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BRIBES-continued.

BRIBES-BROTHERHOOD.

Contaminate our fingers with base bribes P
And sell the mighty space of our large honour
For so much trash as may be grasped thus ?
I'd rather be a dog, and bay the moon,

Than such a Roman.

Sh. Jul. C. IV. 3.

Dead falls the cause, if once the hand be mute;
But let that speak, the client gets the suit. Herrick, Aph. 275.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold. Pope, Essay on Man.
To bribe the mob with brandy, beer, and song,
To put their greasy fists to court addresses,
Full of professions kind, and sweet caresses,
And with a fiddle lead the hogs along.

Peler Pindar.

Sound him with gold;
'T will sink into his venal soul like lead
Into the deep, and bring up slime, and mud,
And ooze, too, from the bottom, as the lead doth

With its greased understratum.

Who thinketh to buy villany with gold,

Byron.

Marston Sophonisba.

Shall ever find such faith so bought-so sold.

BRITAIN-see England.

Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
Which he hath given for fence impregnable,

And with their helps only defend ourselves;

In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies. Sh. H. VI. P. 3, IV. I.

Be England what she will,

With all her faults she is my country still. Churchill, Farew.

Be Britain still to Britain true,

Amang oursels united;

For never but by British hands

Maun British wrangs be righted. Burns, Dumfries Volunteers.

Without one friend, above all foes,

Britannia gives the world repose. Cowper, to Sir J. Reynolds.
The sword we dread not: of ourselves secure,
Firm were our strength, our peace and freedom sure.
Let all the world confederate all its powers,
"Be they not back'd by those that should be ours,"
High on his rock shall Britain's Genius stand,

Scatter the crowded hosts, and vindicate the land.

BROTHERHOOD.

Canning, The New Morality.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. Sh. Hen. V. IV. 2.

BROOM.

BROOM-BUTT.

Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon,
Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume;
Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan,

Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom.

Did not with curious skill a pile erect

Of carved marble, touch, or porphyry,

But built a house for hospitality;

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Burns, Caledonia.

ney-piece of shining stone

No sumptuous chimney-piece of

Invites the stranger's eye to gaze upon,
And coldly entertain his sight, but clear

And cheerful flames cherish and warm him here.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,

Provides a home from which to run away.

BURKE (Edmund).

Carew.

Young, Love of F. s. 1. 171.

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
We scarcely can praise it, or blame it, too much;
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,

And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 29.

Oft have I wonder'd that on Irish ground

No poisonous reptiles ever yet were found:

Reveal'd the secret stands of Nature's work;

She saved her venom to create a Burke. Warren Hastings.*

BUSY-BUSINESS-see Industry.

To business that we love, we rise betimes,
And go to it with delight.

Sh. Ant. Cleop. IV. 4.

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where
And when, and how thy business may be done,
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on.

Herbert.

Sh. Ant. Cleop. II. 5.

To take in stores of strong fermenting juice.

Crabbe.

* An epigram produced by him when writhing under the agony of a proracted prosecution. (Eneyc. Brit. vol. xi. p. 164, 7th edition.)

Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,

And thou art wedded to calamity.

Do not insult calamity;

It is a barb'rous grossness, to lay on

The weight of scorn, where heavy misery

Sh. Rom. III. 3.

Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. Daniel, Phil.

Know, he that

Foretells his own calamity, and makes

Events before they come, twice over doth

Endure the pains of evil destiny. Sir W. Davenant, Distresses.

How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind

Calamity! which is the perfect glass

Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. Ib. Law agt. Lovers.

CALM.

The tempest is o'erblown, the skies are clear,
And the sea charm'd into a calm so still,
That not a wrinkle ruffles her smooth face.
Pure was the temp'rate air, an even calm
Perpetual reign'd, save what the zephyrs bland
Breath'd o'er the blue expanse.

