'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. 426 BLUSHING - see Bashfulness. From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, 427 Pt. iii. Line 13. Rowe: Tamerlane. Act i. Sc 1 The rising blushes, which her cheek o'erspread, 428 Gay: Dione. Act ii. Sc. 3. Pope: Epil. to Satire. Dialogue i. Line 136. Scott: Rokeby. Canto iii. St. 5. 430 What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? 431 Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh. BOASTING- - see Braggart. The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. 432 Bk. ii. Line 732. The man that once did sell the lion's skin, Shaks.: Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 4. Shaks.: Henry V. Act iv. Sc 3 Shaks.: King John. Act ii. Sc. 1 433 What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath? 434 Here's a large mouth, indeed, That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks, and seas; As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs. 435 Shaks.: King John. Act ii. Sc. 2 Nay, an thou❜lt mouth, Shaks.: Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1 I'll rant as well as thou. 436 A mad-cap ruffian, and a swearing Jack, That thinks with oaths to face the matter out. BOLDNESS. In conversation boldness now bears sway, BOND. Herbert: Temple. Church Porch St 34 I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak; I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more. 440 Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 3 BOOKISHNESS- - see Pedantry, Learning. 441 · Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 52. BOOKS see Authors, Reading. They are the books, the arts, the academes, that show, contain, and nourish all the world. 442 That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. 443 Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 3. A book! O rare one! 444 Shaks.: Cymbeline. Act v. Sc. 4. Was ever book containing such vile matter 445 Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc 2 I read books bad and good-some bad and good And merry books, which set you weeping when .446 Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh. Bk. i. Line 793 Mark, there. We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth 'Tis then we get the right good from a book. 447 Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh. Bk. i. Line 718 My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels. 448 Beaumont & Fletcher: The Elder Brother. Acti. Sc. 2. O books, ye monuments of mind, concrete wisdom of the wisest ; Sweet solaces of daily life, proofs and results of immortality; Trees yielding all fruits, whose leaves are for the healing of the nations; Groves of knowledge, where all may eat, nor fear a flaming sword; Gentle comrades, kind advisers; friends, comforts, treas ures, Helps, governments, diversities of tongues; who can weigh your worth? 449 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Reading. When, with gloomy fears oppressed, The trembling-hearted fain would rest, By its deep spell, the mind's alarms. 450 Mrs. Hale: Three Hours. First Hour. St. 8. Bright books! the perspectives to our weak sights, The clear projections of discerning lights, Burning and shining thoughts, man's posthume day, The dead alive and busy, the still voice Of enlarged spirits. 451 Henry Vaughan: To His Books. By sucking you, the wise, like bees. do grow Healing and rich though this they do most slow, Because most choicely; for as great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs, or more: And the great task to try, then know, the good To discern weeds and judge of wholesome food, Is a rare scant performance. 452 Henry Vaughan: To His Books Worthy books Are not companions - they are solitudes. Denham: Of Prudence 453 Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Village Feas Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. 454 "Twere well with most, if books, that could engage Their childhood, pleased them at a riper age; The man approving what had charmed the boy, Would die at last in comfort, peace, and joy; And not with curses on his art, who stole The gem of truth from his unguarded soul. 455 Cowper: Tirocinium. Line 147 Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food. 456 Crabbe: The Borough. Letter xxiv Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, 457 Wordsworth: Personal Talk. Some books are drenched sands, On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, 458 Alexander Smith: A Life Drama. Sc. 2. Cowley Of Myself The pleasant books, that silently among And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces. 460 Longfellow: Seaside and Fireside. Dedication. St. C Books are sepulchres of thought. 461 Longfellow: The Wind Over the Chimney. St. 8 A blessing on the printer's art! Books are the Mentors of the heart. The burning soul, the burdened mind, In books alone companions find. 462 BORES. Mrs. Hale: Three Hours. First Hour. St. 7 Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. 463 Churchill: Independence. Line 295 O, he's as tedious As is a tir'd horse, a railing wife; Worse than a smoky house; - I had rather live Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me, 464 Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1 Again I hear that creaking step! – Too well I know the boding sound I do not tremble when I meet The stoutest of my foes, But Heaven defend me from the friend Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 466 BOUNDS. Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. There's nothing situate under Heaven's eye, 467 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1. BOUNTY — see Benevolence. 'Tis pity, bounty had not eyes behind; That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind. 468 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2. Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him? for he partly begs To be desir'd to give. It much would please him 469 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 11. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, 470 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act v. Sc. 2 He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance, But never out of judgment. 471 Beaumont and Fletcher: Sp. Curate. Act i. Sc. 1. |