BOYHOOD -see Children. The whining school-boy, with his satchel, 472 Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii Sc. 7 Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable; Shaks.: Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1 473 Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy? 474 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 23. A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. 475 BRAGGART Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 25. see Boasting. Who art thou? Have not I An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not 476 Shaks.: Cymbeline. Act iv. Sc. 2. Shaks.: All's Well. Act iv. Sc. 3. Who knows himself a braggart, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple: 479 Shaks.: Much Ado. Act v. Sc. 1. Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. 480 BRAINS. Shaks.: Mer. W. of W. Act ii. Sc 2 The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. 481 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4 With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. 482 Churchill: Epis. to Hogarth BRAVERY - see Courage, Daring. 'Tis more brave To live, than to die. 483 Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 11 A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. 484 Alexander Smith: A Life Drama. Sc. 4 Dryden: Alex. Feast. St. 1 None but the brave deserves the fair. By fairy hands their knell is sung, 486 Collins Lines in 1746. His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, 487 Byron: Giaour. Line 675. When they behold the brave oppress'd with odds, Byron: Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 106 488 Fate made me what I am- may make me nothing, But either that or nothing must I be; I will not live degraded. 489 BREEZES. Byron: Sardanapalus. Acti. Sc. 2. A breeze came wandering from the sky, He put the o'erhanging grasses by, And softly stooped to kiss the stream, The pretty stream, the flattered stream, The shy, yet unreluctant stream. 490 William Cullen Bryant: The Wind and Stream -ye have played Who toss the golden and the flame-like flowers, A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? 491 William Cullen Bryant: The Prairies Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea! 492 William Cullen Bryant: Evening Wind SHEVITY. Since brevity is the soul of wit, Shaks.: Hamlet. Act ii Sc. 2 And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes 493 For brevity is very good, When we are, or are not, understood. 494 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 669 Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet While you are emptying your colloquial pack, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back. 495 Oliver Wendell Holmes: Rhymed Lesson. Line 441 BRIBES. What! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, 496 Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3 Dead falls the cause, if once the hand be mute; 497 498 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 187. But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor 499 feels. Tennyson: Locksley Hall. St. 53. Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, 500 Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 1 Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still. 501 Be Britain still to Britain true, For never but by British hands Churchill: Farewell Burns: Dumfries Volunteers 502 Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. 503 Oh! when shall Britain, conscicus of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame; Cowper: To Sir J. Reynolds In living Medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquish'd realms supply recording gold? 504 BROOKS. Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. v. Line 53. A silvery brook comes stealing From the shadow of its trees, Where slender herbs of the forest stoop Before the entering breeze. 505 BROOM. William Cullen Bryant: The Unknown Way. Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, 506 BUILDING. Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended. Burns: Song. 507 Colley Cibber: Double Gallant. Prol The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. 508 BURKE (Edmund). Young: Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 163. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, Goldsmith: Retaliation. Line 2. see Industry. BUSY BUSINESS · 510 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 57 To business that we love, we rise betimes, 511 BUTTERCUPS. Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act iv. Sc. 4 All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower. 512 BUT YET. Robert Browning: Home-Thoughts, From Abroad But yet, madam, I do not like "but yet." It does allay The good precedence; fie upon ..but yet!" Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 5 Pure was the temp'rate air, an even calm 515 Thomson: Seasons. Spring. Line 323 So calm, the waters scarcely seem to stray, 516 Byron: Lara. Canto i. St. 10 The wind breathed soft as lovers sigh, 517 Scott: Lord of the Isles. Canto iv. St. 13 How calm, how beautiful comes on 518 Moore: Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers |