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

Anonymous.—Fair Rosamond, 2 Percy Rel. 156.

If blush thou must, then blush thou through
A lawn; that thou may’st look
As purest pearls, or pebbles do,
When peeping through a brook.

Herrick.—The Hesperides; To Julia, No. 70, Amatory Odes.

BLUSHED.—We griev’d, we sigh’d, we wept; we never blush’d before.

Cowley.—A Discourse by way of Vision, concerning Cromwell; the last line of the seventh verse of the rapture beginning “Curst be the man.”

BOAST.—Such is the Patriot’s boast, where’er we roam,
His first, best country, ever is at home.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 73.

’Tis mighty easy o’er a glass of wine
On vain refinements vainly to refine,
To laugh at poverty in plenty’s reign,
To boast of apathy when out of pain.

Churchill.—The Farewell, Line 47.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Young.—Night VIII. Line 509.

BOLD.—A bold bad man!

Spencer.—The Fairy Queen, Book I. Chap. I. Stanza 37.