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nor solitary thorn.?131?HOOD: Autumn.
=Avarice.=
The lust of gold succeeds the rags of conquest:?The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless!?The last corruption of degenerate man.?132?DR. JOHNSON: Irene, Act i., Sc. 1.
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice,?I think I must take up with avarice.?133?BYRON: Don Juan, Canto i., St. 216.
That disease?Of which all old men sicken,--avarice.?134?MIDDLETON: Roaring Girl, Act i., Sc. 1.
=Awkwardness.=
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill?Of moving gracefully, or standing still,?One leg, as if suspicious of his brother,?Desirous seems to run away from t'other.?135?CHURCHILL: Rosciad, Line 438.
==B.==
=Balances.=
Jove lifts the golden balances that show?The fates of mortal men, and things below.?136?POPE: Iliad, Bk. xxii., Line 271.
=Ball.=
I saw her at a county ball;?There when the sound of flute and fiddle?Gave signal sweet in that old hall,?Of hands across and down the middle.?137?PRAED: Belle of the Ball-Room, St. 2.
=Banishment.=
Eating the bitter bread of banishment.?138?SHAKS.: Richard II., Act iii., Sc. 1.
Banished??O friar, the damned use that word in hell;?Howlings attend it: How hast thou the heart,?Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,?A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,?To mangle me with that word--banished??139?SHAKS.: Rom. and Jul., Act iii., Sc. 3
=Banner.=
Hang out our banners on the outward walls.?140?SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 5.
A banner with the strange device.?141?LONGFELLOW: Excelsior.
Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,?And charge with all thy chivalry.?142?CAMPBELL: Hohenlinden.
=Bard.=
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.?143?COLERIDGE: Fancy in Nubibus.
=Bars.=
Stone walls do not a prison make,?Nor iron bars a cage.?144?LOVELACE: To Althea from Prison, iv.
=Baseness.=
Since Cleopatra died,?I have lived in such dishonor that the gods?Detest my baseness.?145?SHAKS.: Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 14.
=Bashfulness.=
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain?Of fancied scorn, and undeserv'd disdain,?And bear the marks upon a blushing face,?Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.?146?COWPER: Conversation, Line 347.
=Battle.=
Then more fierce?The conflict grew; the din of arms, the yell?Of savage rage, the shriek of agony,?The groan of death, commingled in one sound?Of undistinguish'd horrors.?147?SOUTHEY: Madoc,_ Pt. ii., _The Battle.
For freedom's battle, once begun,?Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,?Though baffled oft, is ever won.?148?BYRON: Giaour, Line 123.
When the battle rages loud and long,?And the stormy winds do blow.?149?CAMPBELL: Ye Mariners of England.
=Beads.=
The hooded clouds, like friars,?Tell their beads in drops of rain.?150?LONGFELLOW: Midnight Mass.
=Beams.=
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,?Thro' all the circle of the golden year.?151?TENNYSON: The Golden Year.
=Beard.=
His beard was as white as snow,?All flaxen was his poll.?152?SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5.
His tawny beard was th' equal grace?Both of his wisdom and his face;?In cut and die so like a tile,?A sudden view it would beguile;?The upper part thereof was whey;?The nether, orange mix'd with grey.?153?BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 241.
=Beast.=
A beast, that wants discourse of reason.?154?SHAKS.; Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2.
=Beauty.=
My beauty, though but mean,?Needs not the painted flourish of your praise;?Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye,?Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.?155?SHAKS.: Love's L. Lost, Act ii., Sc. 1.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;?A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;?A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud;?A brittle glass that's broken presently;?A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,?Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.?156?SHAKS.: Pass. Pilgrim, St. 11
Beauty stands?In the admiration only of weak minds?Led captive; cease to admire, and all her plumes?Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,?At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.?157?MILTON: Par. Regained, Bk. ii., Line 220.
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,?The power of beauty I remember yet.?158?DRYDEN: Cym. and Iph., Line 1.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:?Its loveliness increases; it will never?Pass into nothingness; but still will keep?A bower quiet for us, and a sleep?Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.?159?KEATS: Endymion, Bk. i., Line 1.
What is this thought or thing?Which I call beauty? is it thought or thing??Is it a thought accepted for a thing??Or both? or neither--a pretext?--a word??160?MRS. BROWNING: Drama of Ex. Extrem. of Sword-Glare.
If eyes were made for seeing,?Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.?161?EMERSON: The Rhodora.
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare,?And beauty draws us with a single hair.?162?POPE: R. of the Lock, Canto ii., Line 27.
True beauty dwells in deep retreats,?Whose veil is unremoved?Till heart with heart in concord beats,?And the lover is beloved.?163?WORDSWORTH: To ----. Let Other Bards of Angels Sing.
=Bed.=
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry,?And born in bed, in bed we die;?The near approach a bed may show?Of human bliss and human woe.?164?ISAAC DE BENSERADE: Trans. by Dr. Johnson.
=Bees.=
So work the honey-bees;?Creatures, that by a rule in nature, teach?The act of order to a peopled kingdom.?165?SHAKS.: Henry V., Act i., Sc. 2.
The moan of doves in immemorial elms,?And murmuring of innumerable bees.?166?TENNYSON: The Princess, Pt. vii., Line 203.
=Beggars.=
Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death.?167?SHAKS.: 3 Henry VI., Act i., Sc.