, go bare. Both foot and hand, go cold ; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old. Bp. Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle, act ii. Back — ^The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. Cowper, Friendship, Back — With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe. CAiiPBELL, LochieVs Warning. Backing — Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing ! Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. ac i. Sad — High on a throne of royal state — which fiw Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold- Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 1. Badge — Sufferance is the badge qf all our tribe. Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act i. sc. i. Baggage — It will let in and out the enemy With bag and baggage. Silaks. Winter's Tale, act i. ac. 2. Balaam — And sad Sir Balaam curses God and dies. Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iii. last line. Balance — Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust qf the balance. Isaiah x\. 19. Balances — Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Dan. V. «T. Bald — The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day, Tennyson, In Memoriam, Bales — Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 4M. Ballad — ^A ballad to the wandering moon. Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. Ixxxviii. v. s. Ballad — I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iii. sc. i. Ballads — I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who shoxdd make the laws of a nation. Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun. Letter to the Marquis qf Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, ^c. Ballads — Thespis, the first professoV of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a. cart. Deyden, Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba, 34 BALLADS— BANQUET, Ballads — K I were permitted to make the ballads of a nation, I should not care who made its laws. Edinburgh Review, No. 229. Balm — Is there, is there balm in Gilead ? — tell me — tell me, I implore. Poe, The Raven. Balm — ^Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Jer. viii. 22. Balm — ^Methought I heard a voice cry, " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care. The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath. Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. 2. Bane — My death and life. My bane and antidote, are both before me. Addison, Cato, act v. sc. 1. Bane — The bane of all that dread the devil. Wordsworth, The Idiot Boy, Bank — I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. Shaks. Midsummer- Nighl^ s Dream, act ii. sc. 2. Bankrupt — Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Bankrupt — What a bankrupt am I made Of a full stock of blessings ! Ford, Perk. Warbeck, act iii. sc. 2. Banish — Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. Shaks. K, Henry IV, part i. act ii. so. 4. Banner — ^The star-spangled banner, 0, long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ! F. S. Key, The Star-spangled Banner. Banners — Hang out our banners on the outward walls ; The cry is still ** They come !" Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. Shaks. Macbeth, act y. sc. 6. Banquet — I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted^ Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed. Moore, Oft in the Stilly Night. BA^QUET-'BARliEN. U Banquet — She comes a-reckoning when the banquets o*er, The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. J. Gav, The What Uye CaWt, act ii. sc. ». Bar — Sweat and torangle at the bar. Ben Jonson, The Forest, Bar — A group of wranglers from the bar, Suspending here their mimic war. Bloomfisld, Banks qf Wye. Bar — Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. And grapples with his evil star. Tennybon, In Memoriam, can. bciii. v. a. Barbarians — There were his young barbarians all at play, TIjere was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday. Bteon, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. ui. Bark — Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumpli, and partake the gale ? Pope, Essay on Man, [Ep. iv. 1. 890. Bark — I sit within a helmless bark, And with my heart I muse. Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. iv. v. i Bark — His bark is worse than his bite. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. Barks — The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. Smaks. K, Henry VI, part ii. act iii. sc, i. Barleycorn — Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn ! R. Burns, Tarn (yShanter. Barnacle — The Barnacle Family had for some time helped to ad- minister the Circumlocution OflBce . . . They were dispersed all over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places. Either the nation was under a load of obligation to the Barnacles, or the Barnacles were under a load of obligation to the nation. It was not quite unanimously settled which ; the Barnacles having their opinion, and the nation theirs. Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, ch. x. Barren — Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe ; Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand. No son of mine succeeding. Suaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. l« 36 BASEr-BATTLE. Base — Is hose in kind, and born to be a slave. CowPEH, Table Talk, Base— Base is the slave that pays. Shaks. K. Henry F", act ii. sc. i. Base — To what hose uses we may return, Horatio ! Shaks. Hamlet, act v. sc. i. Baseness — Is there no baseness we would hide, No inner vileness that we dread ? Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. 1. v. i. Baseness — She finds the baseness of her lot, Half jealous of she knows not what. Ibid. can. lix. v. 2. Baseness — Never ill, man, until / hear of baseness ; And then I sicken. Beaumont and Fletcher, Nice Valour, act i. sc. i. Baser — Lewd fellows of the baser sort. Acts xvii. 5. Bastard — He is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. SiiAKS. K. John, act i. sc. i. Bastion — And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xv. Bated — In a bondman's key. With bated breath, and whispering humbleness. Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act i. sc. 3. Battalions — When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions. Shaks. Hamlet, act iv. sc. 6, Battle — Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas. Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze! Campbell, Ye Mariners of England, Battle — How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! 2 Sam. i. 25. Battle — ^What a charming thing is a battle ! Bickerstafp, Beceiiing Serjeant, act i. sc. 4. Battle — Heard so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i, L 27S. BATTLE^BE. 87 Batde — The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. P. .! '.\ ■ Eccles. \x. 11. Bo/e/erf— Who ioitfed for the true, the just. Tennyson, In Memoriamf can. Iv. v. s. Batting arrtu^ — Battle's magnificently-stern array I Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 28. Battlements — With battlements, that on their restless fronts Bore stars. Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. ii. Battles — Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain. Fought all his battles o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. Dryden, Alexander's Feast, 1. 68. Battles — The battles, sieges, fortunes. That I have passed. Siiaks. Othello, act i. sc. 3. Bat/ — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman. Siiaks. Julius C(zscur, act iv. sc. 8. Be — In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old : Be not thefir^t by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope, An Essay on Criticism, pt. ii. 1. i38. Be — Be of good cheer : it is I ; be not afraid. Matt. xiv. 27. Be — Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me ! and be quiet. Lady M. W. Montagu.* Be — Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. / Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. s- voe — Be to het virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. Prior, An English Padlock. Be — Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer. Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. an. J?^— Be wise with speed: A fool at forty is a fool indeed. YouNO, Love of Fame, satire ii. I. asi, • Called by her " A Summary of Lord Lytteltoa's Advice to a Ladj." ** The eoanaeU of a friend, Belinda, hear," &c. S8 BE— BEARD, Be — Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. Francis Quarles, Emblems, bk. H. L & Be — To he, or not to he : that is the question : — Whether *tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles. And, by opposing, end them ? To die : to sleep ; No more ; — ^and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to ; 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream ; — ^ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. Must give us pause. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. 8C. i. Beadle — A very beadle to a humorous sigh. Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act iii. sc. i. Beads — Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And heads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before. Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. ii. 1. 275. Bear — Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. Pope, Ep. to Dr. Arhuthnot, Prol. to the Satires, 1. m. Bear— Ye Gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. Shaks. Julius C(Bsar, act i. sc. 2. Bear — They've bought the skin, but who's to Mil the bear. Canning, Anti-Jacobin, p. 44. Bear — To bear is to conquer our fate. T. Campbell, Scene in Argyleshire, last line. Beard — Such a beard as hung in candles Down to Diogenes' sandals. Cawthorne, Birth and Education of Genius, JBEARD^BEAUTIES. « Beard — Such a beard as youth gave out Had left in ashes. Tennyson, Idylls qfKing Vivien, Beard — Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air. Gray, The Bard, pt. i. at. ». Beard — And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall ? Soott, Marmion, can. vi. st. 14. Beards — *Tis merry in hall When beards wag all. T. TussER, Five Hund. Points of Good Husbandry, ch. xlvi. Beast — It is & familiar beast to man, and signifies — ^love. SnAKS. Merry Wives qf Windsor, act i. sc. i. Beast — ^More upward working out the beast. And let the ape and tiger die. Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. cxvii. v. r. Beast — A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Prov. xii. lo Beast — A beast, that wants discourse of reason. SiiAKS. Hamlet, act i. sc. 2. Beaumont — Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakspoare in your tlireefold, fourfold tomb. Will. Basse, On Shakspeare, Beaumont — Soul of the age ! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage ! My Shakspeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room. Ben Jonson, To the Memory of Shaks. Beauties — So stands the statue that enchants the world. So bending tries to veil the matchless boast. The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. Thomson, The Seasons, Summer, 1. ims. Beauties — ^The pale unripened beauties of the North, Addison, Cato, act i. sc. 1. 