20 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. 1. SHAKSPERE. Merchant of Venice, Act II. 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 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, 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. Beauty in distress shone like the sun Piercing a summer's cloud. COLMAN, JUN.-Battle of Hexham, Act I. Scene 3. BEAUTY.-When beauty in distress appears, In every breast does pity move, YALDEN. TO Captain Chamberlain, Verse 3. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; POPE.-Rape of the Lock, Canto V. Line 33. Nature in various moulds has beauty cast, GAY.-Dione, Act III. Scene 1. Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget ADDISON. Cato, Act I. 'Tis not a set of features, nor complexion, "Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; 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: KEATS.-Endymion, Line 1. Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 5, (Romeo to the Servant.) 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, BED.-Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day. GEORGE HERBERT.-The Temple; Charms and Moss bestrowed Must be their bed; their pillow was unsewed. SPENSER.-The Fairy Queen, Book VI. Chap. IV. BEE.-Where the bee sucks, there suck I. SHAKSPERE.-Tempest, Act V. Scene I. 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- "Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb in the dead carrion. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act IV. 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. For her own person, It beggar'd all description. SHAKSPERE-Anthony and Cleopatra, Act II, 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 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. I'll believe both; And what does else want credit, come to me, SHAKSPERE.-Tempest, Act III. Scene 3. 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 ;- 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! TOM MOORE.-Vol. IV. Page 157. Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (Ophelia, after her interview with Hamlet, and his pretended madness.) BEND.-Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, Say this?— SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3. BENEVOLENCE.-The lessons of prudence have charms, 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 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. BIBLE.-The sacred volume claimed their hearts alone, ANONYMOUS.-Collet's Rel. of Lit. 20. Whence, but from Heaven, could men unskill'd in arts, 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 DRYDEN.-Ibid. Line 152. Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain. HERVEY.-Descant upon Creation. |