Chapter BORROWER to BRAVE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto II. Stanza 23.

Yet who would be a boy, a girl again?

James Montgomery.—The Pelican Island, Canto 7.

I was the boy for bewitching ’em.

Kenney.—A Song in the opera of Matrimony, Act II. Scene 1.

BRAIN.—Thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,
Unmix’d with baser matter.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (Hamlet, obedient to his father’s command.)

The times have been,
That when the brains were out the man would die,
And there an end.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Macbeth, at sight of Banquo’s ghost.)

BRAINS.—An excellent scholar: One that hath a head fill’d with calves’ brains without any sage in them.

Webster.—The White Devil, Act I. Scene 1.

Cudgel thy brains no more about it; for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (First Clown to the second Clown.)

BRAVE.—How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country’s wishes blest!

Collins.—Ode written in 1746.

Brav’d in mine own house with a skein of thread!

Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act IV. Scene 3. (Petruchio to the Tailor.)