So calm, the waters scarcely seem to stray,
And yet they glide like happiness away.
The wind breathed soft as lovers sigh,
And oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die,

With breathless pause between,
O who with speech of war and woes,
Would wish to break the soft repose

Dryden.

Thomson, Spring.

Byron, Lara.

Of such enchanting scene! Scott, Lord of the Isles, IV. 13.

How calm, how beautiful comes on

The stilly hour, when storms are gone;
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity!
The sea is like a silvery lake,
And, o'er its calm the vessel glides
Gently, as if it fear'd to wake
The slumbers of the silent tides!

CALUMNY.

No might nor greatness in mortality

Moore, Lalla Rookh.

Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny

The whitest virtue strikes: what king so strong,

Moore.

Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? Sh. M. M. 11. 2.

CALUMNY-CARE.

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CALUMNY-continued.

If I'm traduced by tongues, which neither know

My faculties nor person, yet will be

The chronicles of my doing-let me say,

That virtue must go through.

Sh. Hen. VIII. 1. 2.

Sh. Ham. 111. 1.

Calumny will sear

'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,

Thou shalt not escape calumny.

Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's.

CANDOUR.

I hold it cowardice

To rest mistrustful, where a noble heart

Sh. Win. Т. 11. 1.

Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love. Sh. H. vi. 3, 1v. 2.

Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves,
Or fools that use them, when they want good sense;

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament.

Some positive, persisting fools we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.
'Tis great, 'tis manly, to disdain disguise;
It shows our spirit, or it proves our strength.

Make my breast

Otway.

Pope, E. C.

Young, N. T.

Buckingham.

The brave do never shun the light;

Rowe, Fair Penitent.

Transparent as pure crystal, that the world,
Jealous of me, may see the foulest thought
My heart does hold.

Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers.

CANT-see Duplicity.

Yes, rather plunge me back in pagan night,

And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,
Than be the Christian of a faith like this,

Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway,

And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.

A fox, full fraught with seeming sanctity,

Moore, Intol. 68.

That fear'd an oath; but, like the devil, would lie,

Who look'd like Lent, and had the holy leer,

And durst not sin before he said his prayer.

CARE.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,

Dryden.

And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. Sh. Rom. Jul. 11. 3.

Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive,

For things that are not to be remedied. Sh. Hen. VI. 1, 111. 3
Comfort 's in heaven; and we are on the earth,
Where nothing lives but crosses, care, and grief.

Sh. Rich. II. II. 2.

In care they live, and must for many care;
And such the best and greatest ever are. Lord Brooke, Alaham.
Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow eyes,

And builds himself caves to abide in them. Beaum. and Fl.

Care that is enter'd once into the breast,

Will have the whole possession, ere it rest. B. Jonson, T. of Tub.

All creatures else a time of love possess,
Man only clogs with care his happiness,

And while he should enjoy his part of bliss,

With thoughts of what may be, destroys what is. Dryden.

Man is a child of sorrow, and this world,

In which we breathe, has cares enough to plague us;

But it hath means withal to soothe these cares;

And he who meditates on others' woe

Shall in that meditation lose his own.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;

Cumberland.

And every grin, so merry, draws one out. P.Pindar, Ex. O.xv.

Human bodies are sic fools,

For a' their colleges and schools,

That when nae real ills perplex them,
They mak enow themsels to vex them.

Danger, long travel, want, or woe,
Soon change the form that best we know;

For deadly fear can time outgo,

And blanch at once the hair.

Hard toil can roughen form and face,

And want can quench the eye's bright grace;

Nor does old age a wrinkle trace,

More deeply than despair.

Care, that in cloisters only seals her eyes,
Which youth thinks folly, age as wisdom owns:

Fools, by not knowing her, outlive the wise:

Burns.

Sir W. Scott.

She visits cities, but she dwells on thrones. Davenant, Gond.

CAREFULNESS.

For my means, I'll husband them so well,
They shall go far with little.

Sh. Ham. IV. 5.