Chapter BLOOM to BOLD of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

BLOOM to BOLD

BLOOM.—O’er her warm cheek and rising bosom move,
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.

Gray.—Progress of Poesy, Stanza 3.

Her bloom was like the springing flower,
That sips the silver dew;
The rose was budded in her cheek,
Just opening to the view.

Mallet.—Margaret’s Ghost, 3 Percy Rel. page 393.

BLOSSOM.—But, undisturb’d, they loiter life away,
So wither green, and blossom in decay.

Garth.—The Dispensary, Canto I. Line 138.

BLOT.—Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Waller.—On Roscommon’s Translation, De Arte Poetica.

Ev’n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,
The last and greatest art, the art to blot.

Pope.—To Augustus, Epistle I. Line 280.

Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,
One line, which dying he could wish to blot.

Lyttleton.—Prologue to Thomson’s Coriolanus, Line 23.

No song
Of mine, from youth to age, has left a stain
I would blot out.

Bowles.—Banwell Hill, Part V. Line 218.

It is a consolation that from youth to age, I have found no line I wished to blot, or departed a moment from the severer taste which I imbibed from the simplest and purest models of classical composition.

Bowles.—Advertisement to St. John in Patmos.

In morals blameless, as in manners meek,
He knew no wish that he might blush to speak.

Cowper.—To the Memory of Dr. Lloyd, Line 11.

BLOW.—I was most ready to return a blow,
And would not brook at all this sort of thing,
In my hot youth, when George the Third was king.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto I. Stanza 212.

BLUSH.— I will go wash;
And when my face is fair, you shall perceive
Whether I blush or no.

Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act I. Scene 9. (To his Generals.)

The rising blushes, which her cheek o’erspread,
Are opening roses in the lily’s bed.

Gay.—Dione, Act II. Scene 3.

The man that blushes, is not quite a brute.

Young.—Night VII. Line 496.

The blood within her crystal cheekes
Did such a colour drive,
As though the lillye and the rose
For mastership did strive.