40 REA UTIES—BEA UTY. Beauties — You meaner beauties of the night, . That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number, than your light. SiE H. WoTTON, rTo his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, Beaut£fid'—She*B beautiful; and therefore to be wooed. She is a woman ; therefore to be won; Shaks. King Henry VI, part i. act v. sc. s. Beautiful— Beautiful as sweet ; And young as beautiful ; and soft as young ; And gay as soft; and innocent as gay. youNG, Night Thoughts, night iii. 1; si. beautiful — If God hath made this world so fair. Where sin and death abound, , How beautiful beyond compare Will Paradise be found ! J. Montgomery, The Earth full of Gods Goodness, Beautiful — Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical ! Shaks, Borneo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2. Beautifully — ^The air and harmony of shape express. Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. Prior, Henry and Emma. Beauty — And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. Beattie, Hermit. Beauty — A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness. J. Keats, Endymion, 1. 1. Beauty — *Tis beauty calls and glory leads the way. Nath. Lee, Alexander the Great, act ii. sc. 2. Beauty — Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare. And beauty draws us with a single hair. Pope, The Rape of the Lock, can. ii. 1. 27 Beauty — FUls the air around with beauty. Byron, Childe Harold 's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. 49, Beauty — ^To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Isaiah Ixi. 3. Beauty — 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call. But the joint force and full result of all. Pope, Essay on Criticism, I. aa. BEAUTY. 41 Beauty — He hath a daily beauty in his life. SiiAKS. OthdlOf act v. sc. i. Beauty — Underneath this atone doth lie As muck beauty as could die ; Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Beauty — Beauty is but ajiower, Which wrinkles will devour. Thomas Nash, Summer*s Last Will and Testament, 1. no. Beauty — Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known. Lyttelton, Soliloquy of a Beauty, 1. ii. Beauty — Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. J. Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Beauty — ^He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. Byrow, The Giaour, 1. 68. Beauty — For where is any autlior in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye f l^eaming is but an adjunct to ourself. Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act iv. sc. s. Beauty — She ukUIcs in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. Byron, Hebrew Melodies, B^cttUy — Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears. Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. ii. I. 96. Beauty — ^"Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act i. ac. c 42 BEAUTY^BEE. Beauty — It is not beauty I demand, A crystal brow, tbe moon's despair. Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair. Thomas Cakew, A Beauty — And forth she went, a shop for merchandise, Full of rich stuff, but none for sale exposed ; • A veil obscur'd the sunshine of her eyes : TTie rose unthin herself her sweetness closed. Each ornament about her seemly lies By curious chance, or careless art, composed ; For what she most neglects, most curious prove — So beauty 's help'd by nahire, heaven, and love. Tasso, Recovery of Jerusalem, Fairfax's Trans, bk. ii. c. 18. Beauty's chain — To sigh, yet feel no pain ; To weep, yet scarce know why ; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. Moore, The Blue Stocking. Beauty's ensign — Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks. And death's pale flag is not advanced there. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act v. sc. 3. Beaux — Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel ; Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle. MooRE, Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country. Bed — Cos. Pray, now, what may be that same bed oj" honour? Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed ! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware — ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another. G. Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer, act i. sc. i. Bed — Who goes to bed and does not pray, Maketh two nights to every day ! Geo. Herbert, The Temple. Bedfellows — Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. Shaks. Tempest, act ii. sc. 2. Bee — How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. And gather honey all the day, From ev'ry op'ning flower ! I. Watts, Divine Songs, song xx. Bee — Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. ^haks. Tempest, Act v. sc. u BEER— BEGINNING. a B«er — ^To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. i. Beea — Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn. The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. Tennyson, The Princess, can. vii. Beggar — When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid. Shaks. Romeo and Jttliet, act ii. sc. i. Beggar — Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Sib W. Raleigh, The Silent Lover, Beggar — A beggar begs that never begged before. Shaks. Richard II, act v. sc. i. Beggared — For her own person. It beggared all description. Shaks. Antony and Cleopatra, act ii. sc. s. Beggarly — ^A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act v. sc. i. Beggarly — ^The beggarly last doit. CowPER, The Task, bk. v. Winter Morning Walk, Beggars — When beggars die, there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act ii. sc. 3. Beggary — ^There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. Shaks. Antony and Cleopatra, act i. sc. i. Beginmhg — ^That is the true beginning of our end. Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, prologue. Beginning — ^The beginning of the end. Tallztsand. Beginning — He has half the deed done who has made a beginning, KoRvCE {Svaa.rt,) Epistle, hk.i.* • Dfanidiam facti qui coepit habet.— Horacb, ep. ii. bk. i. 40. 44 BEGONE— BELLS. Begone — Begone, dull care, I prithee begone from me ; "' W Begone, dull care, thou and I shall never agree. From Playford's Musical Companion, Beguile — And often, did beguile her of her tears. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. s. Belated — Faery elves. Whose midnight revels, by a forest side. Or fountain, some belated peasant sees. Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. to. Belial — When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Ibid. 1. soo. Belief- — Stands not within the prospect of belief. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 8. Bell — ^But the sound of the church-going bell Those valleys and rocks never heard. Never sighed at the sound of a knell, Or smiled when a Sabbath appeared. CowPEE, Lines supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. Sell — Silence that dreadful bell : it frights the isle From her propriety. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 8. Bell — Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing iriend. Shaks. King Henry IV, part ii. act i. sc. i. Bell — ^The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. Young, Night Thoughts, night i. 1. ss. Bell— -The tocsin of the soul, the dinner bell. Byron, Don Juan, canto v, at. 49. Bells — ^Now see that noble and most sovereign reason. Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. i. Bells — How soft the music of those village bells ! CowPER, The Task, bk. vi. 1. a. Bells — Those evening bells ! Those evening bells ! How many a tale their music tells ! Mooeb, Songs, vol. iv. BELLY— BEST. 4d JJefly— Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame. PhilippiaTis iii. is. Belly-fitU — Every Jack-slave hath his belly-full of fighting. Shaks. Cymbeline, act ii. sc. i. Bench — A Utde bench of heedless bishops here. And there a chancellor in embryo. Will, Shenstonb, The Schoclrmstrese. Bendemeer^s stream — There's a bower of roses by Bendemecr^a stream. Thomas Moore, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. Beneath — Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great. Gray, TTie Progress of Poetry, pt. iii. st. s. Beneath — Beneath the milk-white thorn tliat scents the evening gale. Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night. Benedick — How dost thou, Benedick the married man ? Siiaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc. 4. Benevdence — The man whom benevolence warms la an angel who lives but to bless. Bloomfield, Banks of Wye, Bent — They fool me to the top of my bent. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. a. Bermoothes — Prom the still-vexed Bermoothes. SiiAKs. Tempest, act i. sc. s. Berries — I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And, with forced fingers rude. Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Milton, Lycidas, 1. 5. Berries — Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. Shaks. Midsummer - Nigh^ s Dream, act iii. BC. s. Best — The best good man with the worst-natured muse. Rochester, An Allusion to the Tenth Satire of the First Book of Horace. Best — ^The best in this kind are but shadows. Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act v. sc. u 'est — ^They say, best men are moulded out of faults. Shaks. Measure for Measure, act v. sc. i. y^esi 46 BEST—BEZONIAN, Best — The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed. Thojias Dekker, The Honest Whore, pt. i. act i. sc. 12. Better — Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox, and hatred therewith. Proverbs xv. 17. Better — I could have better spared a better man. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act v. sc. «. Better— Verily I swear 'tis better to be lowly bom, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Siiaks. K. Henry VIII, act ii. sc. 3. Better — Though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse Appear the better reason. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii, 1. 112. Between — Bolus arrived, and gave a doubtful tap, Between a single and a double rap. Colman, Broad Grins. Betwixt — And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by. He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly. To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Bettvixt the wind and his nobility. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. s. Beois — Their theme tiie merry minstrels made [to Canto \st. Of Ascapart and Bevis Bold.* Scott, Marmion, Introduction Beware — Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. CowpER, The Needless Alarm, moral. Beware — Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice : Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. SiiAKS. Hamlet, act i. sc. 3. Bezonian — Under which king, Bezonian? Speak, or die. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act v. sc. 3. • Bevis of Southampton, a hero of romajice, in Draftori's Polyolbion, bk. ii. BIBLEr-BIRTH. 