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BEARDS-BEAUTY.

BEARDS.

Ambiguous things that ape

Goats in their visage, women in their shape.

BYRON.-The Waltz.

What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy. chin than Dobbin my phill-horse has on his tail.

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SHAKSPERE.

Merchant of Venice, Act II.

Scene 2. (Gobbo to his Son.)

His beard was grizly? no.

2. It was, as I have seen it in his life,

A sable silver'd.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2
(Hamlet and Horatio.)

Such a beard as youth gone out

Had left in ashes.

TENNYSON.-Idylls of the King, Vivien.

So much a clown in gait, and laugh,
He wanted but a scrip and staff;
And such a beard as hung in candles
Down to Diogenes's sandals,

And planted all his chin thick,

Like him a dirty cynic.

CAWTHORNE.-Birth and Education of Genius.

A beard like an artichoke, with dry shrivelled jaws.

SHERIDAN.-The Duenna, Act III. Scene 7. And there he lies with a great beard, like a Russian bear upon a drift of snow.

CONGREVE.-The Double Dealer, Act III. Scene 5.

Sir, you have the most insinuating manner, but indeed you should get rid of that odious beard-one might as well kiss a hedgehog.

SHERIDAN.-The Duenna, Act II. Scene 2. BEASTS.-Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

SHAKSPERE.-As You Like It, Act V. Scene 4. (Jaques to Orlando.)

BEAUTY.-Ay, my continent of beauty.

SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV.
Scene 1. (Boyet to Rosaline.)

Beauty in distress shone like the sun

Piercing a summer's cloud.

COLMAN, JUN.-Battle of Hexham, Act I. Scene 3.

BEAUTY.

BEAUTY.-When beauty in distress appears,
An irresistless charm it bears:

In every breast does pity move,
Pity, the tenderest part of love.

YALDEN. TO Captain Chamberlain, Verse 3.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

POPE.-Rape of the Lock, Canto V. Line 33.

Nature in various moulds has beauty cast,
And form'd the feature for each different taste:
This sighs for golden locks and azure eyes;
That, for the gloss of sable tresses dies.

GAY.-Dione, Act III. Scene 1.

Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget
The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.

ADDISON. Cato, Act I.

"Tis not a set of features, nor complexion,
The tincture of a skin that I admire ;
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
ADDISON.-Cato, Act I. Scene 1.

"Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all.
POPE.-On Criticism, Line 245.

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle;
Beauty like wit, to judges should be shewn ;
Both most are valued, where they best are known.

LYTTLETON.-Soliloquy of a Beauty, Line 11.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,

And beauty draws us with a single hair.

POPE.-Rape of the Lock, Canto II. Line 28.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.

KEATS.-Endymion, Line 1.

Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night,

As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.

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SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 5, (Romeo to the Servant.)

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BEAUTY.-Let him alone;

There's nothing that allays an angry mind

So soon as a sweet beauty.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Elder Brother.

The beauty, that of late was in her flow'r, is now a ruin,
QUARLES.-Book I. No, IX. Verse 5.

BED.-Who goes to bed, and doth not pray,

Maketh two nights to every day.

GEORGE HERBERT.-The Temple; Charms and
Knots.

Moss bestrowed

Must be their bed; their pillow was unsewed.

SPENSER.-The Fairy Queen, Book VI. Chap. IV.
Stanza 14.

BEE.-Where the bee sucks, there suck I.

SHAKSPERE-Tempest, Act V. Scene I.
(A Song.)

BEES. So work the honey bees;

Creatures that, by a rule in nature, teach

The act of order to a peopled kingdom,

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry V. Act I. Scene 2. (Canterbury.)

He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the carcase.

JUDGES.-Chap. XIV. Verse 8; and see DAVID-
SON'S Virgil, by Buckley, Georgie IV.

"Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb in the dead carrion.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act IV.
SCENE 4. (The King to Warwick.)

BEGGAR.-A beggar begs that never begged before.

SHAKSPERE. King Richard II. Act V. Scene 3. (The Duchess to Bolingbroke.)

Moody beggars, starving for a time

Of pell-mell havock and confusion.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act V.
Scene 1. (The King to Warwick.)

For her own person,

It beggar'd all description.

SHAKSPERE-Anthony and Cleopatra, Act II,
Scene 2. (Enobarbus to Agrippa.)

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BEGINNING.-He has half the deed done, who has made a

beginning.

HORACE.-By Smart, Book I. Epistle 2.

The mind must be excited to make a beginning.

SENECA.

The true beginning of our end.

SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer Night's Dream, Act
V. Scene I. (Enter Prologue.)

The beginning of the end.

TALLEYRAND.

BELIEF. This would not be believ'd in Venice, though I should swear I saw 't.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act IV. Scene I.
(Lodovico to Othello.)

I'll believe both;

And what does else want credit, come to me,
And I'll be sworn 'tis true.

SHAKSPERE.-Tempest, Act III. Scene 3.
(Sebastian to Alonso.)

BELL.-Silence that dreadful bell,

It frights the isle from her propriety.

SHAKSPERE. Othello, Act II. Scene 3.

(The Moor, after the affray between Cassio and Montano.)

That all-softening, overpowering knell,

The tocsin of the soul-the dinner bell.

BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto V. Stanza 49.

BELLS-There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;-
How soft the music of those village bells,

Falling at intervals upon the ear

In cadence sweet, now dying all away.

COWPER.-The Task, Book VI. Line 1.

Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells,
Of youth, and home, and that sweet time,
When last I heard their soothing chime!

TOM MOORE.-Vol. IV. Page 157.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1.

(Ophelia, after her interview with Hamlet, and his pretended madness.)

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BEND.-Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,
With 'bated breath, and whispering humbleness,

Say this?—

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3.
(Shylock to Antonio.)

BENEVOLENCE.—The lessons of prudence have charms,
And slighted may lead to distress;
But the man whom benevolence warms

Is an angel who lives but to bless.

BLOOMFIELD.-The Banks of the Wye.

BENT.-They fool me to the top of my bent.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (The
Prince to Polonius.)

BETTER.-A better man than his father.

SMART'S HORACE.-Book I. Ode 15.

The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act V. Scene 4. (Falstaff, after he had fallen down as if dead.)

Poor Jack, farewell!

I could have better spar'd a better man.

SHAKSPERE-King Henry IV. Part I. Act V.
Scene 4. (Prince Henry, who supposed him
dead.)

BIBLE.-The sacred volume claimed their hearts alone,
Which taught the way to glory and to God.

ANONYMOUS.-Collet's Rel. of Lit. 20.

Whence, but from Heaven, could men unskill'd in arts,
In several ages born, in several parts,

Weave such agreeing truths? or how, or why

Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie?

DRYDEN.-Religio Laici, Line 140.

Then for the style, majestic and divine,

It speaks no less than God in every line:
Commanding words; whose force is still the same
As the first fiat that produced our frame.

DRYDEN.-Ibid. Line 152.

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

HERVEY.-Descant upon Creation.

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