Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? 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, Sound him with gold; Peler Pindar. "T will sink into his venal soul like lead Who thinketh to buy villany with gold, BRITAIN-see England. Byron. Marston Sophonisba. Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, 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. BROTHERHOOD. 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, Here the architect Did not with curious skill a pile erect 61 Burns, Caledonia. No sumptuous chimney-piece of shining stone And coldly entertain his sight, but clear And cheerful flames cherish and warm him here. The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, BURKE (Edmund). Carew. Young, Love of F. s. 1. 171. Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 29. Oft have I wonder'd that on Irish ground She saved her venom to create a Burke. Warren Hastings.* To business that we love, we rise betimes, Sh. Ant. Cleop. IV. 4. Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where But yet, madam, I do not like but yet. It does allay The good precedent; fie upon but yet! BUTT. Herbert. Sh. Ant. Cleop. 11. 5. To take in stores of strong fermenting juice. Crabbe. Big as a butt, and for the self-same use, * An epigram produced by him when writhing under the agony of a pro racted prosecution. (Encyc. Brit. vol. xi. p. 164, 7th edition. 62 CALAMITY. CALAMITY-CALUMNY. Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, 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, Pure was the temp'rate air, an even calm So calm, the waters scarcely seem to stray, O who with speech of war and woes, Dryden. Thomson, Spring. Byron, Lara. Of such enchanting scene! Scott, Lord of the Isles, IV 13. How calm, how beautiful comes on 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. III. 2. CALUMNY-continued. CALUMNY-CARE. If I'm traduced by tongues, which neither know The chronicles of my doing-let me say, 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, Calumny will sear 63 Sh. Hen. VIII. 1. 2. Sh. Ham. III. 1. Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's. CANDOUR. I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful, where a noble heart Sh. Win. T. II. 1. Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love. Sh. H. VI. 3. IV. 2. Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; Otway. Pope, E. C. It shows our spirit, or it proves our strength. Young, N. T. Make my breast Transparent as pure crystal, that the world, Jealous of me, may see the foulest thought The brave do never shun the light; Buckingham. Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers. CANT-see Duplicity. Rowe, Fair Penitent. Yes, rather plunge me back in pagan night, A fox, full fraught with seeming sanctity, Moore, Intol. 68. That fear'd an oath; but, like the devil, would lie, 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. Sh. Hen. VI. 1, III. 3 Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive, Sh. Rich. II. II. 2. In care they live, and must for many care; 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. 0.xv. 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; Burns. Nor does old age a wrinkle trace, More deeply than despair. Care, that in cloisters only seals her eyes, Sir W. Scott. Which youth thinks folly, age as wisdom owns : Fools, by not knowing her, outlive the wise: She visits cities, but she dwells on thrones. Davenant, Gond. CAREFULNESS. For my means, I'll husband them so well, Sh. Ham. IV. 5. |