BRAVERY-COURAGE - FORTITUDE. What heart in either grim array Throbs to the charge with wilder beat? What ear so loves the trumpet's bray, That bids contending thousands meet? MRS. HOLFORD. Fate made me what I am-may make me nothing,- I will not live degraded. BYRON'S Sardanapalus. His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, BYRON'S Giaour As bold as Daniel in the lions' den. BYRON'S Don Juan. -The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppress'd with odds, Are touch'd with a desire to shield or save. BYRON'S Don Juan. It must have been A fearful pang that wrung a groan from him. BYRON'S Two Foscari. And the repress'd convulsion of the high BYRON'S Two Foscari -And the poor wretch mov'd me More by his silence, than a thousand outcries Could have effected. BYRON'S Two Foscar. His blade is bared; in him there is an air BYRON'S Lara, 99 100 BREVITY-BRIBERY. Commanding, aiding, animating all, Where foe appear'd to press, or friend to fall, And tho' I hope not hence unscath❜d to go, BYRON'S Lara BYRON'S English Bards, &c. There is a tear for all who die, But each strikes singly, silently, and home, BYRON. BYRON'S Corsair. They fought like brave men, long and well. FITZGREEN HALLECK. Yet, it may be, more lofty courage dwells Than his, whose ardent soul indignant swells, Warm'd by the fight, or cheer'd through high debate. MRS. NORTON's Dream. BREVITY. (See CONVERSATION.) BRIBERY.-(See AVARICE.) BRUTE-BUILDING - CALUMNY, &c. 101 BRUTE. (See ANIMAL.) BUILDING.-(See ARCHITECTURE.) CALUMNY - DETRACTION ENVY-SLANDER, &o. No wound which warlike hand of enemy SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. Who steals my purse, steals trash; 't is something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thousands : But he, who filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, SHAKSPEARE. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, Thou shalt not escape calumny. SHAKSPEARE. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect; For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; So thou be good, slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater. SHAKSPEARE. Who stabs my name, would stab my person too, CROWN. For envy doth invade Works breathing to eternity, and cast 9* ALEYN 102 CALUMNY - DETRACTION - ENVY - SLANDER, &c. So a wild Tartar, when he spies A man that's valiant, handsome, wise, BUTLER'S Hudibras. Envy's a sharper spur than pay, Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise, Who praises Lesbia's eyes and features, GAY's Fables. GAY's Fables. GAY's Fables. GAY'S Fables. Slander'd in vain, enjoy the spleen of foes; Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; AARON HILL. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. THOMSON'S Seasons. CALUMNY - DETRACTION - ENVY-SLANDER, &c. With that malignant envy, which grows pale 103 CHURCHILL. For every thing contains within itself But Envy, of all evil things the worst, Saps and consumes the heart in which it works. CUMBERLAND's Menander. Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, Curse the tongue BYRON'S Don Juan Whence slanderous rumour, like the adder's drop, The ignoble mind Loves ever to assail with secret blow As a base pack of yelping hounds, Will bruise and mangle and destroy; HILLHOUSE. W. G. SIMMS. J. T. WATSON, |