47 BMe — The doctrine of chances is the Bible of the fool. Times Newspaper, Bible — Carries her Bible tucked beneath his amif And hides his hands to keep his fingers warm. COWPEK, Truth, L 147. Big — The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds hrings on the day, The grreat, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Addison, Cato, act i. sc i. Bigness — And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be. For length and breadth, tlie bigness which you see. BuNVAN, Apology for his Book. Billows — Strongly it bears us along, in swelling and limitless billowSf Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. GoLBRiDQE, The Homeric Hexameter, Binding — ^And, binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. Pope, Universal Prayer, Bird — Some say that ever 'gninst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, I'he bird of dawning singeth all night long, Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. i. Bird — For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. Eccles. x. ao. Bird — Sweet bird, that shunnest the noise of folly. Most musical, most melancholy ! Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 6i. Birds — For time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last yearns nest ! Longfellow, It is not always May. Birth — Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. WoEDSwoRTU, Intimations ^Immortality, st. 6. Birth — While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun. Young, ^ight Thoughts, night ▼. L 717. 48 BISCOIT-^BLADDERS. Biscuit — One that hath been a courtier. And says, if ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it ; and in his brain. Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places crammM With observation. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. so. t. Bishopric — Scarce can a bishopric forepass them bye. But that it must be gelt in privacy. Spensee, Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubbard's Tak. Bitter— 0£s\\ the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Johnson, London, 1. lee. Bitterness — But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things. Wordsworth, Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces, xiii. Black — Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray, Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may. MiDDLETON, Witchf act ii. Quoted or imitated in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Black — The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap. And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. Butler, Hudibras, part ii. can. ii. 1. 29. Blackberries — Give you a reason on compulsion ? If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. Blackbird — Besides, 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak ; That Latin was no more difficile Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. BuTLEU, Hudibras, part i. can. i. 1. 5i, Blackguards — Arcades ambo ; * id est, blackguards both. Byron, Don Juan, can. iv. st. ss. Bladder — A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a bladder. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. Bladders — Books bear him up awhile, and make him try To swim with bladders of philosophy. KocHESTER, Epistle to Edward Howard. ■ ■'' • Ambo floreutes setatibus, Arcades ambo. — Virgil, Ed. vii. 4. BLADE— BLESSIJSfGS. || Blade — Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright. Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade, Moore, On the Death of Sheridan. Bladea — ^Whoever coald make two ears of com, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put to- gether. Swift, Gvllivers Travels, Brobdingnag, ch. 7. Blameless — How happy is the blameless vestal's lot I The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Pope, Eloisa to Abdard, 1. aoT. Blank — Duke. And what's her history ? //^ Viola. A blank, my lord. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. so. 4. Blast — Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more ; Or close the wall up with our English dead] In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears. Then imitate the action of the tiger : Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shaks. K. Henry V, act iii. so. u Bleed — Let the gull*d fool the toils of war pursue, Where bleed the many to enrich the few. Shenstonb, Judgment of Hercules, 1. les. Bleeding — " Heaven ! " he cried, " my bleeding country save ! ** Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. i. 1. 889. Blessed — Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn, And he alone is blessed who ne'er was bom. Prior, Solomon, bk. iii. 1. mo. Blessed — It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts xx. S6. Blesses — Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. Addison, Cato, act i. sc. 4. Blessing — My blessing, like a line of light, Is on the waters day and night. Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. xvii. v. a. Blessings — For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds. And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. CoNGREVE, The Mourning Bride, act T. sc. u. E H^ BLESSINGS— BLISS. Blessings — Blessings be tvith them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares. The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Wordsworth, Personal Talk, at. «. Blessings — How blessings brighten as they take their flij^ht. Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 002. Blest — ^Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, \^Ep. i. 1. 95. Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Pope, Essay on Man, Blest — I die — ^but first I have possessed. And, come what may, / have been blest. Byron, The Giaour, I. 1114. Blest — Blest paper credit ! last and best supply ! ^Ep. iii. 1. 39. That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. Pope, Moral Essays, Blind — Be that blind bard, who on the Chian strand. By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge, Fancy in Nubibus. Blind — I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. Job xxix. 15. Blind — Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Matt, xxiii. 24. Blind — The school -boy heat. The blind hysterics of the Celt. Tennyson, In Memoriam, can. viii. Blind— And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Matt. XV, 14. Blind — ^The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. Byron, The Bride of Abydos, can. ii. st. 2. Bliss — Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall ! Cowper, The Task, The Garden, bk. iii. Bliss — Alas ! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain ; The heart can ne'er a transport know That nevei feela a pain. Lyttelton, Song. BLISS-^BLOOD, SI Bliss — Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 4a. Bliss^ That inward eve Which is the bliss of solitude. Wordsworth, / wandered Lonely. Bliss — Bliss was it in that daion to he alive, But to be young was very heaven. Wordsworth, The Prelude. Bliss — Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. W. Collins, Eclogue, i. 1. s. Blockhead — The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope, An Essay on Criticism, pt. iii. 1. ss. Blood — You cannot get blood out of a stone.* Old Proverb. Blood — Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. Wordsworth, Tint em Abbey. Blood — ^The blood rvill follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. Young, The Revenge, act v. sc. i. Blood — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. Dr. J. Donne, Funeral Elegies on the Progress of the Sold, 1. 245. Blood — What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? [iv. 1. Jic. Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. Wood — The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. Anonymous. Blood — For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. sc. s. Blood — Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands. Byron, Don Juan, can. ix. st. bo. • Nemo potest nado vestimenta deirahere.— Latin Proverb, A Scotch saying similar to this is, " It is ill takin' the breeks off a Highlandman," «.#. he has do breeks — Eo. la BLOOD— BLOW. Blood— Thoughts that would thick my blood. Shaks. Wintei's Tale, act i. sc. t Blood— The blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. a Blood — Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood ; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former boimty fed ; On the hare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. Dryden, Alex. Feast, 1. rs. Blood — Whoso sheddeth mxm's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Gen. ix. e. Bloody — Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. Bloom — O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love. Gray, The Progress of Poesy, pt. i. st. s. Bloomed — Bloomed in the mnter of her days. Like Glastonbury thorn. Sir C. Sedley, Songs. Blot — For his chaste muse employed her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could unsh to blot. Lord Lyttelton, Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. Blot — ^E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art, the art to blot. Pope, Imit. of Hor, bk. ii. epistle i. 1. 280. Blow — Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 2. Blow — Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves mu^t strike the blow? Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage^ can. ii. st. is. Blow — Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. Shaks. As You Like It, act ii. ac. 1. BLUE— BODKIN, fi§ Blue — " darkly, deeplt/, beautifully blue^* As some one somewhere sings about the sky. Byuon, Don Juan, can. iv. st. no. Blue — The sea, the sea, the open sea ! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! B. W. Procter, The Sea. Blunder — In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind. H. Moore, The Bas-Bleu. Blunder — It is a blunder; it is more than a crime : it is apolitical fault — words which I record hecause they have been repeated and attributed to others. J. Fouciifi, From his Memoirs,* Blushed — Rather the Roman come again, The Saxon, Norman, and the Dane ; In all the chains we ever wore We grieved, we sighed, we wept ; we never blushed before. CowiiET, Essay on the Protector. Blushing — Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man. To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms. And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iii. sc. 2. Boaat — Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast — Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam. His first, best country, ever is at home. Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1. 73. Boats — Vessels large may venture more, - But little boats should keep near shore, Franklin, Poor Bichard. Bobbed — And sat upon a rock, and bobbed for whale. W. King, Upon a Giant's Angling. Bodkin — There's the respect Tiiat makes calamity of so long life ; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despised love, the kw's delay. The insolence of oflRee, and the spurns That patient morit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin f who would fardels bear, * Thitt is said to have been previously used hj Talleyraud. H BODY—BOOK. To grunt and sweat under a weary life. But that the dread of something after death — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns — puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all : And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. And enterprises of great pith and moment. With this regard, their currents turn awry. And lose the name of action. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. i, Bodif — For of the soul the body form doth take ; For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser, Hymn in Honour of Beauty, 1. isa. Bond — Is it so nominated in the bond ? Shaks. Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. i. Bondman — Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak ; for him have I ofiended. Shaks. Julius Casar, act iii. sc. », Bones — Full fathom five thy father lies ; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes ; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth sufier a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Shaks. Tempest, act i. sc. 2. Bones — For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed ap- pear beautiful outward, but are mthin fidl of dead men's bones. Matt, xxiii. 27. Bones — The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones. Shaks. Julius CcBsar, act iii. sc. 8. Bones — An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity ! Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iv. sc. 2. Booby — When yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another ? Gay, The Mother, Nurse, and Fairy. Book — He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, net iv. sc. 2. BOOK— BOOKS. 66 Book — As good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who de- stroys a good book kills reason itself. Miltok, Areopagitica, Book — Your /ace, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. so. 6. Book — Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves. And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves. Hood, The Seasons. Book — A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on pui^>08e to a life beyond life. Milton, Areopagitica. Book — Often hare I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure, Sighed to think I read a book, Only read jjerhaps by me. Words. {To the Small Celandine) From Poems of Fancy. Book — ^The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled. Is from the book of honour razed quite. And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. Shaks. Sonnets, son. xxv. Book — Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print ; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't. Byrox, English Bards and Scotch Beviewers, 1. 6i. Books — Too careless often as our years proceed, What friends we sort with or what books we read. CowPBR, Tirocinium, 1. lis* Books — Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever craving for their food. Crabbe, TTie Borough, letter xxiv. School* Books — He might have been a clever man by nature, but he laiA 80 many books on his head that his brain had not room to move. Robert Hall, Life Books — Of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Eccles. xii. 12. Books — Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Fuller {The Virtuous Lady), Of Books. Books — Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Bacon, Ess. i. Of Studies. 56 BOOKS— BORN. Books — ^Up ! up ! my friend, and quit your hookkf Or surely you'll grow double ; Up ! up ! my friend, and clear your looks ; Why all this toil and trouble ? Wordsworth, The Tables Turned. Booka — ^The spectacles of books. Dryden, Essay on Dramatic Poetry. Books — My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me. Moore, The Time I've Lost, Sfc. Books — Books which are no books. Lamb, Detached Thoughts mi Books. Books — Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning loiser grow without his books. CowPER, Task,h'k. vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Bo-peep — Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then. As if they played at Bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.* Herrick, On her Feet. Bores — Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored. Byron, Don Juan, can. xiii. st. 95. Bom — Bom only to consume the fruits of the earth, f Horace (Smart). Bom — ^And better had they ne'er been bom, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. Scott, The Monastery, vol. i. ch. 13. Bom — Bom in the garret, in the kitchen bred. Byron, A Sketch. Bom — I was not bom under a rhyming planet. SiiAKS. Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc. 2. • Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out,* As if they feared the light j Bat oh ! she dances such a way, No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight. Sir John SucklincJj Ballad on a Wedding, t Fruges consumere nati. — Hob. Ep. ii. bk. i. 1. 27. • Herrick plagiarised and spoilt this. BORN— BOSTON. 57 Bom — Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many a flower is bom to blush unseen^ And waste its sweetness on tlie desert air. Gray, JSlegy in a Country Churchyard. Borne — In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying. Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. Scott, Marmion^ can. iii. gt. lo. Borrower — 'Sexther a borrower nor a lender be i For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Shaks. Hamlet, act i. sc. s. Borrowing — He that goes a borrowing goes a sorroudng. Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack. Bosom — No farther seek his merits to disclose. Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The besom of his Father and his God. Gray's Elegy, The Epitaph. Bosom — O bosom, black as death I limed soul, that, struggling to be free. Art more engaged ! Help, angels ! Make assay ! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-bom babe ! Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. s. Bosom — My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throno. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act t. sc. i. Bosomed — Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide. Towers and battlements it sees. Bosomed high in tufted trees. Milton, L* Allegro, 1. 76. Bosoms — Come home to men's business and bosoms. Bacon, Dedication to the Essays, ed. 1615. Boston — Solid men qf Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no deep potations. Morris, Billy Pitt and the Farmer. 68 BOTANIZE— BOURBON. Botanize — One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. Wordsworth, A Poeis Epitaph, st. s. Both'-^kad. both were young, and one was beautiful. Byeon, The Dream, St. 9, Both — Both were so young, and one so innocent. That bathing passed for nothing. Byron, Don Juan, can. ii. v. its. Bottle — Should next campaign Send us to Him that made us, boys, We're free from pain ; But should we remain, A bottle and kind landlady Soothes all again. Gen. Wolfe (The Night before his Death). Bottom — Bless thee, Bottom ! Mess thee ! thou art translated. Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act iii. so. i. Bounds — ^Not stepping o'er the bounds oj modesty. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iv. sc. 2. Bounty — Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n did a recompense as largely send : He gave to Mis'ry, all he had, a tear. He gained from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. Gray's Elegy, The Epitaph. Bourbon — Nobles and heralds, by your leave. Here lies what once was Matthew Prior ; The son of Adam and of Eve : Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? Prior, A Jocular Epitaph on Himself,* * Johnnie Carpegie lais here, Descendit of Adam & Eve. Gif ony man can gang hieher, I'se willing gie him leve. Quoted by Mr. Singer, Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. i. p. 482. Prior wrote the following for his own tombstone : — " To me was given to die. To thee 'tis given To live ; alas I one moment sets us even : — Mark I how impartial is the gift of Heaven !" BOWELS— BRAGGART. 69 Boweh — Earth, behold, I kneel upon thy bosom. And bend my flowing eyes to stream upon Thy face, imploring thee that thou wilt yield ; Open thy bowels of compassion. CoNGREVE, Mourning Bride f act iv. 8C. T. Bowels — And that it was great pity, so it was. That villanous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth. Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns. He would himself have been a soldier. Shaks. K. Henry TV, part i. act i. sc. t. Bowels — Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shaks. K. Richard III, act v. sc. a. Bowl — ^There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. PoPB, Imitations of Horace, bk. ii. sat. i. 1. 127. Bowl — Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Ecclesiastes xii. 6. Boy^-K\i, happy years ! once more who would not be a boy ? Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. ii. st. 28. Boy — ^Though the deep heart of existence beat for evor like a bot/s. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. Boyish — ^The time hath been, a boyish blushing time. When modesty was scarcely held a crime. Chas. Churchill, Times, 1. i. Boys — And when with envy time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys. You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Fkrcy's Rsliques, Winefreda. Bozrah — Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah ? Isaiah Ixiii. 1. Braggart — 0, I could play the woman with mine eyes. And braggart with my tongue ! Shaks. Macbeth, act \y. m. •. 60 BRAIN— BRA VE, Brain — Is this a dagger which I see hefore me. The handle toward my hand ? * * • Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? Shaks. Macbeth, act ii. sc. i Brain — Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? Shaks. Much Ado About Nothing^ act ii. sc. 3. Brain — Brain him mth his lady's fan. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. a. Brain — Memory, the warder of the brain. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. Brain — ^Thia is the very coinage of your brain. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. Brain — Within the book and volume of my brain. Ibid, act i. sc. 8. Brains — Cudgel thy brains no more about it. Ibid, act v. sc. i. Brains — God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains. Shaks. Othello, act ii, sc. 8. Brains — The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die. And there an end ; but now they rise again. With twenty mortal murders on their crowns. And push us from our stools. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. sc. 4. Brains — "What do you mix your colours with, Mr. Opie?'* " With brains, sir." De. J. Beowne, Hor(B Subseciva. Brandy — Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men ; but h© who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Johnson, BoswelVs Life of Johnson. Brass — Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. Shaks. K. Henry VIII, act iv. sc. 2. Brass — As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. I Cor. xiii. i. Brave — ^None but the brave deserves the fair. Deyden, Alexander's Feast, 1. is. Brave — How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blessed? Collins, Ode in 1746, Brave — The combat deepens. On, ye brave. Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Campbell, Hohenlinden. BREA CH—BREA TIL 61 Breach — But, io my mind, — though I am native here, And to the manner horn, — it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the ohservance. Shaks. Hamlet f act i. sc. 4. Bread — Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. Shaks. K. Henry V, act iv. sc. 1. Bread — Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in tecret is pleasant. Prov. ix. 17. Bread — Man shall not live by bread alone. Matt. vr. 4. Bread — Cast thy bread upon the waters ; for thou shalt find it after many days. Eccles. xi. 1. Bread — He was the Word that spake it ; He took the bread and brake it ; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it.