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BIBLE-BLESSED.

BIBLE.-Carries her Bible tuck'd beneath his arm,
And hides his hands to keep his fingers warm.
COWPER.-Truth, Line 147.

BIBO.-When Bibo thought fit from the world to retreat.
PRIOR.-Bibo and Charon.

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BIRD.-A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

ECCLESIASTES.-Chap. X. Verse 20.

BIRTH-DAY.-Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birth-day with a grateful mind.

POPE.-2nd Epistle to Book II. of Horace,
Line 314.

Is that a birth-day? 'tis alas! too clear,

"Tis but the funeral of the former year.

POPE. TO Mrs. M. B., on her birth-day.

BLACKGUARD.-That each pull'd different ways with many

an oath,

"Arcades ambo,” id est—blackguards both.

BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto IV. Stanza 93.

BLAST.-His rage, not his love, in that frenzy is shown,
And the blast that blows loudest is soon overblown.

SMOLLETT.-Song, Verse 1.

Sideral blast,

Vapour, and mist, and exhalation hot,

Corrupt and pestilent.

MILTON.-Par. Lost, Book X.

BLAZON.-Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

BYRON.-Childe Harold, Canto I. Stanza 3.

BLEMISH.-In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be called deform'd but the unkind.

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 4.
(Antonio musing.)

BLESSED.-Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must

mourn;

And he alone is blessed, who ne'er was born.

PRIOR.-Solomon on the Vanity of the World,
Book III. Line 240.

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BLESSINGS-BLOOD,

BLESSINGS.-With hearts resolved, and hands prepared, The blessings they enjoy to guard.

SMOLLETT.-Leven Water, Last lines,

Give thee my blessing? No, I'll ne'er

Give thee my blessing; I'll see thee hang'd first.
It shall ne'er be said I gave thee my blessing.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Knight of the
Pestle, Act I. Scene 4.

BLEST.-Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,
And every stranger finds a ready chair;

Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
Where all the ruddy family around

Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail,
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale:
Or press the bashful stranger to his food,

And learn the luxury of doing good.

GOLDSMITH.-The Traveller, Line 13.

BLISS-We loathe what none are left to share:
Even bliss-'twere woe alone to bear.
BYRON-The Giaour.

BLOCKHEAD.-Why, you metaphorical blockhead, why could you not say so at first?

MURPHY.-The Apprentice, Act I.

BLOOD.-Thoughts that would thick my blood.

SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act I. Scene 2.
(Polixenes to Leontes.)

Make thick any blood.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 5.
(Lady Macbeth.)

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 215.

What bloody man is that?

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 2.
(Duncan meeting a bleeding soldier.)

As fall the dews on quenchless sands,
Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto IX. Stanza 59.

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BLOOD.-By the blood of the scratches.

REYNOLDS.-The Dramatist, Act III. Scene 1.

BLOOM.-O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move,
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
GRAY.-Progress of Poesy, Stanza 3.

Her bloom was like the springing flower,

That sips the silver dew;

The rose was budded in her cheek,

Just opening to the view.

MALLET.-Margaret's Ghost, 3 Percy Rel. page 393.

BLOSSOM.-But, undisturb'd, they loiter life away,
So wither green, and blossom in decay.

GARTH.-The Dispensary, Canto I. Line 138,

BLOT-Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

WALLER.-On Roscommon's Translation, De Arte
Poetica.

Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,

The last and greatest art, the art to blot.

POPE.-To Augustus, Epistle I. Line 280.

Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,

One line, which dying he could wish to blot.

LYTTLETON.-Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus,
Line 23.

No song

Of mine, from youth to age, has left a stain

I would blot out.

BOWLES.-Banwell Hill, Part V. Line 218.

It is a consolation that from youth to age, I have found no line I wished to blot, or departed a moment from the severer taste which I imbibed from the simplest and purest models of classical composition.

BOWLES.-Advertisement to St. John in Patmos.

In morals blameless, as in manners meek,

He knew no wish that he might blush to speak.

COWPER. To the Memory of Dr. Lloyd, Line 11,

BLOW-I was most ready to return a blow,
And would not brook at all this sort of thing,
In my hot youth, when George the Third was king.

BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto I. Stanza 212.

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And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
Whether I blush or no.

SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act I. Scene 9.
(To his Generals.)

The rising blushes, which her cheek o'erspread,
Are opening roses in the lily's bed.

GAY.-Dione, Act II. Scene 3.

The man that blushes, is not quite a brute.
YOUNG.-Night VII. Line 496.

The blood within her crystal cheekes

Did such a colour drive,

As though the lillye and the rose

For mastership did strive.

ANONYMOUS.-Fair Rosamond, 2 Percy Rel. 156.

If blush thou must, then blush thou through
A lawn; that thou may'st look

As purest pearls, or pebbles do,

When peeping through a brook.

HERRICK.-The Hesperides; To Julia, No. 70,
Amatory Odes.

BLUSHED.-We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.

COWLEY. A Discourse by way of Vision, concerning Cromwell; the last line of the seventh verse of the rapture beginning "Curst be the man."

BOAST.-Such is the Patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country, ever is at home.

GOLDSMITH.-The Traveller, Line 73.

'Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine
On vain refinements vainly to refine,
To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign,
To boast of apathy when out of pain.

CHURCHILL.-The Farewell, Line 47.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
YOUNG.-Night VIII. Line 509.

BOLD.-A bold bad man!

SPENCER.-The Fairy Queen, Book I. Chap. I,
Stanza 37.

BOND-BOOKS.

BOND.-I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak;
I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more.

SHAKSPERE.
Scene 3.

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Merchant of Venice, Act III.

All bond and privilege of nature break.

SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act V. Scene 3.
(The General to Virginia and others.)

BONDSMEN.-Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?
BYRON.-Childe Harold, Canto II. Stanza 76.

BONFIRES.-1. The news, Rogero?

2. Nothing but bonfires.

SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act V. Scene 2.
(One Gentleman to another.)

BOOK.-"Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
BYRON.-English Bards, Line 51.

Not twice a twelvemonth, you appear in print,
And when it comes, the court see nothing in 't.

POPE.-Epilo. to Sat. Dialogue I. Line 1.

She's a book

To be with care perus'd.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Lover's Progress, Act V. Scene 3.

BOOKS-Here, in the country, my books are my sole occupa-
tion; books my sure solace, and refuge from frivolous cares.
Books, the calmers, as well as the instruction of the mind.
MRS. INCHBALD.-To Marry or not to Marry,
Act II. Scene 2.

Come, my best friends, my books! and lead me on.
COWLEY.-The Motto, Line 25.

Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.

SHAKSPERE.
Scene 2.

Love's Labour Lost, Act IV. '

Books, dear books,

Have been, and are, my comforts; morn and night,

Adversity, prosperity, at home,

Abroad, health, sickness-good or ill report,

The same firm friends; the same refreshment rich,
And source of consolation.

DR. DODD.-Thoughts in Prison, Third Week.

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