Chapter BAG AND BAGGAGE to BASE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

What a bankrupt am I made
Of a full stock of blessings!

Ford.—Perkin Warbeck, Act III. Scene 2.

BAR.—Sweat, and wrangle at the bar.

Ben Jonson.—The Forest, to Sir Robert Worth.

A group of wranglers from the bar,
Suspending here their mimic war.

Bloomfield.—Banks of the Wye, Book I.

BARK.—Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name
Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame,
Say, shall my little bark attendant sail,
Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 383.

BARREN.—I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ’Tis all barren.

Sterne. — A street in Calais — Sentimental Journey.

BASE.—Lewd fellows of the baser sort.

Acts, Chapter XVII. Verse 5.

I saw them murd’ring in cold blood,
Not the gentlemen, but wild and rude—
The baser sort

Scott.—Waverley, Preface to Third Edition.

A base perjury man.

Colman, Jun.—Heir-at-Law, Act IV. Scene 1.

1. And how does noble Chamont?
2. Never ill, man, until I hear of baseness,
Then I sicken.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—Nice Valour, Act I. Scene 1.

BASE.—To what base uses we may return, Horatio!

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (Hamlet to him.)