* Dr. Donne, Div. Poems on the Sac. Break — Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. Tbnnyson, Poems. BreaJ(fast — ^You may as well say that's a valiant flea that dare eat hia breakfast on the lip of a lion. Shaks. K. Henry V, act iii. sc. 7. Breast — He that has light within his oiati clear breast May sit i' th* centre and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts. Benighted walks under the mid-day sun. Milton, Comus, 1. sn. Breastplate — What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. SuAKS. K. Henry VI, part ii. act iii. 8C. s. Breath — 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, thejr country's pride. When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. u. • Commonly attribnted to Qaeen ElizahetL in her yoath ; wrongly qaotod In Goldsmith's England, 38tb Edition. 62 BREATH— BRETHREN. Breath — When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies). Montgomery, The Wanderer of Svoitzerland. Breath — One more unfortunate Weary of breathy Rashly importunate. Gone to her death. Hood, The Bridcte of Sighs. Breathes — ^And all the landscape — earth, and sky, and sea— Breathes like a bright-eyed face that laughs out openly. Leigh Hunt, Rimini, can. i. breathes — Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said. This is my own, my native land ? Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, can, vi. st. i. Breathing — But animate with deity alone, In deathless glory lives the breathing stone. MiLMAN, Belvidere Apollo, 1. 12. Breech — As quick as lightning, in the breech. Just in the place where honour's lodged, As wise philosophers have judged. Because a kick in that place more Hurts honour than deep wounds hefore. Butler, Hudihras, pt. ii. can. iii. 1. io67. Breeches — A shilling, breeches, and chimaeras dire. Phillips, Splendid Shilling, 1. 7. Breeches — Without black velvet breeches, what is man ? Bramston, Man of Taste. Breeches — ^King Stephen was a worthy peer. His breeches cost him but a croum ; He held them sixpence all too dear, With that he called the tailor lown. Shaks. Othello, act ii. sc. 3. Breed — Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods. Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act i. sc. 2. Brentford — United, yet divided, twain at once — So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne. CowPER, The Task, bk. i. TTie Sofa. Brethren — Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! Psalm exxxiii. 1, BREVITY— BRIGHT. 61 Brevity — Brevity is the soul of wit, Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. t. Bribe — Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. Gkay, On his Own Character, Bricks — Sir, he made a chimney in my &ther's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. Shaks. K. Henry VI, part ii. act iv. sc. s. Bride — Beautiful Venice ! bride of the Sea. J. E. Cabpbntsr, Songs. Bridge — I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand. Btron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iv. st. i. Brief — Hamlet. Is this the prologue, or the poesy of a ring? Ophelia. 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet. As woman's love. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. a. Brief— Bri^ as the lightning in the collied night. That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath power to say. Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright thingn come to confusion, Shaks. Midsummer-Night's Dream, act i. ac. i. Briers — 0, how full of briers is this morking-day world .' ^HAKB.As You Like It, act i. sc. s. Brigade — " Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns !" he said : Into the valley of death Rode the Six Hundred, Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade, Bright — Failed the bright promise qfyour early days, Heber, Palestine, Bright — By Heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. Shaks. King Henry IV, part i. act i. BC« i. Bright — Bright Apollo's lute stnmg with his hair. Shaks. Love's Labour*s Lost, act iv. sc. t* 64 BRIGHT— BROOK Bright-^- 'Twere all one That I should love a bright particular star And think to wed it ; he is so above me. Shaks. All's Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. i Bright — There's not in the mde world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet, Moore, The Meeting of the Waters. BrigJit-eyed— Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that bum. Gray, The Progress of Poesy, part iii.st. 8. Brightest — Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. Heber, Christmas Hymn. Britannia — Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain-waves. Her home is on the deep. Campbell, Ye Mariners of England. Britannia — Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves ; Britons never will be slaves. THOMSOn, Alfred, act ii. sc. 6. Broad-based — Broad-based upon her people's vAll, And compassed by the inviolate sea. Tennyson, Dedication of Poems. Broadcloth — An honest man, close buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth unthout, and a warm heart within. CowPER, Epistle to Joseph Hill. Brook — Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brooJc and river meet^ Womanhood and childhood fleet. Longfellow, Maidenhood. Brook — The moon looks On many brooks ; The brook can see no moon but this. MooRE, While gazing on the Moon's Light, Brook — K noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June. Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, part v. Brook — Oh for a seat in some poetic nook. Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook I - ., ■/. "H-Vvr, Politics and Poetics. BRITHER-^BUCKRAM. 66 Brither — His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony; Tarn lo ed him like a vera brither: They had been fou for weeks together. Burus, Tarn O' Shunter. Brother — Affliction's sons are brothers in distress ; A brother to relieve, how exquisite tlie bliss ! Burns, A Winter's Night. Brother's keeper — Am I my brothers keeper f Gen. iv. ». Brotherhood — Sweet aie the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. BIeats, Epistles. Brotherhood — Monastic brotherhood, upon rock aerial. Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. iii. Brothers — Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping some- thing new. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, Brows — Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Burns, Tarn CyShanter. Bruised — A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. Isaiah xlii. s. Brutus — For Brutus is an honourable man ; So are they all, all honourable men. Shaks. Julius CcBsar, act iii. sc. «. Bubbles — The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 8. Bubbling — A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony. Byron, Don Juan, can. ii. st. 6s. Bucket — TA« old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Eliza Cook.* Buckets — From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells. And growing old in drawing nothing up. CowpKR, The Task, bk. iii. The Garden. Buckram — Thou knowcst my old ward ; here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me. SiiAKS. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. * Also claimed by an American anthor, Woodwortb. F 66 BUD — BURDEN. Bud — Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came witli friendly care ; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. Coleridge, Epitaph on an Infants Bvgle-hom — Where, where was Eoderick then ? One blast upon his bugle-horn Were worth a thousand men. Scott, The Lady of the Lake, can. vi. st. is. Bugles — Our bugles sang truce, for the night cloud had lowered, And sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. Campbell, The Soldier^ s Dream. Builded — He builded better than he knew. Emerson, The Problem. Built — I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house. Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, *' soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is well." Tennyson, Palace of Art. Built — He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Milton, Lycidas, 1. lo. Built — BuUt God a church, and laughed His word to scorn. Cowper, Retirement. Built — Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. Milton, Lycidas, 1. loi. Bulwark — ^The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament ; it is its ancient and natural strength, — the floating bulwark of our island. Sir W. Blackstone, Commentaries, vol. i. p. 4i8. Burden — ^Which have borne the burden and heat of the day. Matt. XX. 12. Burden — ^Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides in verse, and hitches in a rhyme ; Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song. Pope, Imitations of Horace, bk. ii. sat. i. 1. 76. Burden — That blessed mood. In which the burden of the mystery. In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened. Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, BURDEN— BY. 67 Burden — For every man shall bear his oum burden. Gal. ri. s. Burden — And the grasshopper shall be a burden. Eccles. xii. a. Burglary — Flat burglary aa over was committed ! SiiAKS. Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. 2. Burnished — Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. SuAKS. Mer. of Venice, act ii. sc. i. Burnt — The light aerial gallery, golden railed, Burnt like a fringe of fire. Tennyson, Palace of Art. Burst — Let me not burst in ignorance ! SiiARS. Hamlet, act i. sc. 4. Bttsh — Good wine needs no bush. Shaks. As You Like It, epilogue. Bush — Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an oflScer. Shaks. K. Henry VI, part iii. act v. sc. «, Bttskd — ^Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it givetli light unto all that are in the house. Matt. v. u. Busy — Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. Milton, L' Allegro, 1. 117. Butter — She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judges v. at. Butterfly — Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel f Pope, Prol. to the Sat. 1. 307. Button — On Fortune's cap we're not the very button. Shaks. Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2. Buy — Buy the truth, and sell it not. Prov. xxiii. as. By — By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed. By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned. By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned. Pope, To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. CA BINED—CJESAR, JABINED — Cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. so. 4. Cadmean — A Cadmean victory.* Greek Proverb. CcBsar — Imperious C(Bsar,dead, and turned to clay, Migbt stop a hole to keep the wind away. SiiAKS. Hamlet, act v. sc. i. CcBsar — Ccesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third (" Treason ! " cried the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. Patrick Henry, Speech, 1765. C<2sar — Put a tongue In every wound of Ccesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. Shaks. Julius CcBsar, act iii. sc. 2. CcBsar — Not that I loved Cmsar less, but that I loved Rome more. Ibid, act iii. sc. 2. CcBsar — But yesterday, the word of Ccesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there. And none so poor to do him reverence. Shaks. Julius CtBsar, act iii, sc. 2. C grew tocrether, Like to a double ckern/, soeming partcck tha^ clicked behind the door. The chest^eontriyed a^ouble debt to pay, \ bed by night, a clfffst of drawers by day. l .' Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. isn. Chevring — Pacing through the forest, Cheunng the food of sweet and bitter fancy. Shaks. As You Like It, act iv. sc. s. Chickens — What ! all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop ? Siiaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. s. Chickens — To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched. Butler, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. iii. 1. am Chief's pride — Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. Pope, Ind'ations of Horace, bk. iv. ode 9. Chiel — If there's a hole in a' your coats, I lede you tent it ; A chid 's among you taking notes. And faith he'll prent it. Buens, On Capt. Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland. Chad — Grief fills (he room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me. Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words. Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffi* out his vacant garments with his form, SuAKS. King John, act iii. sc. «. 80 CHILD. Child — I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Wordsworth, The Excursion, bk. iv. Child — "He is a true-born child from K'atur's mould!" said Pogram with enthusiasm. " He is a true-born child of this free hemisplierel verdant as the mountains of our country; bright and flowing as our mineral Licks ; unspiled by withering conventionalities, as air our broad and boundless Perearers ! Rough he may be : so air our barrs. Wild he may be : so air our buffalers. But he is a child oj Natur\ and a child of freedom; and liis boastful answer to the despot and the tyrant is, that his bright home is in the settin' sun." Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, chap, xxxiv. Child — On parent knees, a naked, new-bom child. Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep. Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep. Sir W. Jones, From the Persian. Child — A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death ? Wordsworth, We are Seven. Child — ^And listens like a three-years child. Wordsworth, Lines added to the Ancient Mariner. Child — It is a wise father that knows his own child.* Shaks. Mer. of Venice, act ii. sc. 2 Child — The child is father of the man. Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps Up. * oi) yaq TTw n; lov yovov auroj avgyvtti.-^ODYSSEY, bk. i. 1. 216. " No one ever knew his own father." Buckley's ZTomer. Pointed out to me by Mr. Thomas L'Estrange, of Donegal. Shakspere also says : — Art thou his father ? Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may believe her. CHILD— CHI LDBEN. 81 CkUd — When I was a child, / spake as a child, i Cor. xiii. ii. Child — Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure, He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor. Holmes, Urania, Gold — Love is a boy bv poets styled : Then spare the rod and spoil the child* BuTLEK, Hudibras, pt. ii. can. i. 1. 84s. ChUd — How sharper than a serpent^s tooth it is To have a thankless child! Shaks. K. Lear, act i. sc. 4, Child — Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. «. Child's heart — Old wishes, ghosts of broken plans, And phantom hopes assemble ; And that child's heart within the man's Begins to move and tremble. Tennysoit, Will. Waterproof, Child 's sob — But the chUd 's sob curseth deeper in the silence Than the strong man in his wrath. E. B. Browking, Cry of Children. Childhood — I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days — All, all are gone, the old fiimiliar faces. Lamb, Old Familiar Faces. Childhood — Childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Milton, Paradise Regained, bk, iv. 1. aao. Childhood *s hour — O, ever thus, from childhood 's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower. But 'twas the first to fade away. MooBE, The Fire Worshippers. Childish — A childish waste of philosophic pains. CowPER, Tirocinium, 1. 76. Children — Children know, Instinctive taught, the friend or foe. Scott, Lady of the Lake, can ii. s. i4. Children — Her children arise up, and call her blessed. Prov. xxxi, ». * He that sparetb bU rod, hatetb bU iou.—Prov. xiii. flA. G 82 CHILDREN^CHLORIS. Children — True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 4. Children — As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Milton, Paradise Regained, bk. iv. 1. sso. Children — Men are but children of a larger growth* Deyden, All for Love, prologue. Children — Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue. Young, The Revenge, act v. sc. 2. Children — For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. L^cke xvi. 8. Children — Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. Matt. ii. is. ChimcBras — Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimceras dire. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. ii. 1. 628. Chimes — We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. 2. Chimney-comer — He cometh unto you with a tale which holdetli children from play, and old men from the chimney-comer. SiE P. Sidney, The Defence of Poesy. Chinks — The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed. Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Waller, Verses upon his Divine Poesy. Chin — Her lips were red, and one was thin. Compared with that was next her chin ; Some bee had stung it newly. Sir J. Suckling, On a Wedding, Chloris — Ah, Chloris ! could I now but sit As unconcerned as when Your infant beauty could beget Nor happiness nor pain. SiE C. Sedley, The Mulberry Garden. * They (men) are but children too, though they have grey hairs and are of » larger size. — Senbca, De Jrd, cap. viii. CBOOSE— CHURCH. 81 Choose — Misses ! tho tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry — Choose not alone a proper motet But proper time to marry. CowPER, Pairing Time Anticipated, Choose — And choose your author as you choose your friend. Roscommon, Translated Verse. Chord — There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melanchdy. Hood, Ode to Melancholy, Chord — There is in souls a sympathy with sounds ; And as the mind is pitched, the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies. How soil the music of those village bells. Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet ! Cowr£a, Task, bk. vi. Winder Walk at Noon. Christ — We kind o* thought Christ went agin war and pillage. And that eppyletts worn't the best mark of a Saint. Lowell, Biglow Papers. Christian — But it's curus Christian dooty, This ere cuttin' folks's throats. Ibid. Christian — A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. J. C. Hare, Guesses at Truth, Christian — A Christian is the highest style of man. Young, Night Thoughts, night iv. 1. 788. Christians — Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. Byron, Don Juan, can. i. st. 8.1. Christmas — At Christmas play, and make good cheer. For Christmas comes but once a year. TussBR, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, chap. xii. Chrysolite — One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shaks. Othello, act r. sc. t. Church — Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will nerer mark the marble with his name. Pope, Moral Essays, ep. iii. 1. an 84 . CHUR CH— CIVET. Church — To kirk the nar, from God more far, Has been an old-said saw ; And he that strives to touch a star, Oft stumbles at a straw. Spenser, Shepherd's Calendar, Thomalin /oq. Church-door — Rom. Courage, man ! the hurt cannot be much. Afer. No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church- door ; but 'tis enough. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. i. Churches — Why are our churchy shut with jealous care, Bolted and barred against our bosom's yearning, Save for the few short hours of Sabbath prayer With the bell's toll statedly returning ? Why are they shut ? Horace Smith, Why are thej/ Shut f Churchyards — 'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. Shaks. Ham7e^, actiii. sc. 2. Cimmerian — Melt, and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul ! Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, pt. ii. 1. 268. Circumlocution — If another Gunpowder Plot had been discovered half an hour before the lighting of the match, nobody would have been justified in saving the parliament, until there had been half a score of boards, half a bushel of minutes, several sacks of official memoranda, and a family-vault full of un- grammatical correspondence on the part of The Circumlocution Office. Charles Dickens, Little Dorritt, chap. x. Circumstance — The purpose firm is equal to the deed : Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly : angels could no more. Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. I. 9c, Cities — Far from gay cities and the ways of men. Pope, Odyssey, bk. xiv. I. 410. Citizens — Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. Lowell, The Capture. City — Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Matt. v. 14. Civet — Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. Shaks. K. Lear, act iv. sc. e. CIVIL— CLOCK. U Civii — Civil disseimon is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of tlie commonwealth. SiiAKS. K. Henry VI, part i. act v. sc. i. Claims — From yon blue heaven above us bent. The grand oUl gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Clapper-clawing — Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing. Butler, Hudibras, part ii. can. ii. 1. 79 Classic — Poetic fields encompass me around. And still I seem to tread on classic ground. Addison, A Letter from Italy. Clay — C^ay and clay differ in dignity. R. W. Emerson, Conduct of Life. Clay — Happy he With such a mother ! faith in womankind Beats with his bloo. Content — Virtue she finds too painfid an endeavour. Content to dwell in decencies for ever. Pope, Mot. Ess. ep. ii. 1. 1«. Contented — When one is contented, there is no more to be desired ; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. Cervantes, Don Quixote, pt. i. bk. iv. ch. 29. Contentious — A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a con- tentious woman are alike. Prov. zxvii. i«. Contentment — The noblest mind the best contentment has. Spenser, Fain/ Queen, bk. i. can. i. st. ss. Contests — What dire offence from amorous causee springs : What mighty contests rise from Iriinal things f Pope, The Rape oftht Lock, can. i. 1. l Continual— ^maW have continual plodders ever won. Save base authority from others' books. Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act i. so. l Contortions — It has all the contortions of the sybil without the inspiration.* Burke, Priors Life of Burke. Contradiction— Woman's at best a contradiction still. Pope, Moral Essays, ep. ii. I. 270. Conversation's burrs — And, when you stick on conversation's burrs. Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful icrs. Holmes, Untnia, Conversing — With thee conversin/j, I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iy. 1. ssq. • Sneaking of Croft's imitation of Johnson's style, he said, ♦♦ No, no, it is not • gooa imitation of Johnson ; it has all his pomp vithont his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak withoat its strength ; it has all the contortions of th« •ybil withont the inspiration." — ^4 CONVEY— COT. Convey — Convey, the wise it call. Steal ! foh ! a fico for the phrase ! Shaics. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i, sc. 8. Cool — Here in cool grot and mossy cell, We rural fays and fairies dwell. Shenstonb, In his Garden at the Leasotoe* Cool — His cooks, with long disuse, their trade forgot ; Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1. 6» Com — ^Until a man might travel twelve stout miles. Or reap an acre of his neighbour's com. Words. The Brothers, Comer — Sits the wind in that corner? Shaks, Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. 3 Coronets — Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets. And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Corporations — They {corporations) cannot commit trespass nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls. Sir E. Coke, Case of Sutton^ s Hospital, lo rep. p. 39. Correspondent — I will be correspondent to command. And do my sp'riting gently. Shaks. Tempest, act i. sc, 2. Corsair^ s nam£ — He left a corsair's name to other times. Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. Byron, The Corsair, can. iii. St. 24. Cortez — Then felt I like some watcher of the skies. When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien. J. Keats, Sonnet xi. Costard — ^The rational hind. Costard. Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act i. sc. 3. Cot — Mine be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear ; A willowy brook, that turns a mill. With many a fall, shall linger near. Sam. Rogers, A Wish. COTTAGE— COURSE. M Cottage — He stood beside a cottage lone, And listened to a lute, 0:ie summer's eve when the hreeze was gone. And the nightingale was mute. T. K. Hervey, The Devil's Progren. Couch — Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy gjave Like one tliat wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Beyant, Thanatopsis. Couiisettors — In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. Prov. xi. M. Counterfat — Look here, upon this picture, and on this : The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow ! Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to tlireaten and command. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. i. Country — God made the country, and man made the town.* CowPER, The Task, bk. i. The Sofa. Country — ^True patriots all ; for be it understood. We left our country for our country* s good. From the " Prologue written for the opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796." CourUrjfs cause — Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws. And asks no omen but his country* s cause. Pope, Translation of the Iliad, bk. xii. Courage — For courage mounteth with occasion. Shaks. K. John, act ii. sc. i. Courage — Screw your courage to the sticking-place. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 7. Course — I have fought a good fight, / have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Tim. iv. 7. Course — Westward the course of etnpire takes its way, The four first acts already past ; A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offepring is the last. Bishop Berkeley, On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America. * 8«e alto qaotstion from Cowley, p. 69.— Ed. 96 COURSE— CRADLES, Course — For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. Shaks. Midsummer- Nighf s Dream, oct i. sc. l Courtesy — I am the very pink of courtesy. Shaks. Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 4. Coventry — A mad fellow met me on the way, and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets, and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scare- crows. I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat ! Nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on ; for, indeed, I had the most of them out of prison. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act iv. sc. 2. Coward — I was a coward on instinct. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. Coward — ^When all the blandishments of life are gone. The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. Dr. G. Sewell, The Suicide. Coward — TTiou slave, thou tvretch, thou coward, Thou little valiant, great in villany ! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety ! Shaks. K. John, act iii. sc. 1. Cowards — Cowards die many times before their deaths : The valiant never taste of death but once. Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act ii. sc. «. Cowards — A plague of all cowards ! I say. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act ii. sc. 4. Crabtree — With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crabtree and old iron rang. Butler, Hudibras, pt. i. can. ii. 1. 83i. Crack — What ! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom ? Shaks. Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. Cradle — ^A little rule, a little sway, . A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. Dyer, Grongar Hill. Cradles — Death borders upon our birth, and our cradles stand in the grave. Bishop Hall, Epistles, dec. iii. ep. 2. CRANNY— CREBILLON. VI Cranny — For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost. We seek it, ere it come to light. In every cranny but the right. Cowpkb, The Retired Cat, Crash — The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. Abdisok, Cato, act v. se. u Crazy — Whatever crazy sorrow saith. No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. TBirirrsON, TTie Two Voices. Creation — Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. Young, Night Thoughts^ night i. 1. ». Creator — Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Eccles. xii. i. Creature — A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles. Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. WoRDSWOBTH, A Portrait, Creature — No creature smarts so little as a fool. Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 1. 84. Creature — Destroy his fib, or sophistry — in vain, The creature 's at his dirty work again. Ibid. I. n. Creatures — That we can call these delicate creatures ours. And not their appetites. Shaks. Othello, act iii. sc. 8. Creatures — Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iv. 1. en* Creatures — Like following life through creatures you dissect. You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. I. », Crebillon — Now as the Paradisaical pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. Gray, To Mr. West, third series, letter iv. u # CBEDITOR— CRITICS, Creditor — Spirits are not finely touched, But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor y Both thanks and use. Shaks. Meas.for Meas. act i. sc. i. Credulity — Ye who listen ivith credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the defi- ciencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Johnson, Rasselas, chap. i. Creed — Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. Byeon, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can, iii, st. lor. Creed — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn ; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea. Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. WoRDSwoKTH, Miscell. Sonnets, pt. i. 83. Cricket — ^The cricket on the hearth. Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 82. Crime — Where crim£ is crowned, where g^iilt is glory. Nation Newspaper. Crimes — Small habits, well pursued, betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. Hannah Moore, The Bas-Bleu. Crimes — Tremble, thou wretch, Thou hast within thee undivulged crimes, Uuwhipped of justice ! Shaks. King Lear, act iii. sc. 2. Crispian — This day is called t\\e feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day, and comes safe home. Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. Shaks. King Henry V, act iv. sc. 8. Critical — For I am nothing t if not critical. Shaks. Othello, act ii, sc. i. Critics — The gyse now a dayes Of some iangling iayes. Is to discommend That they cannot amend. Skelton, Bake of Phil. Sparow, conclusion. CROPS— CROTCH. 99 Crops — Pleased to the last, he crops the Jlowery foodf And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Pope, Essay on Man, ep. i. I. as. Cross — On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Pope, The Rape of the Lock, can. ii. 1. r. Crotchets — Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. Shaks. Merry Wives of Windsor y act ii. sc. i. Crow — The bloLke Crowe's foot shall appear in their eyes, or the blacke oxe tread on their foote. John Lilly, Euphues, bk. i. c. i. Crowd — AU crowd who foremost shall be damned to fame. PoPB, The Dunciad, bk. iii. 1. ise. Crown — Uneasy lies the head that wears a croum.* Shaks. K. Henry IV, part ii. act iii. sc. i. Crown — ^The hoary head is a croum of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Prov. xvi. si. Crown — Blessed is the man that endureth temptation ; for when he is tried, he shall receive the croum of life. James i. 12. Crown — A. mind content both croum and kingdom is. R. Grebne, Farewell to Folly, Song. Crown — This is truth the poet sings, f That a sorrow's croum of sorrow is remembering happier things. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. Crown — Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered. Wisdom of Solomon ii. 8. Cruel — Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. Thomson, The Seasons, Winter, 1. 393. Cruel — I must be cruel only to be kind. Shaks. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4. Crumbs — Yet the dogs eat qf the crumbs which fall from their masters* table. Matt. xv. 27. Crutch — ^Wept o'er hk wounds, or, tales of sorrow done. Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, 1. i87. • How sweet a thing it U to wear a crown. Within whose circuit is Elysinm, And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. Shaks. X^g Henry VI, part iii. act i. we. 2. 4 Dante. 100 CRY— CURRENT. Cry — Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war 1 Shaks. Julitts C(Bsar, act iii. sc. i. Crystal Palace — Crystal Palace, the. D. Jerrold, Punch, issi. Cuckoo — ^I sing like the cuckoo in June, to be laugh'd at. T. Dekker, The Gull's Hornbook, procemium. Cuckoo — Hark how the jolly cuckoos sing. Cuckoo to welcome in the Spring ! Cuckoo to welcome in the Spring! John Lilly, Alexander and Campaspe. Cucumber — When the wife of tlie great Socrates threw a — hum !^ threw a teapot at his erudite head, he was as cool as a cucumber. CoLMAN, Heir-at-Law. Cunning — If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. Psalm cxxxvii. 6. Cvnning — An I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damn'd ere I'd have challenged him. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 4. Cup — Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup. And I'll not look for wine. Ben Jonson, TTie Forest, To Celia. mP — There is no child that is borne into this wretched worlde, but before it doeth sucke the mother* s milke, it taketh first a soope of the cup of errour. RiCHE, His Farewell to Militarie Profession, Apolonius and Silla, issi. Cupid — Love looks not with the eyes, but witli the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Shaks. Midsummer- Nights s Dream, act i. sc. i. Cur — And in that town a dog was found. As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. Goldsmith, Elegy on a Mad Dog. Curled — The wealthy curled darlings of our nation. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. a. Current — He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's unll. SiE Sam. Tuke, Adventures of Five Hours, act v. sc. s. CURRENT— CUSTOM. 101 Current — IIow small of all that human hearts endure^ That part which laws or, \i^jicre. can causedr (tui^ ! Still to ourselves itC e^ery pl&ce cb^signe'd * Our own felicity we'make or find. ^ , , With secret cai«Se, whiclj no: 16ud.^tai«ej— Meadows trim with daisies pied. MihTOV, L' Allegro, 1. 7«. Dale — ^The intelligible forms of ancient poets. The fair humanities of old religion. The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piney mountain. Or forests by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and watery depths—all these have vanished : They live no longer in the faith of reason. CoLEMDGB, Wallenstein, pt. i. act ii. sc. 4. Fair daffodils, we weep to MN Yon haate away so soon t Am vet the early rising snn Has not attained his noon. BoBKBT Hxaaicx. 104 DALLIANCE— DANCE. Dalliance — Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine. Himself the primrose ;>aiA of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. Shaks. Harriet, act i. oc. 8. DamierCs bed — The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Zeck's* iron crown and Danden*s bed of steel. To men remote from power, but rarely known, Leave reason, £uth, and conscience all our own. Goldsmith, Traveller, I. 436. Damn — ^Through whim (our critics) or by envy led. They damn those authors whom they never read. Churchill, Cand. 1. 67. Damn — Damn ivith faint praise, assent with civil leer. And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike. Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope, Prologue to the Satires, 1. 201. Damnable — Thou hast damnable iteration. Shaks. K. Henry IV, part i. act i. sc. 2. Damnation — And deal damnation round the land. Pope, Universal Prayer. Damned — 'Twas neither damned nor hissed, But as it were most civilly dismissed. Johnson, Prologues. Damsel — 'Twas when the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring. All on a rock reclined. Gay, What d'ye calVt ? act iv. sc. 8. Dan — I pity the man that can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren. Sterne, SentimentaJJoumey. Calais. Dan — This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid: Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms. The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act iii. sc. i. Dance — On unth the dance! let joy be unconfined. Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, can. iii. st. 22. • Gbldsmith owes these lines to Johnson. Gkorge Zeck, in 1514, waa punished by a red-hot iron crown for heading a revolt of Hongarians. Most editions of Gbldsmith insert the word Luke. DANGER— DARLING. 105 Danger — Out qfthia nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. Shaks. K. Henry IV, pt. i. act ii. so. t. Danger^ a night — The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart And the star of peace return. Campbkll, Ye Mariners q/Eng, Dangers — Upon this hint I spake : She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. SiiAKS. Othello, act i. so. s. Ikuud — A Daniel come to judgment I Yea, a Daniel ! SiiAKS. Mer. of Venice, act iv. sc. i. Dare — What man dare, I dare. Shaks. Macbeth, act iii. m. i. Dare — Dare to be true : nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs it most grows two thereby. G. Hbbbbet, The Church Porch, Dare — happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name : That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh For which we bear to live, or dare to die. Pope, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. i. Daring — Judicious drank, and greatly daring dined. PoPK, The Dunciad, bk. iv. 1. sis. Dark — What in ine is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support. That, to the highth of this great argument^ I may assert eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to men. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. i. 1. a. Darkness — How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of Silence through the empty-vaulted night ! At every fall smoothing the raven-doum Of Darkness till it smiled. Mii;roN, Comus, 1. 948. Darkness — Yet from those flameft No light, but rather darkness visible. M ilton. Par. Lost, bk. i. 1. at. Darling — And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Ta pride that apes humility. Coleridge, The DeviVs Thaughte, 106 DART— DA i\ Dart — ^Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse : Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Leam'd and fair and good as she, TVwe shall throw a dart at thee. Ben Jonson, Epitaph on the Countess oj" Pembroke. Daughter — Still harping on my daughter, Shaks. Ham, act ii. sc. 2. Daughters — I am all the daughters of my father* s house f And all the brothers too. Shaks. Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 4. David — ^And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. 2 Sam. xii. 7. David — Not only hating David, but the King. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. 1. 512. Davm — ^But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn ? Oh I when shall it daum on the night of the grave f Beattie, Hermit. Daws — But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. Shaks. Othello, act i. sc. i. Day — But 0, as to embrace me she inclined, I waked ; she fled ; and day brought back my night. Milton, Sonnets, son. xxiii. Day — And make each day a critic on the last. Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt. iii. 1. 12. Day — ** Fve lost a day," the prince who nobly cried Had been an emperor without his crown. Young, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. og- Day — Night's candles are burnt out, a,nd Jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. Shaks. Borneo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 6. Day — As merry as the day is long. Shaks. Much Ado about Nothing, act ii. sc. i. Day — Thus with tlie year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or mom. Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose. Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. iii. 1. 40. Day — In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. Shaks. Love's Labour's Lost, act v. sc. i- DAY— DAZZLES, 107 Day — Take therefore no thought for the morrow ; for the morrow ahall take thpught for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matt. ri. si. Day's march — Here in my body pent. Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A dat^a march nearer home. J. Montgomery, At Home in Heaven, Days — One of those heavenly days that cannot die. Wordsworth, Nutting, Days — Behold ! in Liberty's unclouded blaze We lift our heads, a race of other days. Charles Spraoue, Centennial Ode^ st. a. Days — Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. Wordsworth, To a Butterfly. Days — My days are srvifter than a weavers shuttle. Job vii. 8. Days — ^Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn fields. And thinking of the days that are no more. TfiNNTsoN, The Princes*, can. in Days — The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year. Of wailing winds, and naked woods. And meadows brown and sere. W. C. Bryant, The Death of the Flowers, Days — More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days. On eril days though fallen, and evil tongues. Milton, Paradise Lost, bk. vii. 1. ai. Day-star — So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed. And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. Milton, Lycidas, 1. xm. Dazzles — By the glare of false science betrayed. That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. J. Bkattu, The Uermat, 108 DAZZLING— DEA TH. Dazzling — Enjoy your clear wit, and gay rhetoric. That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. Milton, Comus, 1. »W). Dead — Our laws endure the torment of Mezentius. " The living die in the arms of the dead.'* Bacon, On the Ann. of the Law. Dead — Deadfiies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour. Eccles. x. i. Dead — He mourns the dead, who lives as they desire. TouNG, Night Thoughts, night ii. 1. 24. Dead — And Nicanor lay dead in his harness. 3 Mac. xv. 28. Dead — My days among the dead are passed ; Around me I behold. Where'er these casual eyes are cast. The mighty minds of old ; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. SouTHEY, Occasional Pieces, xviii. Dead — Those that he loved so long, and sees no more, Loved and still loves, — not dead, but gone before. Rogers, Human Life. Dead — ^This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. Mrs. Barbauld, A Summer's Evening Meditation. Dead — Let the dead past bury its dead. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life. Dear — Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes. Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.* Gray, The Bard, pt. i. st. i. Dearest — Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it ; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle. Shaks. Macbeth, act i. sc. 4. Death — How wonderful is death ! Death and his brother Sleep. P. B. Shelley, Queen Mab. Death — Be thou faithful unto death. Bev. ii. 10. • As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.— Shaks. Julius Ccesar, act ii. se. 1. DEA TIL 109 Death — Done to death by slanderous tongues. SuAKS. Much Ado about Nothing, act v. sc. u Death— Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be filled. Milton, Par. Lost, bk, ii. 1. sm. Death — Leaves have their time to fall. And flowers to wither at the North-wind's breath, And stars to set ; — but all. Thou hast all seasons for thine oam, O Death ! P. Hemaiys, The Hour of Death, Death — In the midst of life we are in death. The Burial Service. Death — There is death in the pot. 3 Kings iv. «. Death — To me the thought of death is terrible^ having such hold of Ufe: To yon it is not more than the sudden lifting of a latch, — Nought but a step into the open air out of a tent Already luminous with light that shines through its transparent folds. Longfellow, Golden Legend. Death — Let the world slide, let the world go : A fig for care, and a fig for woe ! If I can't pay, why, I can owe. And death makes equal the high and the low. John Heywood, Be Merry, Friends. Death — Death the gate of life. Milton, Par. Lost, bk. xii. 1. 671. Death — To er'ry man upon this earth Death Cometh soon or late. Macaulat, Horatius. Death — Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. Young, Night Thoughts, night t. 1. lou. Death — Man makes a Death, which Nature never made. Hid. 1. u. Death — Death rides on every passing breeze : He lurks in every flower. Hebeb, At a Funeral. Death — And you, brave Cobhnm ! to the latest breath Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. Pope, Moral Essays, ep. i. L ssa. Death — An