BIBLE-BLESSED. BIBLE.-Carries her Bible tuck'd beneath his arm, BIBO.-When Bibo thought fit from the world to retreat. 25 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, POPE.-2nd Epistle to Book II. of Horace, 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, 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, BYRON.-Childe Harold, Canto I. Stanza 3. BLEMISH.-In nature there's no blemish but the mind; SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 4. 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, 26 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. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Knight of the BLEST.-Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, And learn the luxury of doing good. GOLDSMITH.-The Traveller, Line 13. BLISS-We loathe what none are left to share: 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. Make thick any blood. SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 5. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 215. What bloody man is that? SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 2. As fall the dews on quenchless sands, BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto IX. Stanza 59. BLOOD.-By the blood of the scratches. REYNOLDS.-The Dramatist, Act III. Scene 1. BLOOM.-O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move, 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, GARTH.-The Dispensary, Canto I. Line 138, BLOT-Poets lose half the praise they should have got, WALLER.-On Roscommon's Translation, De Arte 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, 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, BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto I. Stanza 212. And when my face is fair, you shall perceive SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act I. Scene 9. The rising blushes, which her cheek o'erspread, GAY.-Dione, Act II. Scene 3. The man that blushes, is not quite a brute. 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 As purest pearls, or pebbles do, When peeping through a brook. HERRICK.-The Hesperides; To Julia, No. 70, 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, GOLDSMITH.-The Traveller, Line 73. 'Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine CHURCHILL.-The Farewell, Line 47. Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. BOLD.-A bold bad man! SPENCER.-The Fairy Queen, Book I. Chap. I, BOND-BOOKS. BOND.-I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak; SHAKSPERE. 29 Merchant of Venice, Act III. All bond and privilege of nature break. SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act V. Scene 3. BONDSMEN.-Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not BONFIRES.-1. The news, Rogero? 2. Nothing but bonfires. SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act V. Scene 2. BOOK.-"Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; Not twice a twelvemonth, you appear in print, 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- Come, my best friends, my books! and lead me on. Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. SHAKSPERE. 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, DR. DODD.-Thoughts in Prison, Third Week. |